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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of my amendments was ruled out of order. It would affect the Title because it would be a substantial provision in the Bill. There is a big problem with new tenancies and the setting of their rents which neither current nor proposed legislation deals with. For a brand new tenancy the rent can be set at any level at all. We can see that rents are being set at extortionate levels. There...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, well done.

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, we will have three and a half minutes each. The most important thing one can say to people who are angry and frustrated about the worsening and ongoing housing crisis is that they should come out onto the streets for the Raise the Roof demonstration on 18 May. People are sick and tired of the discussion here and the failure of the Government to address the problem. Just as we defeated...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For several years I have asked repeatedly for the income thresholds for social housing to be increased. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has promised repeatedly that they will be reviewed. The failure of the Government to honour its promise to do so is resulting in a cull of working people from housing lists. For example, I have written to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been hearing that for years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Time, time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The top news item today is that there is a major investigation into a loan of €100,000 by John Delaney to the Football Association of Ireland. It is currently being explored at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport. Each year, approximately €100 million in loans and tax relief goes to the Irish film industry. Very serious issues are being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will put it very simply for the Minister. I appreciate that the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, has agreed to meet me and film workers next week, as well as the engagement of the Department of Finance and Revenue. However, I wish to put certain points to the Minister. I challenge her to find one film worker with a contract of indefinite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have refused to come in.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aerfoirt Réigiúnacha (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aerfoirt Réigiúnacha (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. The Acting Chairman is suggesting the Minister just give her response, after which I will ask her supplementary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether the current method of providing public funding for the film industry is the most appropriate for delivering quality employment and training in the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16760/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 21 February 2019, if she will report on the membership and work programme of the Audiovisual High Level Steering Group; her views on the way in which the group will help to resolve the ongoing disputes and issues across the film industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to allegations of blacklisting of workers in the film industry that have raised questions in relation to employment rights and abuses of public funding in the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16757/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Employment Rights (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she plans to take to improve income and employment security for workers in theatre, film and the arts in general; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16758/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: ESRI Report on Ireland and Brexit: Discussion (10 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How granular is the analysis of the various impacts, primarily negative, as the witnesses have described, but also the potential positives in terms of different sectors? Deputy Chambers asked about different regions. How would different sectors be impacted, negatively or positively? Without in any way underestimating the difficulties all of this poses, and I imagine that the sectors that...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made most of the points I want to make about Brexit in the earlier engagement, but I will summarise briefly. It is very welcome and long overdue that Prime Minister Theresa May has moved away from trying to engage or have reason to prevail with the headbangers on the Tory right like Mr. Boris Johnson, MP; Mr. Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP, and the European Research Group, ERG. They are driven by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe any clarity is required on the DUP's position, and I disagree with the leader of Fianna Fáil. The raison d'êtreof the DUP is to maintain political sectarianism, even if it has self-defeating consequences and leads to a hard border or something else. We could more usefully talk about the social and economic transformation of this island in a progressive direction...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland on 1 March 2019. [15043/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Chancellor Merkel. [16402/19]