Results 1-9 of 9 for construction industry council speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...he could not get on the site, along with many other people, due to them being known union activists and the main contractor did not want them anywhere near the site. That was, by the way, building council houses. As a result of the fantastic campaigning of building workers and groups such as Building Workers against the Black Economy, eventually, after a couple of decades of campaigning...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the real damage. We do not want to tax them. In fact we go out of our way to make sure they do not pay taxes by providing them with a multiplicity of tax breaks. Because we will not do that, we tax people who live in council houses they are not even allowed to retrofit. Such people cannot do anything to reduce their energy bills until the local councils decide to retrofit their...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...2018. Local authority housing output is getting worse. The State built 1,238 houses in 2018 and only 1,088 in 2019, but in Dublin the situation is worse. In 2018, the four Dublin counties built 634 council houses, a pathetic number in and of itself. In 2019, that fell to 228. In Dún Laoghaire, the number went from 120 in 2018, for a housing list of 5,000, to 17 in 2019 for that...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...all uncertainties. Whether we have a hard Brexit or any of these difficulties materialise, there are many areas where we need dramatic increases in investment and spending. Affordable housing and council housing are most obvious area. We are not doing enough. The Construction Industry Federation told the committee that the private sector will not meet the output targets the...

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...again. The story I am about to relate sums up the problem. I met a young man, whose name I will not mention, at a protest involving film workers on precarious employment in the film industry. It was interesting, and I will talk more about this in the finance committee in a while, that a bit of a hatchet job was done by RTÉ on those protesting workers last Thursday, which was...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...these things for the entire economy and for proper planning and development in the key area of housing. This is about facilitating that. In this Bill, the Government is dancing to the tune of the Construction Industry Federation. There is no doubt about it. It is exploiting the justified demand to increase the supply of social and affordable housing and to deal with the housing and...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...legislation in the past year or so. I do not know where to start, but let me outline a few facts which bear out what I have said. There are 96,000 people on the housing list. In 2008 a total of 4,900 council houses were built. In 2013 the total number of council houses built was 293. The year 2008 was a disaster in terms of social housing. The lists were getting longer and had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and Dublin city centre. That is how desperate people are. We have gone everywhere and they have gone everywhere, including Threshold, Focus, the local authority and welfare sections, but there are no council houses. Maura, who is in the Visitors' Gallery, has been on a housing list for 14 years and was told recently by the local authority that it would be three more years before she is...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of all of these groups and in trying to take on their concerns. In that regard, one immediate issue which does not relate directly to the legislation are the proposals resulting from the new construction works on the Luas in St. Stephen's Green, O'Connell Street and Foster Place. The drivers have told me that, if there are unilateral moves to remove ranks from these areas related to the...