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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...managed not only to complicate it, but to make a dog’s dinner of it, resulting in a great deal of misery, suffering and hardship. The core of the problem is that most of the housing in this country is delivered by private landlords, private developers and private investors who are interested in profit, not in putting affordable roofs over people’s heads. Some of them...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a fair price. If somebody is sitting on it for speculative reasons, we should tax them to the hilt and take it off them for speculating on property. The same should be done with residential zoned land, planning permissions or any of these things where speculative profiteering is taking place on the back of vacant and derelict property. I say to the Minister that we must have a can-do...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering further taxation measures to address the issues of long-term vacancy, dereliction, land hoarding and property speculation in light of the severe housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23005/24]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...overcrowded conditions and being hopeless about the possibility of ever owning their own home or getting a social house while you can see vacant property, derelict sites and speculators sitting on land or property to make money out of it anywhere you walk. Is the Minister going to take any further measures in the forthcoming budget to deal with the scandal of vacant and derelict property...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...they are sitting on while waiting until it suits in order that they can make enough money is disgraceful, and the Government will not do anything about it. These people sit on tens of thousands of vacant or derelict properties and huge amounts of zoned residential land and drip-feed them into the market as it suits them or, even worse, they leave them empty because they are appreciating...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if, given the urgency of boosting housing supply, he is considering further changes to the residential zoned land tax to accelerate activation of residential zoned land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22766/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...us quicker and harder than even the climate emergency, serious as that is. We were supposed to protect these areas with the marine protected areas. The average in most of Europe is 30%. The Netherlands are up around 40% and Germany is around 50% protected. We had about 3% protected up to a few years ago; now it is up to about 7%. We are at the bottom of the league table for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to move into construction. The State should ramp up apprenticeships and, unlike in previous construction booms or upswings, we should send the message that if people go into construction, they will not be landed on the dole at the next collapse because it has all been left up to the private market, but that there will instead be sustainable, secure and decent employment that the State...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that, "In page 405... subject to subsection (12), a housing strategy shall provide that [as a general policy] a specified percentage". The Government says this should not be more than 20% of the land zoned. The Government is saying what is now Part VII provision for social and affordable is not to be more than 20%. I propose to amend that to say it shall not be less than 20% for social...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is actually happening. This is not an attempt to get at people who are genuinely putting forward legitimate planning or development proposals. However, where people are knowingly hoarding land for the purposes of speculation on the appreciation of land that could be used for housing, measures have to be taken to address that. There are different ways of going at this. I am in favour...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...development and the number of commencements. The IGEES report is a strong piece of evidence produced by, I think, the Department of public expenditure and it pointed explicitly to speculation and land hoarding as a serious problem that the authors believe explains the disparity between the number of planning permissions granted and the number of commencements. We are all aware that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...comes in the groupings, but I will flag that we have tabled a connected amendment that talks about use-it-or-lose-it provisions, essentially if it is clearly evident that people are speculating and land hoarding, that there would be a mechanism to transfer such land that may be suitable and is urgently needed for residential development into the hands of the local authority. It is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Local authorities, therefore, should have had, and even now should have, the option available to them to allow them to designate a site as strategically important in the context of the housing crisis and state that the land in question will be used for one purpose and one purpose only, namely, to provide affordable and-or social housing. This is a very sensible suggestion and the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The arguments have largely been made but on the flipping of land, it is worth mentioning the Cherrywood development. The main investor bought it for a song. Let us remind ourselves - the biggest residential development site in the country was bought by a wealth asset management company which sat on it for quite a long period and then started to flip the sites. That is what caused the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill as currently written refers, in Section 19(2)(e) to "providing for land-sea interactions and securing coordination with the National Marine Planning Framework" but not with the actual plans. The framework and the plans are not the same thing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...framework is high level. The devil is in the detail in terms of planning and development, particularly when we are talking about the interaction of things that would happen on the sea and on the land. To my mind, this is to ensure not just that it is in co-ordination with things at a high level but also in co-ordination with the actual plans which need to be legally compliant.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...there are pinch points, but they feel it is completely wrong that the lack of public transport such as buses, especially at night, in a sufficient quantity and at a sufficient frequency should not land at their door. It is not fair to blame them for that problem. If we deregulate - there was deregulation in this area previously and it had quite disastrous consequences - people who, for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...The biggest residential development in the country, the Cherrywood development in my own area, is owned by Hines, although it has flipped some of the property and made a lot of profit. It got the land from NAMA at a discount but very modest houses there are going for between €600,000 and €700,000 and rents are running at €2,500 to €3,000 a month. This is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., and that if we want to see peace, as we do, it has to mean the end of that apartheid regime and there can be equality between Jews, Muslims, Christians and people of no religion who can share the land of Palestine as equals. We would not accept anything less anywhere else. We did not accept it in South Africa. It has to be imposed by western governments.