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National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is exactly what is going on here. We are speaking about rising levels of wages in a situation where the cost of accommodation has gone out of control. What is the real actual money workers have? What is the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Dublin these days? Is it €1,600? How many workers only earn this a month? These are serious issues and we are asking that the...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has two minutes.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of bogus self-employment, the response of the Minister for Finance on this issue is shocking. There is no acknowledgement of the serious level of wholesale tax fraud that is going on in this area. The State is not interested in dealing with it. There is an interesting parallel between current events in Greece and the attitude of our State to the issue of bogus self-employment,...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I concur strongly with this amendment and the previous comments that were made. The points have been well elaborated in recent times, particularly with the Dunnes Stores strike and the manner in which those workers highlighted, through their action, the utterly scandalous situation of low pay and the intolerable conditions they and workers in many other employments have to put up with. Is...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To establish this right and link this legislation to what is a human right is a very positive, progressive and necessary step. We must raise the standards and counter the pressure and drive towards the race to the bottom. I would point to another dimension to this issue which we discussed at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform yesterday and I was very...

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

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Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also support this amendment. It is entirely sensible and appropriate. The Minister of State has acknowledged that elements of this Bill will have to be changed but cannot be changed at the moment for purely legal reasons, as Deputy O'Dea mentioned. The main explanation given to us on Committee Stage of the debate was that the marriage equality amendment had not yet been passed....

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Generally speaking, the legislation is to be welcomed. There has been some acknowledgement of concerns raised at earlier Stages in the debate. All of this is to be welcomed, but it quite simply does not go far enough, particularly in the area of young people. It is a pity that the Government is still lagging behind on this issue, given the absolutely fantastic sentiment for equality...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: La Senza and Vita Cortex.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 39:In page 21, to delete lines 17 and 18.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 40:In page 21, to delete lines 22 to 28.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 43:In page 22, lines 2 to 23, to delete all words from and including “(1) Section” in line 2 down to and including line 23.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 38:In page 21, line 10, to delete “and profit on those costs”.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I move amendment No. 36:In page 20, to delete lines 19 to 39, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 and 2.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commission any reviews on the over-use of drugs in mental health and disability services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27668/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Health considering his Department's concerns regarding the over-use of drugs with elderly and adult patients, if he has similar concerns regarding children in mental health and disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) might expect to receive a reply to an application for an exceptional needs payment to fund new clothes. [28105/15]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any good that is in this Bill is completely wiped out by these leasing provisions. This marks another fundamental watershed in this Government's gallop away from the principle of the provision of social housing by local authorities and towards outsourcing such provision to the private sector. When private developers build housing under this Bill, nothing at all - not 20% and not 10% - will...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have had a long debate on this matter. We have gone through the various arguments in great detail on Committee and Report Stages. The five amendments I have tabled and the amendments tabled by some other Deputies deal with the worst aspects of this Bill. We have argued at length about the big weaknesses in the Bill. There are one or two strengths as well. The get-out clauses and...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can help Deputy Coppinger on that one. In response to a recent question, the Minister of State informed us that 1,700 housing units are to be built in 100 separate projects across all 31 local authorities by the end of 2017. To put that in context, in my area alone, 1,200 people joined the list last year. They are joining the list at a rate of 100 per month. The figures are the same...