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Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of this going on? I am not sure if this stuff has come into the public domain. Records reveal that a company called Gresham House Forestry General Partners (Ireland) Limited was established in April 2022 with Pat Cox, an ex-Fine Gael Deputy and MEP, as a non-executive director. The company also joined the Irish Association of Investment Managers, which is led by the former Fine Gael...

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a SLAPP taken against it because it sought a judicial review against a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for a strategic housing development by Atlas GP Ltd., a developer owned by Pat Crean of Marlet Property Group. This information is in the public domain and has been widely reported. That case has been taken against eight members of the residents association in a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...problem of rising and unaffordable rents is worse in Ireland than pretty much anywhere else in Europe, but it is happening everywhere. The Taoiseach gave me what was, no doubt, his scriptwriter's pat answer to fob this off, that it did not really work in Berlin.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pat Rabbitte was the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (20 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the real causes of the fire so they can finally get truth and justice. Will the Taoiseach not pass the buck but rather answer the families. Why has this not been done? A desktop report by Pat McCartan was not what they asked for. It did not look seriously at the new evidence they had provided, evidence that is staring the Government in the face, about the fire having started earlier...

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...battle for truth and justice regarding the causes of the fire that consumed 48 young people - their loved ones - in 1981. I do not really understand the McCartan report's conclusions. I have met Pat McCartan and he seems to be a good man but I really do not understand the conclusions. I do not accept his view. The families are right not to accept that there is no necessity for a full...

Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...access and safety. People in wheelchairs cannot get on the train if there is not somebody there to put a ramp out. They already have to give huge amounts of notice to get on the train. Pat in the Sandycove station told me this Saturday that he was only on at 6.30 p.m. because of the rugby match, and there were otherwise no staff on duty after 4 p.m. Somebody arrived in a wheelchair on...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...;50 million, but CIE had an arrangement with Treasury Holdings. That arrangement was seriously questioned and criticised at the time by the then Minister, former Deputy Mary O'Rourke, and subsequently by former Deputy Pat Rabbitte. In fact, a report was ordered by the then Minister, Mary O'Rourke, into the entire deal between CIE and Treasury Holdings on the grounds that she and others...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a housing list of nearly 160,000. In my constituency of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown alone, there are more than 6,000 people on the list. The entire new build of local authority housing next year would not even cut by half the housing list in my area - in one area. That is how bad it is. It is absolutely pathetic. Where is the money going? Again, it is in the book. There is...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...I warned then - because in Dún Laoghaire they did not go down - that they were going back up everywhere and that there would be a crisis in a year or two. I was laughed at by the former Minister, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, and others. In Dún Laoghaire now it is disastrous. Rents for a three-bedroom house are €2,200 on average. That has nearly doubled in the past two years....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am interested in the answer to Deputy Pat Rabbitte's question. We will obviously hear what Professor Honohan has to say, but it strikes me that we are being told the money will be given back, but only after A, B, C, D and E have been done. It is similar to the Greek situation. It seems that a great deal of pain will have to be inflicted on many people in order to ensure this money is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of it? Does the Taoiseach not have a responsibility, given the parlous state of our economy and the financial situation of many of our citizens, to look into this seriously and not just trot out the pat answers provided by the Department of Finance? In the past year we have been told about a 2.2% rate. I showed a 6.3% rate by means of a parliamentary question. The Nevin Institute...

Order of Business (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from some source in the Government that a merger was being considered between Bord na Móna and Coillte. We obviously have the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, saying the sale of Coillte will not go ahead, while the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, says it is being considered. The Minister for Public...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (12 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with the Government and the earlier comments made by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, in dismissing with contempt the criticism and prescriptions of the Fianna Fáil Party when it comes to the Government's jobs initiative. The unemployment crisis arises directly from Fianna Fáil's collusion with bankers and developers whose greed...