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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is connected to that point. If people decide to build-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is my point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just before he does, that is the point I am getting at, namely, units at €400,000. When I met the Hines guys - sorry mentioned them aloud - they said it was going to cost them €400,000 to build the apartments. I asked myself what was the point in that. Some would ask, and perhaps Mr. Reynolds could elaborate on this, whether the developers have any interest in building anything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask one brief supplementary question because I am nearly out of time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a question for Professor Drudy and one last question to Mr. Reynolds and to Deputy Wallace.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is two, but they are both the same question. On the need for cost rental council housing, with which we all agree, what is Professor Drudy's view on the issue of income thresholds for council housing? Many of us have argued that the thresholds need to be raised. Should there be any thresholds? It drives one group into being social housing people and others are above that. All...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not a brick is being laid in this town.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He said "in this town". Not a brick is being laid.
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for missing the earlier part of the debate. I was at a committee meeting, not that it ever bothers the Taoiseach when he walks out while we are speaking, even when we have been here since the beginning.
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach again today took an opportunity to raise the spectre of populism and particularly had a go at what he described as "the far left populists" in this country. This common theme is repeated and has become a theme throughout Europe. This term is being used as a way of failing to understand the very serious political dangers and threats arising in Europe. It was not an amorphous...
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was fascist right-wing-----
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. Extreme nationalists.
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas Cheann-Chomhairle.
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This failure to distinguish extreme right-wing politics with racism at its heart and what it did to Europe in the 1930s and to throw that accusation at others comes at a time when our own Government is in a political alliance with the most dangerous manifestation of crypto-fascist extreme right racist, Islamophobic politics in the entirety of Europe, in the form of Viktor Orbán, a person...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The populists are for public consultation.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree, but when people make decisions the Taoiseach does not like, he calls it populism.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with Prime Minister May. [13971/19]
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously we hope that a deal might be done to resolve this matter, but we do not know if it will be done. Did the Taoiseach have any discussions with Theresa May about her view of what Britain intends to do in the event of no deal? The Taoiseach has said he is not making preparations. I welcome that because he should not. I am not so sure about the EU's intentions in that regard if there...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even Jacob Rees-Mogg and his gang are willing to jettison the North for their own parochial purposes.