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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem with all this is it is predicated on the idea that if one increases supply it will help resolve the crisis. If we increase supply but the supply is unaffordable it will not resolve the crisis it will make the crisis worse. That is the basic point I put to the Minister of State and he did not really answer it. We had supply at a very high level before the crash but it was...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State saying that prices went down pre-2008?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pre-2008, housing supply and house prices went up.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the question. Does the Minister of State acknowledge that as supply ramped up in the years prior to 2008, prices went up rather than down and we then went over a cliff?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The sector took the rest of the economy with it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to make pretty much the same point. I find difficulty even at local authority level for the same reasons of trying to find out the details of Part V arrangements between the local authority and the private developers in terms of the 10% or, as it was previously with the affordable element, the 20%. One cannot get sight of these things. One does not know exactly what the arrangements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Palestinian Refugees in the Near East and Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar: Discussion (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise if the witnesses have commented on this already. Israel has favoured trade status with the European Union through the Euro-Mediterranean association agreements and witnesses may be aware there have been loud calls from those who support the plight of the Palestinians that the agreement should be suspended because of the systematic breaches of human rights and international law by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE is putting into place in case of supply issues with products sourced from the UK following the UK's departure from the EU in particular for children with rare diseases such as PKU (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38152/18]

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill is apparently technical in nature. I got a call last week asking if I would have a problem with this Bill going through the Dáil without debate. I said I did have a problem with it going through without debate because it deals with two issues that are of considerable importance to the people of this country. One of these issues is the local property tax, a tax which,...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time am I supposed to have?

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I did not know Deputy Mick Barry was speaking. I am sorry. It is very important to flag this. It is very strange that it is hidden in a housing building finance initiative Bill. I do not quite know why it cannot go in the Finance Bill. It is a bit odd. The property tax has proven to be unfair and it continues to be unfair. The other great justification for it at the time was...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most people would welcome more frequent buses on main bus corridors, cycling infrastructure, orbital routes and so on. In many other areas, however, this plan should not be called BusConnects but "BusDisconnects". We have engaged with people in our communities about this. I have a list of the 2,700 submissions we have so far collected from people who are furious, worried, anxious and angry...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council for its presentation and its insights. On the housing issue and the references to overheating, are the witnesses saying that it would be perfectly okay to dramatically ramp up the provision of housing as long as it is not based on increasing the deficit or, for example, dramatic increases in tax revenue from other sectors of the economy? If that is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can help with that conundrum. Most of the construction workers that could be building houses are working as taxi drivers because the pay in construction is too low. If pay and security of employment in construction were better they would move out of taxi driving into construction. Also, there would be no requirement for new houses because they are already living here. When talking about...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps it is straying into policy but a report produced by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform confirmed a concern that had been raised by many members about the unsustainable cost of financing public housing output by leasing or renting social housing from the private sector. Mel Reynolds has recently said that even if Rebuilding Ireland targets were met in this way we could be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To continue on the housing issue, and I accept the witnesses cannot discuss the policy and the structures, but from the point of view of overheating and the macroeconomic questions that are the council's remit, if the council sees a threat of overheating is it the council's responsibility to warn the Government about it? It is indisputable that the price of accommodation in the private...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to put in place to ensure that local bus services will not be undermined, affecting the elderly, disabled and most vulnerable with the new plans for BusConnects from the NTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37720/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (19 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress of plans to transfer Dún Laoghaire Harbour to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. [37721/18]

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will share time with Deputy Coppinger and we will each have five minutes. Solidarity-People before Profit will be supporting this legislation and the plan to remove references to blasphemy from the Constitution. It should be obvious why we must do it. It is a relic of an old Ireland that we need to leave behind because the special relationship - to use a phrase the Taoiseach used recently...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I condemn, unreservedly, any threat or use of violence against anybody by anybody, be it against gardaí or against protesters. Will the Taoiseach condemn the use of actual violence - not threatened violence - against wholly peaceful protesters? Some of the protesters were hospitalised with concussion, cuts and bruises or had to get stitches as a result of the violence of hooded...