Results 1-20 of 936 for long speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...hidden homeless because, of course, they are not in emergency accommodation. It is getting worse. It is bad for everybody but it is particularly bad for children, and this is not acceptable. How long do you have to be in homeless accommodation before you get housed? How long do you have to be in overcrowded circumstances with two or, in many cases, three generations crammed into a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister envisages it, how often would this investment strategy be reviewed, or how long would it be set for?

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...took place are elderly now and most of them have been marked indelibly with the scars of the abuse, punishment and neglect that the church and State inflicted on them. They have fought long and hard for that redress. I think when Bertie Ahern was Taoiseach, he initially apologised for the abuse of these children, and they were children, in their tens of thousands by church and State in...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of those who lost their loved ones and for the survivors, the State apology and the words spoken here today can do something to provide the solace, truth and justice they have fought for and long deserved. I am very conscious that I am not qualified to know or understand the pain, loss, injustice, trauma and hardship you have endured as a result of the loss of your loved ones and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and support to the families of the 48 who never came home from the Artane fire in 1981. I hope that today is the day they finally get the truth and justice they deserve after their 40-year long struggle. Next Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. outside the Dáil, the Raise the Roof campaign will hold a major rally demanding secure and affordable housing for all. The coalition of trade unions,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...spending would be doubled. I doubt that has happened. Maybe the Minister could comment on this. Our percentage of GDP spent on arts is significantly less than the European average, so we have a long way to go even if there have been some improvements as a result of the campaigning by arts workers in recent years. I do not believe that the gathering of research means there is no need...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the population, of between €9,000 and €13,000 a year. There is wholly inadequate support to take into account this cost of disability. As a result, one in five people unable to work due to long-standing health problems lives in consistent poverty. One in two of them lives in deprivation. People with disabilities are twice as likely to be homeless. They are more likely...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that they go higher and that it goes up to 50%. It is interesting the constitutional issue has raised its head in this debate. One of the demands of Raise the Roof, which has been a long-standing demand of many of us in this House and of the housing movement, is that we need a constitutional amendment referendum on the right to housing precisely to address this issue. Legal opinion...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...number of commencements. We are all aware that speculation goes on and we can probably all point to examples. The Minister stated that two years is too short, but I say that five years is too long and ten years - as five years allows for an extension to ten years-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...then I would precisely insist on that. Insofar as the Minister has said he is going to do that so there would be no extension beyond ten years, that is welcome but to my mind, ten years is too long unless there is an extremely good reason. The Minister can legislate for that as well if there are some exceptional circumstances. Covid-19 was referenced by the Minister. All sorts of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he agrees that inadequate HAP rates and social housing income limits and the lack of three and four-bed social housing are contributing to long-term homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15659/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not be long as I have to go to the housing committee. I apologise if this has been answered. Dual-use exports to Israel from last year were substantially up on the year before. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...environment and on them. The Minister cannot deprive them of that right. This in a very small number of circumstances. There is no question of this being allowed to go on forever and ever, as long as the correct threshold is created. However, he has to accept, and I hope he does notwithstanding certain concerns about the consequences of doing it wrong, that it just would not be fair if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...international political community are displaying, especially over the past couple of years in this regard? Many of us, including all the witnesses, were calling for sanctions to be imposed on Israel long before the recent genocidal massacre it has inflicted in Gaza due to decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, persecution of the Palestinians and refusal to allow the refugees their right...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...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 situation we are now dealing with, where the site is being built out and it is €600,000, €700,000 or...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...number of houses in general, but we have often seen how we can get the housing but it not necessarily affordable or how a sufficient percentage of it is not social housing. We still end up with long waiting lists or people being priced out of the market. That needs to be looked at in the context of these strategies. The likely need for social, affordable and cost-rental housing needs to...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not most, of our European counterparts when it comes to the treatment of our postgraduate researchers in terms of levels of income, employment security, career paths, opportunities, etc. We have a long way to go. It would be entirely reasonable therefore to hardwire that into a State body that is responsible for funding research.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...do not know why they came here, because it is impossible. It seems to me that that is not a good space for us to be in. We want to make this an attractive place for people to do research. We have a long way to go in order to get to that situation. As of now, we do not even have a guaranteed living wage or proper employment conditions for people in research. If you work for four or...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...researcher” shall include doctoral students and other early-career researchers employed in institutions of higher education and research, in accordance with the Salzburg Principles;”. Seven minutes is not very long to speak to multiple amendments. The purpose of this group of amendments is to ensure that we have proper representation of postgraduate researchers and that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how long the e-vetting process takes in the naturalisation process; the length of time for which e-vetting is valid; if she is aware of the issue with inputting the county on the on-line form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8843/24]