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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9 o’clock The vacant homes tax is a failure. We learned at the beginning of this year that only €2 million was raised from it and it applied to less than 3,500 properties. That is against a background where the census showed 160,000 vacant residential dwellings, 48,000 of which were vacant in both the 2016 census and the 2022 census. We then have about 20,000 derelict...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline, given that applicants for social housing require a demonstrated connection to the area in which they are applying, how somebody (details supplied) who has recently received a stamp 4 visa, despite having lived without documentation in Dublin city for the past 12 years in various hostels, demonstrated...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., get left in these appalling conditions where a tragedy like that can happen. We have to do something about that to prevent Travellers being left in accommodation where the normal rules do not apply and to ensure there is proper regulation, safety and all the rest. That is why it is imperative. We owe it to the Traveller community who we have let down to specifically put an imperative...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of incomes. It is far below a living income and much less than postgraduate workers and researchers get from best practice in Europe, where people can be paid up to €40,000 or €50,000. People get €22,000 here but, let us not forget, that applies to only 30% of postgraduate researchers. Some 70% are often on much less than that and are living in poverty. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality which visas are most suitable for Palestinians in Gaza to apply for in order to be permitted to enter Ireland; which visas are most suitable specifically for those with no family here, but who have previously resided in Ireland and for family members of such individuals; her Department's current policy on approving visa...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what avenues are open to a person (details supplied) who has to apply for a passport if the copies of their birth certificate, name change and gender recognition certificate are notarised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the avenues a person with a three-month visa who has arrived in Ireland from Gaza can now use to apply for citizenship in Ireland whose close family member holds a work visa permit in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9469/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...as is not completed within the duration of the permission, where the development to which the permission relates is commenced within that duration. What we are dealing with says that shall not apply "in relation to retention permission for any unauthorised structure".

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a person who is not currently in Ireland and is in need of international protection would apply for asylum in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6521/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...have acquired contracts of indefinite duration, the answer is “Zero”. They go on to explain how it is not possible, given the nature of the industry. They sign a declaration saying they will apply it to fixed-term workers and they will comply with it, only for them to then say that it cannot be complied with. People work ten, 15, 20 or 25 years in an industry and they keep...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...impact as a consequence of that because teams that are staffed by section 39 workers are having much more difficulty in recruiting people as a result of the fact that inferior pay and conditions apply. This is having serious consequences. To give the Taoiseach an example, Ciaran is now eight years old. He was told that he needed a key worker and specialist professional support for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...civilised world. When the Taoiseach is having discussions with the French Prime Minister or other European counterparts, is there any moment when he begins to wonder whether that analogy should apply to the apartheid state of Israel after what it has done over the past six weeks? For example, the deputy speaker of the Knesset said last week that "We are being too humane" in Gaza, and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any expedition for families applying for reunification of their family members in Gaza who cannot access original documents as necessary in usual circumstances given this is an abnormal situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive their SPSV licence, given that they applied over seven months ago, with no information on its status being communicated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48843/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...-term workers directive and the fixed-term workers legislation is to prevent the abuse of successive use of fixed-term contracts. That is the whole point of the legislation. If somebody is telling us it cannot apply in the Irish film industry, that is a pretty serious matter. It is an unacceptable issue that we are being told by the people who receive the relief that it is not possible...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Gaza. First, I ask the Taoiseach, if a paramilitary group in Ireland attacked Britain would that give Britain the right to bomb Dublin or Belfast, for example? That is the logic that is being applied. Second, if any actor has the right to pursue by military means an entire population in order to pursue a particular paramilitary antagonist, do the Palestinians have the same right to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...as a result of the campaigning of workers in the industry. They say they will abide by this and that bit of legislation but they sign it with a big grin because they know it does not matter as it does not apply to them. At least, they argue it does not apply and there is no enforcement. Nobody bothers to check what is actually going on, even though the Government has been told again and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...she thinks she was there for more than six months, although there is not a lot of consistency in the information in the various documents she is getting from the different people to whom she can apply for documents. However, she feels she is letting down others by taking up the redress when so many others were excluded. She rightly identifies, as other people and I have said to the...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...looking after the sick, just to give one example from the constituency I share with the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, is now homeless. On her earnings, which are over the social housing income threshold, this woman cannot apply for social housing, cannot get any income support and is now homeless. I think she is in her early 60s, and has nowhere to go. Another family,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any reduction in the VAT rate applied to sports and fitness classes in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46309/23]