Results 10,941-10,960 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not address the Deputy's arguments about holding the Bill hostage.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Taoiseach's Minister of State and his Chairman.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has nothing to do with Members from the Taoiseach's party or with his Ministers. Will the Taoiseach give us a break?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those Senators were not even there for the debate.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the number is small, where the hell did this come from? I will tell the Minister where it came from. It came from a rotten prejudice that was expressed by Owen Keegan at the weekend in his disgraceful interview with The Sunday Business Post.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He said it publicly.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He said homeless accommodation was attractive to people and was a magnet, an absolutely outrageous statement he made in public, an insult to people who are stuck in homelessness. This betrays a rotten attitude. If it is a small number, where did it come from? It is to divert attention away from the real problem. One year is enough punishment. I have met people who are faced with that one...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Choice-based letting.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reports he is considering changing the rules in relation to offers of accommodation to social housing applicants which may result in an applicant being suspended from the list if they refuse two offers of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8178/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most unpalatable aspects of the shameful housing and homelessness crisis is the attempt by officials and by Government to blame the people who are the victims of the housing crisis. We saw an instance of that with Mr. Owen Keegan's comments at the weekend when he said that homeless accommodation was somehow "attractive" to people. Another aspect of this is the suggestion that has...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolute disgrace but it is typical of a Government trying to divert attention away from its failure to provide public and affordable housing and to essentially blame the victims. I will take one of the administrative areas the Minister is talking about. My administrative area stretches from Little Bray to Sandyford. Let us imagine someone has been on the housing list for 15...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the thresholds for entitlement to social housing will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8177/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The interview with Owen Keegan, CEO of Dublin City Council, the biggest local and housing authority in the country, in The Sunday Business Post on the housing and homelessness crisis was, to some extent, very revealing, to a large extent, absolutely shocking, and, to a significant extent, absolutely unacceptable. I want to know what the Taoiseach thinks of his comments. They come as part of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with that? A small proportion-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It demonstrates a rotten attitude by the authorities that are supposed to be dealing with this housing and homelessness crisis. Mr. Keegan admitted that the private sector was failing but then went on to say that we have to rely on the private sector and that our homelessness services are so wonderful they are acting as a magnet. It is not on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic division of his Department. [7979/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are critical of all those regimes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those regimes are not supported by my party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to Northern Ireland and the meetings he attended. [6710/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One unfortunate mantra the Taoiseach has continued to trot out, which we have just heard from Deputy Micheál Martin, is the notion that the renewable heat incentive scandal was some sort of little Mickey Mouse issue that should not have been of concern.