Results 161-180 of 943 for long speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...payment? The reason I am asking is partly because it was something the Debenhams workers were asking about. As the Minister will be aware, those workers were laid off during that period and had a long battle. They got nothing from the company and were only entitled to statutory redundancy pay, which, if I understand it, is exempt from tax. Is that right? The Minister is proposing that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...it so unattractive to be a bus driver? This is the question I have. From everything I hear from bus drivers the root of this is that they have to work, and are increasingly pushed to work, very long unsociable shifts.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that the crimes committed by the State and church against mothers and children were crimes from which we, as a society, must learn. This is not just the case in Ireland but globally. Given the long struggle here involving the victims of the various church and State institutions that persecuted, in particular, women and children and, more specifically, working class women and children, as...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the loopholes around ability to pay rent, the justification offered by the Minister for the emergency period - and it is the emergency period as defined by this legislation - surely exists as long as this House believes that it is an emergency. The Minister, however, has defined it as relating to the winter. Why is it limited from November to March if it is not to do with the winter?...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...;2023” and substitute “2024”. The eviction ban, or the deferment of termination dates for certain tenancies, to be more accurate, is a belated concession on the part of the Government to the long-standing demand of many of us here in the Opposition that it should ban no-fault evictions at least for the duration of the housing emergency. It should be noted that the...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...tenancies. The reduction in the numbers on the housing list is overwhelmingly because the Government failed to raise the income thresholds. People are taken off the list not because they no longer have a housing need, no longer need social housing support or are no longer in a position where they cannot pay the rents out there or afford the housing prices, but because their income goes...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...developers and corporate landlords do not profit from the foregoing acquisition programme; and — establish a State construction company and, in coordination with local authorities, speedily progress public housing projects, retrofitting and maintenance of public housing, thereby eliminating the long delays that arise from tendering and outsourcing processes, and the risk of public...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...our debt position and our financial position, we cannot afford to allow current expenditure to grow exponentially. The way to deal with that is for the State to have its own social and affordable housing stock on a much better scale than we have now. That capital investment is expensive at the outset but it saves billions over the medium to long term. It begins to generate revenue to the...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: First Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the 1950s with their kids. They were terrified at the prospect of being evicted. They and all the other thousands of people who face evictions need to be protected by the Government. We need sustainable, secure and long-term solutions in terms of social and affordable housing. If the Government does not deliver on that, we will have no choice but to push for the Bill to be voted on in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on FDI. The two are connected: we have all these windfall revenues and they are largely from corporate tax receipts, which may disappear at some point. There is a dilemma. We need to invest in long-term things, as Professor Kinsella suggests. We have to invest in housing; that is self-evident. We have not got enough housing. We have to invest in public transport; that is pretty...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...wind energy generation being planned will be in the hands of private companies and that there is potential for us to be the prey of speculators who have no real commitment to the welfare or long-term interests of the State?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Government did was a drop in the ocean. It is telling that we had some of the biggest student protests for a long time after the budget. They were not happy. I am relaying what those students expressed to me. Some PhD students get no stipends. Some get miserable stipends of a few grand. Even those who get €18,000 have to work all the hours that God sends. They find it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were calling for it for a long time and the Government ignored it.

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...shown to these workers and their service users has to end. I commend the workers for that campaign. I have no doubt they will continue it. They can be assured of our continued support. It is long past time that the Government recognised their case and conceded the demands that they are making.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...-off assistance payments to deal with the question of being able to heat their homes and pay for the energy price hikes over the winter. The Estimates Book is very clear about this that only people on long-term social welfare payments will receive these payments. Is the Taoiseach going to address that issue?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They may be facts but they do not explain why we have major staff shortages across our health service and, therefore, long waiting lists and a crisis in our emergency departments, and classes being cancelled because teachers have nowhere to live. What are we going to do about this? I have a proposal. The Minister stated that we should not spend the windfall tax receipts on ongoing...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...it and the tenants still have the sword of Damocles hanging over their head. In the case of Debbie, we have asked the council to buy. The Minister says that, in line with the request we have been making for a long time, he has instructed the local authorities to buy houses where people are facing eviction on foot of a notice to quit on grounds of sale. What the Minister says is not...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...rethink that one. The vast majority of those in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, illness benefit, enhanced illness benefit, maternity benefit and disablement benefit, in other words people who are not long-term recipients of social welfare payments, get no fuel allowance, will get no lump sum payment and will get no Christmas bonus. How is that acceptable? Where is the help for them...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...through no fault of their own. I want to make a very specific and positive proposal. The Government has had a windfall in corporate tax receipts. I understand we cannot depend on this over the long term but the Government could use this money to purchase properties where people face evictions into homelessness through no fault of their own. It would be a good investment. It would...