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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment would make it an obligation. The Minister of State is saying that local authorities or the LDA higher can go higher; I am saying they must. The amendment would make it a requirement that they go higher and that it goes up to 50%. It is interesting the constitutional issue has raised its head in this debate. One of the demands of Raise the Roof, which has been a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever way you want to put it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At 4 p.m.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in terms of the housing need of the area.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to bear with me. There is a reason that is put in there, and it is a good reason, namely that segregation is not good. For years and years, planners and all sorts of people have been saying we have to deal with segregation and we need a more socially and environmentally sustainable form of planning and development that does not lead to segregation. That is why this is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know but I am just-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, we finish at 5 p.m., and I have a couple of amendments I want to get on the record during this grouping - amendment No. 907 in particular.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You could not make this stuff up. An open letter has gone around to the Taoiseach and all Deputies in this House to protest to the German ambassador about that suppression of free discussion and freedom of assembly. I encourage Members to sign that letter.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there to be no answer for me?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the conference in Germany.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [15145/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be another national demonstration this Saturday in support of the people of Gaza and Palestine. The very simple demand will be for sanctions on Israel now. The simple inescapable fact is that the genocide that Israel is inflicting on Gaza and the horrors that have been inflicted on its people could not happen if Israel did not get EU favoured trade status, weapons from Germany,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The National Youth Council of Ireland, NYCI ,report suggests that half of young people are very unhappy with their housing situation and more than half feel their mental health is seriously being affected by this issue. They have good reason to feel that way. I will give two examples. This week, I met a family who are being evicted. They are a working family who got a notice to quit on...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not aware until a bus driver who works for Dublin Bus contacted me that a major transport conference is taking place in Dublin this week. It is the Transport Research Arena conference, which I believe the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, are at to discuss sustainable transport. The driver asked me why there are no bus drivers at the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [15144/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [10625/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that schools that are looking to open special classes and that have a waiting list for these classes are not inhibited from doing so because of lack of physical space; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16471/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the method of calculating the allocation of special needs resources to schools that has seen a third of primary schools lose resources for 2024/2025 will be changed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16470/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the pilot project to provide free period products is extended to a permanent scheme and is put in place for all further and higher education institutions as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16542/24]