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- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I do not.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What I care about is something that is lacking in the Bill but is contained in our amendments - affordability. I emphasise affordability, because it does not feature anywhere in the Bill-----
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or in the amendments, or in any of the Minister's proposals to deal with the rental sector. Is it affordable? Before the Minister allows for these 4% increases, which he is crowing is some type of unique unprecedented intervention in the market, the current rents in the areas he refers to are unaffordable for the majority of people. He simply has not addressed that. I raised this...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is difficult to contribute to the debate, given the-----
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for making light of the comment, but it is a serious comment. We are having to deal with a rake of last-minute complex amendments dealing with a range of complex issues and then amendments to amendments. Whatever way one looks at it, it is not the way to deal with an issue of such importance. Added to that is the backroom or side-room dealing of Fianna Fáil...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am merely saying the net effect of this is making a charade of the most critical issue facing this country and tens of thousands of people, and I fundamentally object. I have literally dragged myself out of my sick bed because I consider this so important. Really, we should not be dealing with this issue in this way. However, I will have no choice but to move our amendment to the...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true and I will explain why later.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Which amendments are these?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The only certainty the Government is offering is the certainty of unaffordable rents, more evictions and exorbitant, extortionate profits for landlords. The Minister thinks that for people who currently cannot pay existing rents, a 12% increase over the next three years will somehow provide them with some type of comfort or certainty. It will offer them nothing but the prospect of eviction...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am telling the Tánaiste that they cannot afford those rents.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The evictions and hopelessness will continue.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Tánaiste that both her party and Fianna Fáil have been involved in an utterly despicable and dishonest charade around the issue of rents that impacts upon the well-being of tens of thousands of people affected by the rental crisis. Precisely 10,000 renters in crisis situations contacted Government agencies between June and December this year, due to plans by...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let the House decide.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We object fundamentally to this change in the Order. It is absolutely unacceptable. It was agreed at the Business Committee and there is a widespread expectation in the House and beyond that a Bill dealing with the disastrous rental crisis will conclude in the Dáil today and that we will sit for as long as it takes to conclude that Bill. Moreover, the expectation was that the issue of...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me?
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply pointing out the expectation inside and outside the House. Instead, all of that will be scuppered because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are rowing over how much profit landlords should make out of this entire situation. That is totally unacceptable.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We oppose the Government proposal. There has to be a vote on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America. [38631/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Support Programme (14 Dec 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if persons availing of CET childcare, in particular new entrants onto the scheme, will not pay any extra for childcare in 2017 and in 2018 than they did in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40174/16]