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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And we did it. Did we not do that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of that will come as cold comfort to Niamh and Anthony, for example, in the homeless hub in my area. They have two children and have now spent 20 months, two Christmases, homeless, and their biggest fear is that they will still be homeless next Christmas. It will come as cold comfort to Jennifer, who is in one bedroom with her two kids. She went on the housing list in 2008, the council...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [10626/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the former Taoiseach's visit to Washington on St. Patrick’s Day. [17961/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of the people who believes Leo Varadkar should not have gone to meet Joe Biden. Biden has said on several occasions throughout his career the following words: “If there were not an Israel, we'd have to invent one”. In those words, he revealed the true nature of the relationship between the United States and the crimes that Israel has committed against the Palestinian...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and our Malaysian colleagues for those kind words. The abuse, neglect, beating and mistreatment by tens of thousands of children by church-run institutions in this country over decades with the collusion or facilitation of the State is a dark chapter of shame in the history of our country. Thousands and thousands of people who survived those industrial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development Bill that would increase the amount of social and affordable housing we get from developments. Currently, as the Taoiseach is aware, we get 10%, or more recently, we may get 10% affordable housing. That means 80% of what is being built is unaffordable. We proposed, like other places such as Austria, that we would increase it to 50%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: An international panel convened by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has just produced a report - they are in Dublin - saying that the Irish State had failed to properly investigate a series of deadly attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in Ireland in the early and mid-1970s including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. They particularly castigated the failure of the Garda and the State to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [17960/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach taking the people of this country for fools when he suggests that his plan to dismantle the triple lock is not a full attack on Ireland's neutrality? Whenever he attempts to justify this move he is planning on the triple lock, he refers to Russia. Of course, we all condemn Russia's attack on Ukraine as an indefensible occupation and military aggression. However, at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent visit to Paris. [15146/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cherrywood is the biggest residential the biggest residential development in the country. It is a new town with more than 8,000 apartments and houses. There are probably between 25,000 and 30,000 people living there. Many apartments and houses are being built and millions of euro of public money has gone into it but Hines, the wealth asset management company and main developer, has given...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know what the Government can do to intervene in this situation to ensure the developer, which has made a lot of money out of that development, delivers the town centre as it was supposed to do.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The International Court of Justice, ICJ, concluded earlier this year that Israel was plausibly committing genocide against the people of Gaza. Yesterday the Government of the United States of America made a decision to give €13 billion to a State that is plausibly - and in my opinion undoubtedly - guilty of genocide. Thousands more people have died since the ICJ ruling. Does the...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think Deputy Smith is not coming in. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this important motion. People Before Profit strongly believes we should abolish the means test for carer's allowance. Indeed, we are against means testing full stop. I will talk a bit more about that. In the case of carers, it is completely unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of people in this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are dealing with a housing emergency. Most people recognise that. I hope the Government does. We need to dramatically increase the amount of housing we build, in particular social and affordable housing. Recently, Goodbody Stockbrokers produced a report showing that there are only five builders in this country capable of building more than 500 houses per year while the majority of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not suspicious. I can just see the facts for myself, as can everyone else, including the builders. Even they are saying this. We cannot deliver the necessary housing. Cairn Homes has said it. Goodbody Stockbrokers have said it. Builders do not have the capacity. By the way, they are not in the business of producing subsidised housing. They do not do that. What they are...