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- Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to divest from fossil fuels and invest in stuff that-----
- Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about divesting ISIF money-----
- Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is totally relevant, in fairness, a Cheann Comhairle. Where do we invest ISIF money if we do not invest it in fossil fuels? We want to invest ISIF money, NTMA money and public money in things that will help to deal with climate change, because this is about dealing with climate change. I am simply pointing out that one way we could do that is by investing in forestry. It is...
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It could be done in the Seanad.
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know if the Minister was referring to me in terms of the personalised remarks-----
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but I want to stress I was not being personal. From the point of view of the issue at stake, the amendment is indefensible because it fails to identify, as did the Minister in her response, what mechanism will be in place, if this amendment is passed, to protect against an employer deciding to victimise a part-time existing employee by not giving him or her the additional hours because...
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's position on this is indefensible. In putting forward this amendment she has failed to explain how she will protect workers from victimisation. If this amendment is passed there is absolutely nothing to prevent an employer from making a decision not to give additional hours that might be available to existing part-time employees if the employer is irritated by the fact that...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I worry about the constant use of terms like "prudence", "fear of over-heating", "caution" and so on. Does the Minister not believe the greatest challenges facing us now from a social and economic point of view include, at the top of the list, housing? This is now a severe crisis that is making it impossible for people to live here, especially young people. In consequence, we have to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While keeping on the housing thread, I will speak about one other significant bugbear. Every publically-built house that remains in public ownership requires an initial capital cost but then revenue starts to come back. In other words, that revenue replaces current expenditure, which is now going out in housing assistance payments or rental accommodation scheme payments, with a capital...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chair. I will continue on the housing vein. Given we all accept there may be capacity problems in ramping up the construction sector, what measures does the Minister intend to take to ensure no housing is built that is surplus to requirements and that the housing that is built is the housing we need, that is, is affordable housing? I know of a number of estates that are being...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I did not hear the Minister's answer. Could he repeat it, please?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if they cost €800,000.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will ask again. I have asked already about Orbán as well and about the rise of racist and far-right forces, of which he is one of the most prominent. In the same comments with regard to Orbán's racist agenda, the Taoiseach said we have to respect that other countries come from a different perspective. Does the Taoiseach regret that? The Helsinki committee said this was very...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The report I mentioned shows it is really diabolical and worsening throughout the European Union.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not give an inch to racism – not one of them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why I mentioned housing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the most recent European Council meeting. [29396/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to raise the issue of housing conditions in the inner city. Recently I was contacted by residents in the south inner city complaining about the chronic damp conditions in their flat complexes, which they have been suffering for long periods of time. There is absolutely no doubt that in areas of big disadvantage the issue of housing is desperate. It has knock-on effects for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that he spoke to Jean-Claude Juncker and used the phrase, "strengthening the external borders of the EU", which has been used regularly at recent meetings. I want to interrogate what he is talking about and what it means. I will put it bluntly and dramatically, and also accurately. European leaders, including the Taoiseach, unfortunately, are sleep-walking back into the...