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Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then we will speak after him.

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:To insert the following after "orders made on persons previously convicted of offences.":"— ensure that any inquiry should extend to the information-sharing systems between the Garda, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the courts; — ensure that any inquiry should extend to the information-sharing systems within the judicial system; and —...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate, particularly those who are supporting the motion. Earlier, I should have thanked Mr. Mel Reynolds and Ms Orla Hegarty for the briefing they gave us. Many of the facts and some of the ideas in the motion came from them and the Government should start listening to them. To be honest, apart from the brief attempt to engage with the matters by...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sharing is caring.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:notes that:— the worsening shortage of social and affordable housing and emergency accommodation in Ireland now constitutes a national emergency; — almost 10,000 people are living in emergency accommodation and 144,000 applicants are on housing waiting lists, including the Rental Accommodation Scheme and Housing Assistance Payment...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report June 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Coffey is saying that we should have a rainy day fund as a countercyclical buffer. He assumes that there is a cycle. Where does he think we are in the cycle? It is ten years since the last downturn. I think we are a lot closer to another downturn than people are projecting. Where does Mr. Coffey think we are in the cycle? Realistically, how much of a buffer can we create given what...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report June 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, Donald Rumsfeld. It is a known unknown and we know what we have to do to guard against its potential impact, that is no hard borders and as little friction between ourselves and Britain as possible. At least we know what we have to do. What do we have to do to protect against the possible dangers of a downturn? From where are those dangers likely to come? To me, where we should gear...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report June 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a way Mr. Coffey has hit the nail on the head. He is asking for a rational central scenario-type approach. The evidence is that is not actually how things work in this economy. Frankly, I think that it is fairly dramatic irrational movements of capital that decide when a downturn comes. We should behave rationally, but we know that capital does not behave rationally. What can we do to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's legislative priorities. [25390/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the NESC, a number of the appointments to that body have not yet been filled. Are they to be filled and does the Taoiseach know by whom they will be filled? I particularly urge the appointment to those vacant positions of people who have ideas on how to deal with the current housing and homelessness crisis. The NESC recently published a report on the property sector. Is there...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should support the Private Members' motion today.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might point me to the nonsense.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss the issue of multinational tax evasion with the Belgian Prime Minister? I say that because it was reported late last year that $221 billion worth of profits were shifted offshore from Belgium to tax havens around the world, which is obviously a matter of very serious concern to the tax authorities. That equates to about half of Belgium's GDP. We might be...

Questions - Ceisteanna: Brexit Issues (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [22709/18]

Questions - Ceisteanna: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Chancellor Merkel since the last EU Council meeting. [23580/18]

Questions - Ceisteanna: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings he attended in Sofia, Bulgaria. [23581/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Ms Leilani Farha and Ms Julieta Perucca for their presentations. I thank Mr. David Joyce, Ms Sinead Kerin and others from the Mercy Law Resource Centre for their great work, as well as for often looking at and assisting with the cases that flow through my door of people facing the consequences of the current housing crisis. I thank Ms Leilani Farha for her intervention over the past...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I love it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Right to Housing: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what one wants to see.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Merger (12 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the transfer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25417/18]