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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.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...other delays that we cannot quite get to the bottom of but have something to do with things like procurement, tendering rules or bits of the system not joining up with each other? Is it that the land is not serviced so we cannot start to do anything? I refer to instances where, for example, Irish Water has not put in the necessary infrastructure in place. There is another problem in...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and towns in an act of terrorism. Within days of the agreement of the UN partition plan at that time, Israel set out to move way beyond and breach the terms of the partition plan, seize Palestinian land and ethnically cleanse the Palestinians. For decades since, there has been wave after wave of ethnic cleansing, decades of illegal occupation, a 16-year long siege of Gaza and the...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...London. All of them were saying the same thing, which was that they are over there - and London is expensive - because they cannot find anywhere affordable to live in Dublin. They are leaving for England, Australia and the Middle East because they cannot afford to live here. They are the very people in many cases that we need to fill the skills shortages we have, build the houses we...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the commitment to keep all Coillte lands in public ownership in the Programme for Government and the claim on Coillte's website that land is available for sale; the steps the Government has taken to ensure that Coillte land is not sold or privatised during the life of this Government. [2182/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of Coillte's advertised policy on the sale and leasing of public land; how much land has been sold or leased since he became Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2183/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...these funds. They should be told to get out of the country. They are wrecking the housing market. They are profiteering off the misery of ordinary people. The German Government has banned real estate investment trusts from buying up residential property. New Zealand has banned these foreign investment funds from buying houses. In the United States at the moment, there is legislation,...