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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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----of HAP and RAS, which, I put to the Minister, is massaging the figures.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The number of people in emergency accommodation has quadrupled. We have the shocking obscenity of children and families in growing numbers in emergency accommodation.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That policy has failed, and unless the Taoiseach addresses it and stops with policies that continue to hand over billions of euro in tax breaks to private speculators and landlords for land, property and cash, as the Government is proposing to do again with the land development agency-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----it will never solve this crisis and it will continue to get worse.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not fair.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 3 October the National Homeless and Housing Coalition, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, housing non-governmental organisations, NGOs, such as the Peter McVerry Trust, Simon Communities and Focus Ireland and housing activist groups such as Take Back the City and many others are calling for a major national demonstration at Leinster House to demand emergency measures to deal with the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to stop issuing further licences for the exploration of petroleum in view of the fact that Dáil Éireann is in the process of legislating to ban such licences under the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis. [37540/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [37542/18]