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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Other schools do not want them. We need to look into this and change the model based on need.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the schools.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not all of them.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies, I need the A, B, C, Ladybird guide here.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Genuinely, I want to understand it absolutely. Section 219, I accept, has a hell of a lot more detail in terms of housing strategy. The local authority will produce a housing development strategy, which is slightly more high level and then it will also do a housing strategy. Why is it replicating? I struggling to understand why it is replicating.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless I am missing something, it seems like needless replication.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not quite understand why you develop a more detailed strategy and subsequently a less detailed strategy.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, please. In terms of putting together the housing development strategy, currently the Bill states "The housing development strategy may ... indicate in respect of any particular area referred to in paragraph (a) that there is no requirement for housing referred to in subsection (6) of section 219 in respect of that area, or that a lower percentage than that specified in the housing...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan for supporting my amendments. The Government should accept the amendments and the rationale behind them. This is not about whether we agree or disagree about Part V. I am absolutely happy with it, and said so in the introduction, and further on, I have amendments that seek to increase the proportion of Part V of social and affordable housing...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 381: In page 105, to delete lines 35 to 39.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 370: In page 103, to delete lines 34 to 38.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to improve the reliability of Dublin Bus services in general and routes operated by a company (details supplied) in particular; the extent to which he believes the reliability issues are connected to the difficulties in recruiting drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13254/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (21 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether it is appropriate that the new taxi regulator recently appointed has come directly from employment in a senior position with a taxi app company that has a commercial interest in the taxi industry; his further views on whether this represents a potential conflict of interest; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach rejected our call, and the call of huge numbers of people across the world, to boycott Joe Biden because of his complicity with the genocidal massacre that Israel is committing and the fact that he has armed Israel to the teeth and enabled it to commit that massacre. Did the Taoiseach ask him to stop arming Israel? Mary Robinson echoed the calls of millions of people...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his joint correspondence, along with the Spanish Prime Minister, to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the situation in Gaza. [10615/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am putting up my hand.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Other Deputies who did not table questions have spoken. Can I not-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Having submitted a question, seriously?