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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What was not realistic about building council property on council land? Tell me what was unrealistic about it, Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish. That is absolute rubbish
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The numbers. It will wash its own face over the long term, as the Minister well knows, just as all council housing does. This is just playing politics while we have a disastrous situation in Dún Laoghaire.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Playing politics. That is what this is. This is too serious for games.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should abandon PPPs on public property. It is obvious that this approach takes longer because, rather than a council doing it itself or getting a contractor in to do it, public private partnership involves having to go through a tendering process, etc. That is why we are getting delays. We should stop. Another reason we get messes is because developers want to make money from PPPs....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that, by the way. I will say that.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They might have been subsidised prices here but they would have been charging us for the water. That is what people recognised. Setting aside all the disingenuous propaganda from the Government about the environmental reasons for bringing in water charges, people knew, and they were right, that the real agenda was to put a price tag on this in order that, at some point, someone could...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They would never do that, would they?
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should commence our contribution by taking a drink of water because the people who wanted to bring in water charges - Fianna Fáil first and then Fine Gael - wanted to put a price tag on this glass of water. In fact, there has been a running joke with the ushers here. Every time we have asked for a glass of water over the past four years, they have said, "Have a glass now before they...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly, although there probably would have been subsidised prices for water in the Dáil.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to formally move our amendment.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the important parts of the motion, which is included in our amendment as well, is to call this a national emergency and to declare a national emergency. I put that in all seriousness to the Minister. The type of dramatic, radical action that is necessary is simply not forthcoming. We talk about tweaking Rebuilding Ireland. While some of the measures the Minister has announced may...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish Water.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And ignored all the other advice.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not wish to spend much time on matters that have already been covered, such as the intricacies of medium-term objectives and the fiscal rules. I will concentrate on a view I hold and which was also expressed by a number of witnesses during our deliberations on the budget, which is that the fiscal space available, notwithstanding debates on whether we should recalculate it this or that...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about the financial cost of it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister compared, from a financial point of view, the efficiency of direct build as against HAPS? Direct build gives the State an asset and revenue stream, whereas the HAPS payment is money out that we do not recoup. Has the Minister done any mathematics on that? Again on housing and property, given the limited fiscal space and the need to raise revenue for housing and other...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister give us the answer to the financial question on the housing expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.