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- Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific plans she has to assist struggling small businesses, particularly in towns that have felt the adverse effects of the proliferation of large multinational retail chains; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22777/16]
- Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, who represents the constituency of Dún Laoghaire, will be acutely aware of the pressure on small and medium enterprises in Dún Laoghaire town and the huge number of businesses that have closed, leaving many shops vacant, which is a picture that is probably repeated in many towns around the country. While there are many factors involved, the most significant is the...
- Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many facets to the difficulties that small enterprise in towns and villages face, including parking charges, planning issues and the impact of recession in terms of cuts to people's income and so on. A significant factor in this regard is the impact of large multinational retail chains. These chains are draining people away from the small retail businesses in towns and villages. ...
- Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Only metaphorical ones.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not affect us. Workers have no country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We think people are entitled to have a Border poll if that is what they want. We have to listen to the people in the North as to whether that is what they want.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called "consultation". It is called "listening to people". It is a legitimate question but it does not help when Deputy Adams mischaracterises the position of People Before Profit.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He suggested we were opposed to a Border poll but we are not. It is one thing to have a Border poll but it is another thing to win it and there is no point in posturing about polls that one knows will not be won or will not even take place. James Connolly said the working class were the incorruptible fighters for Irish freedom. In saying this, he understood that unity meant having a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, is it that we are not getting to the other groupings?
- Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing I would like to believe more than that this plan will deliver. Everybody in this House wants to solve the problem, and how could they not, given the scale of hardship and suffering for homeless people in emergency accommodation or those who have been waiting on housing lists for 15 to 18 years with little or no hope of ever being housed? However, when one looks at the...
- Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not mention vulture funds specifically, but it talks about those who will build large-scale rental property. Those are the vulture funds, the people who bought up land and property and own it. The most telling confirmation that my assessment of this is right came when I asked the Taoiseach earlier today if he could tell me how many local authority houses would be built under the...
- Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Gino Kenny showed up. It is not in the report. The bulk of the report is about the housing assistance payment, HAP, and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. I disagree with the principle of HAP, but for the desperate people coming into my constituency office daily I would like to think I could say, "There you go. It's not a council house, but it's something." I can tell the...
- Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know from my own locality that they are not. I read these figures out the other day and will do so again. Even with the Minister's increased rent caps or HAP limits, rent levels in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown for a single one-bedroom dwelling are €1,800 per month, which is double the Minister's limit. Why would a private landlord enter into an arrangement with the Minister for a...
- Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just gave them to the Minister - build council houses.
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in his deliberations on the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour, he will be taking into account the series of questions that were raised with his predecessor with regard to anomalies in payments to the chief executive and a board member of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the five years of the last Dáil I asked a litany of questions about what I consider to be serious concerns about the corporate governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Payments of expenses to directors turned out to be irregular and where the money was supposed to be refunded, it was not. Extra payments were made to the CEO and the saga of questions goes on. I am not sure if...
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister needs to look into the issue of whether there are court proceedings. My understanding is that there is none. The Minister is being told a porky. He should simply ask the company if there is a court date and if an actual court hearing is due. He will find out there is not, so they are not telling the truth. That is my understanding and the matter needs to be checked. ...
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, the operating loss, not to mind the huge increase in losses, is equivalent to the excessive salaries, fees and expenses that are being paid to an executive that has essentially run this company into the ground. That in itself, on a financial basis, is the reason for its dissolution and the need for it to be put under council control. In that way, we can have some real oversight...
- Other Questions: Road Improvement Schemes (19 Jul 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It was my pen.