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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, and they might have it but if not, they can pass them on to me. They are still relevant questions. To meet that demand which, in total, depending on how the figure is calculated, will be approximately 5,000 households in real terms over the next few years, and to reduce those waiting lists, we would have to have a considerably higher level of delivery than we have currently. I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask a brief supplementary question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know there were a lot of questions, so I am not criticising witnesses for not giving an answer. However it is worth getting an answer to dramatise the problem we are facing with waiting times in Dún Laoghaire, because they are shocking. A wait of eight years is shocking. That relates to the question about the plans for direct public housing provision by the local authority itself....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman for answering my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman always answers my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is Ms Keenan discussing with the NDFA? She and I can sit down and have a discussion now. It takes an hour or two. We have our discussion and then move on. What is the sticking point with the NDFA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but it has to be turning on the question of affordability and how one pays for affordability given the market prices. Ms Keenan is saying we have go to PPPs. If we do not like it, what does that mean? What does that consideration involve? If it were just about building the houses, it would just be a matter of our going to the Department to outline our scheme and ask for the money for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Accidents (17 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a person (details supplied) who is a survivor of the MV Kilkenny collision in Dublin Bay in 1991 could get a copy of their ticket and high speed rescue certificate. [42678/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because they put profit before health.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (16 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [39828/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (16 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic division of his Department. [41814/18]

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I came into the House with an open mind. I do not have evidence to question the integrity of former Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, but what the Taoiseach has revealed about private meetings between the former Minister and Mr. McCourt means there was no doubt but that he had to resign. It is somewhat shocking that it has taken until now to reveal that these meetings took place. Despite...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The resignation of the Minister, Deputy Naughten, is the crescendo of a totally failed and shambolic process of privatisation of a key infrastructural project for the State. He made reference during his resignation speech to the fact the Taoiseach did not have confidence in him. If that is the case, the Taoiseach needs to come in immediately to give us his side of the story. Why did he not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In recent months, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has advertised that employees who feel they may be victims of bogus self-employment practices should report that, which is welcome. It has been a long time coming because such practices are widespread, particularly in the construction industry. Does the Government have any intention, in the forthcoming Industrial...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I take this opportunity to offer my condolences and sympathies to the family of Emma Mhic Mhathúna on the day of her funeral. I was unable to attend the service this morning as I had to attend a centenary celebration for the victims of the RMS Leinsterin Dún Laoghaire. All of us across the country owe her a debt of gratitude for her courage and bravery in speaking out about...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Lahart. The problem is that the respect of the Government only extends to what it considers to be the political establishment. It does not extend to forces outside of this establishment even though on many of critical issues that are facing this country right now those who are not part of the establishment have played a key role in trying to mobilise forces to offer...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, possibly the longest in the history of the world. We have emergency legislation in an economy that is recording record growth rates, where the Government is boasting about the level of economic growth and where corporate profits have doubled since the Government came into power from €77 billion to €144 billion. Some people in the economy are doing well but still it...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and not to the monocultural industrial model, which is damaging the environment. The extra money is welcome but a radical change in policy is needed. A key area where the Government could do something to address emissions is public transport but there is nothing radical or changing in the budget. Even with the small bit of additional funding, there will be significantly fewer...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with an absolutely shameful housing and homelessness emergency, a crumbling health service which is inflicting such hardship and suffering on so many of those who use it, a climate emergency that is galloping towards us, a further education system that is in dire need of investment as our universities tumble in the world rankings, and in a society that is marked by some of the greatest...