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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not agree with that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As equals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have 50% social and affordable on all developments, as we have asked for.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have 50% social and affordable of all housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seven months of public outrage and protests have finally forced the Government to recognise the state of Palestine. I hope that is going to be accompanied by sanctions. I wish to discuss another protest that will happen this Saturday at the Customs House over the Government’s failed housing policies. This comes at an appropriate moment, given that the Housing Commission has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has probably read it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not had a chance yet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government gave it to the press, not to us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For those who are not convinced by the Taoiseach's answer, the housing protest will be outside Customs House at 2.30 p.m. this Saturday. I hope people will come out onto the streets for it. No one disputes that there will be a private sector in housing, but the private sector should not be subsidised at the expense of delivering the social and affordable housing that it is incapable of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been phoning the journalist to try to get it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chair. I appreciate it as unfortunately, I am not a member of the committee. I thank everyone for their contributions. I did not hear everybody but I got the general gist and I have read through bits of the submissions. One word that has been repeated here is “certainty” and the need for certainty. I would certainly appreciate that sentiment. Something that...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. My point is that if we are going to have certainty across the board, there must be balance across the whole industry. I am very interested in what Ms Honan said about retaining the intellectual property. I would like her to elaborate on that. I am not quite sure what she means. I am particularly interested in it because I know the actors and performers have been asking...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just one question was not answered though. There are things we agree on, but what about the things we do not agree on? If the witnesses are rightly asking for certainty, why are members of SPI so unwilling to give that certainty to their crew? To put it bluntly, why do they not want to give the same certainty that they are looking for from Government funding to their crew in terms of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would only say, and I am sure the Chair will indulge me, that this is chicken and egg stuff. We are not going to progress unless we get over this chicken and egg. First, state aid is dependent on a permanent pool of people. Yes, it is project to project, but let us be honest; the producer companies are there all the time. Some may go in and out but they are there all the time. They...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9 o’clock The vacant homes tax is a failure. We learned at the beginning of this year that only €2 million was raised from it and it applied to less than 3,500 properties. That is against a background where the census showed 160,000 vacant residential dwellings, 48,000 of which were vacant in both the 2016 census and the 2022 census. We then have about 20,000 derelict...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has just confirmed how much of a failure the vacant homes tax is in the context of tens and tens of thousands of vacant properties. Of course, I am for being fair to people where there is a good reason but there should be an imperative to say that by hook or by crook, this house will be brought back into use. It is obscene for that not to be the case. Yes, if somebody has a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering further taxation measures to address the issues of long-term vacancy, dereliction, land hoarding and property speculation in light of the severe housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23005/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most obscene aspects of the absolutely dire housing and homelessness situation we face in this country is the phenomenon of people being homeless, being crammed into overcrowded conditions and being hopeless about the possibility of ever owning their own home or getting a social house while you can see vacant property, derelict sites and speculators sitting on land or property to...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Housing Commission has simply confirmed what the dogs in the street know, namely that the Government's housing policy is an absolutely disastrous failure. The catalogue of human misery that this failure is visiting on thousands of individuals, families and children should be well known to the Minister of State if he is knocking on doors. He could not possibly miss it, because house...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I asked for this debate on the housing emergency weeks ago. I have been given four and a half minutes and the Minister has just left the Chamber. It sums up my frustration in trying to get across to the Government what an absolutely disastrous situation we are facing. The human misery that people are suffering because of this housing crisis never fails to shock me. Anybody who has...