Results 161-180 of 939 for long speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: First Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the 1950s with their kids. They were terrified at the prospect of being evicted. They and all the other thousands of people who face evictions need to be protected by the Government. We need sustainable, secure and long-term solutions in terms of social and affordable housing. If the Government does not deliver on that, we will have no choice but to push for the Bill to be voted on in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on FDI. The two are connected: we have all these windfall revenues and they are largely from corporate tax receipts, which may disappear at some point. There is a dilemma. We need to invest in long-term things, as Professor Kinsella suggests. We have to invest in housing; that is self-evident. We have not got enough housing. We have to invest in public transport; that is pretty...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...wind energy generation being planned will be in the hands of private companies and that there is potential for us to be the prey of speculators who have no real commitment to the welfare or long-term interests of the State?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Government did was a drop in the ocean. It is telling that we had some of the biggest student protests for a long time after the budget. They were not happy. I am relaying what those students expressed to me. Some PhD students get no stipends. Some get miserable stipends of a few grand. Even those who get €18,000 have to work all the hours that God sends. They find it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were calling for it for a long time and the Government ignored it.

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...shown to these workers and their service users has to end. I commend the workers for that campaign. I have no doubt they will continue it. They can be assured of our continued support. It is long past time that the Government recognised their case and conceded the demands that they are making.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...-off assistance payments to deal with the question of being able to heat their homes and pay for the energy price hikes over the winter. The Estimates Book is very clear about this that only people on long-term social welfare payments will receive these payments. Is the Taoiseach going to address that issue?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They may be facts but they do not explain why we have major staff shortages across our health service and, therefore, long waiting lists and a crisis in our emergency departments, and classes being cancelled because teachers have nowhere to live. What are we going to do about this? I have a proposal. The Minister stated that we should not spend the windfall tax receipts on ongoing...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...it and the tenants still have the sword of Damocles hanging over their head. In the case of Debbie, we have asked the council to buy. The Minister says that, in line with the request we have been making for a long time, he has instructed the local authorities to buy houses where people are facing eviction on foot of a notice to quit on grounds of sale. What the Minister says is not...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...rethink that one. The vast majority of those in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, illness benefit, enhanced illness benefit, maternity benefit and disablement benefit, in other words people who are not long-term recipients of social welfare payments, get no fuel allowance, will get no lump sum payment and will get no Christmas bonus. How is that acceptable? Where is the help for them...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...through no fault of their own. I want to make a very specific and positive proposal. The Government has had a windfall in corporate tax receipts. I understand we cannot depend on this over the long term but the Government could use this money to purchase properties where people face evictions into homelessness through no fault of their own. It would be a good investment. It would...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is threatened with eviction from a housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancy, let us buy the house immediately, prevent people from being put on the street and save the State money in the long term.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...will march for energy price controls and controls on the price of food. They will call for controls on rent, to make housing affordable and to keep incomes, whether pensions or wages, in line with inflation costs. It is long past time that we took the companies profiteering from this cost-of-living crisis back into public ownership. Nationalise the energy sector and run it on a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...more buses for rural Ireland and new routes? Would these not be the types of measures the Government could take with these additional revenues? They would be sensible investments in the medium and long term that would make a real difference in the short term with regard to the cost-of-living and housing crises that people are faced with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...fact that the concern about the taxi advisory committee not being fit for purpose has been raised repeatedly with the Minister. If all of the representative groups are making the same point for a long period time, somebody has to take notice.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...McMahon was referring to, to have a sustainable economic plan. Is there anything wrong with saying we should be investing in areas that will help people now but also make us sustainable in the medium to long term? Housing is an obvious one. The current housing crisis is draining current Government revenue to a massive degree - by about €1 billion per year. Putting more money...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has not been published or announced despite repeated promises that it would be before the summer recess. There is absolutely no justification for the fact that the review has gone on for that long. There is certainly no justification for the fact that the Minister has sat on it from December. The ESRI quantified the number of people in need of housing support who were cut off their...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...was agreed on 1 June 2021. It relates to the impact of offshore renewable energy on fishers and the marine environment. This resolution was adopted and recommended by the rapporteur. To cut a long story short, what it basically states is, notwithstanding the commitment of the European Union to develop its offshore renewable resources, it should not do so in such a way that would...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State would go a long way to convince us that is true if, in the same way he withdrew amendment No. 25, he would withdraw amendments Nos. 12, 13, 40, 41, 42 and 47. Maybe he could let us know if he is serious about that and save us the bother of having a needless debate because otherwise this is going to be guillotined through. We are not going to reach most of the...