Results 17,041-17,060 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated, we are in an invidious position in which we cannot really oppose this. If it stops even one eviction, it is better than allowing the eviction to take place. In a finance Bill, we would hope the Government would look for the best, most efficient and most sensible expenditure of public money. It is a pity that in order to deal with a problem that the Government failed to address...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Deputy Rabbitte speaking on the amendment?
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 70,000 people on the list.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A famous phrase.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are notes on it. On a point of order-----
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is. The amendment relates to an incentive for landlords to deal with the lack of social housing. That is what the Minister is bringing in. That is what it is about. I am pointing out that we would not even need this amendment-----
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am allowed to argue on the amendment.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am discussing the amendment.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the first time we have seen this amendment.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but it is something we are allowed to comment on.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am commenting on the amendment. This is the first-----
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This amendment is supposed to be an effort to address it. I am pointing out that it does not address it. It repeats the mistakes of the past. Having failed to do what was necessary to deal with the housing crisis, in other words, build council houses or control rents, we are left in the invidious position whereby the only proposal being put before the House is an amendment to give new tax...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am suggesting that is what the Minister should propose as an alternative to this amendment.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about the amendment.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am opposing the amendment.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am opposing the amendment. I am suggesting what the Minister should have done instead. In so far as it is supposed to deal with the issue of rent, a serious regime of rent control should have been introduced. For example, I will set out how it works in Scotland. Representatives from the local authority go to a property, measure it up and examine how it ticks various boxes, including...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are socialists.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are republican.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We oppose home taxes.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are dealing with the bitter fruit of the Government's abysmal failure to deal with the housing crisis over the past four years. There has been spectacular inaction by the Government as well as misguided policies, most notably the decision in the summer of 2011, months after the Government took office, to instruct local authorities that council housing construction was to cease for the...