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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Ó Broin has set out the case and, while he was not here, I was defending his amendment for similar reasons. He has elaborated more. One other example, and I do not know if it is covered by Deputy Ó Broin's amendment, though it is in the same territory, strikes me because it is such a big, strategically important site. At the moment, it would seem that, on planning grounds,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not spoken to amendment No. 907 yet. Should I do that now?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know, and I will try to get back for 6 p.m., but that is not guaranteed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to get back for 6 p.m., but I may be under pressure.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I will speak briefly to Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 909. I sympathise with what he is trying to do. This is particularly about dealing with the problem of institutional investors - vulture funds, cuckoos or whatever - buying up everything. That is a problem. One thing Deputy O'Callaghan might consider - I am not sure of the answer - is that I am also in favour of, and have in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very good, I wanted to clarify that. My amendment No. 907 would nicely dovetail with Deputy O'Callaghan's because the net result would be that we would get rid of vulture and cuckoo funds. My amendment proposes that the Part VII requirement, which used to be Part V, would not be 20% but 50% of social and affordable. My amendment proposes that, "In page 405... subject to subsection (12), a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, on this but would like to hear the Government's response or some kind of response. Amendment No. 913 proposes a minimum requirement of 20% social housing and 30%, on top of that, social and affordable housing in all developments. We propose the Part V social and affordable obligation, which is 10% social and 10% affordable, goes up to 50%,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment would make it an obligation. The Minister of State is saying that local authorities or the LDA higher can go higher; I am saying they must. The amendment would make it a requirement that they go higher and that it goes up to 50%. It is interesting the constitutional issue has raised its head in this debate. One of the demands of Raise the Roof, which has been a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever way you want to put it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At 4 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in terms of the housing need of the area.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to bear with me. There is a reason that is put in there, and it is a good reason, namely that segregation is not good. For years and years, planners and all sorts of people have been saying we have to deal with segregation and we need a more socially and environmentally sustainable form of planning and development that does not lead to segregation. That is why this is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know but I am just-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, we finish at 5 p.m., and I have a couple of amendments I want to get on the record during this grouping - amendment No. 907 in particular.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You could not make this stuff up. An open letter has gone around to the Taoiseach and all Deputies in this House to protest to the German ambassador about that suppression of free discussion and freedom of assembly. I encourage Members to sign that letter.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there to be no answer for me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the conference in Germany.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [15145/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be another national demonstration this Saturday in support of the people of Gaza and Palestine. The very simple demand will be for sanctions on Israel now. The simple inescapable fact is that the genocide that Israel is inflicting on Gaza and the horrors that have been inflicted on its people could not happen if Israel did not get EU favoured trade status, weapons from Germany,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The National Youth Council of Ireland, NYCI ,report suggests that half of young people are very unhappy with their housing situation and more than half feel their mental health is seriously being affected by this issue. They have good reason to feel that way. I will give two examples. This week, I met a family who are being evicted. They are a working family who got a notice to quit on...