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

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I extend my solidarity 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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for apartments.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we not next, a Cheann Comhairle.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in light of the basic income for artists initial report, if she will commit now to including a full roll-out of this scheme for all artists in budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17256/24]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The basic income for artists was introduced at the end of 2022 after a great deal of campaigning by the arts sector. To date, it has led to significant improvements in the well-being and mental health of artists, a reduction in the amount of time they have to work in other jobs, an increase in the amount of time they work at their arts practice and some improvements in people's incomes and...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before the pilot scheme, 72% of respondents to a survey earned less than the national hourly average and 16% earned less than the minimum wage. The reality for most people working in the arts is precariousness, a lack of employment and income security, being forced out of the arts because they cannot sustain themselves, and high levels of deprivation and stress due to their precarious...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was a promise a number of years ago by, I believe, the then Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, who was under pressure from the campaigning by the arts sector, that arts 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...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the NDP has sufficiently taken into account and is adequately resourced to meet the growing demand for sports facilities, particularly with the very considerable and welcome growth of women’s sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16222/24]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The failure of successive Governments to vindicate the rights of people with disabilities is testified to by many failures. However, one that sums it up is that for 11 years, there was a campaign by people with disabilities and disability activists just to get governments to honour their commitment to ratify the UNCRPD. It took 11 years of campaigning from the first commitment to ratify the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not according to them.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister. The Government got a kicking in the recent referendum precisely for that reason. People with disabilities felt insulted, treated with contempt and ignored. They expected to be given rights in that referendum. My God, I certainly am not a fan, as I do not think anybody could be, of the previous constitutional wording, which did nothing for people with...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will just get my stuff.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 891: In page 403, line 6, to delete “a planning authority” and substitute “members of the relevant local authority”. Should I move the rest of the amendments in the grouping?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want the housing strategy to be done by the members. That is what the amendment proposes. The housing strategy is critically important and we want to see local authorities take a much more proactive role in delivering housing, especially social and affordable housing and developing a strategy to do so. We want the members and not only the planning authority to be the ones who discuss...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is saying that normally with plans or strategies the executive - the officials - will do a draft and the members will look at that and maybe amend it. There should be a consultation with the members and the members should set the broad parameters of the strategy. In Oireachtas committees, we discuss stuff. Some of the officials and the secretariat will write it up into...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is helpful but if the Minister is in principle in agreement with-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then I agree with some of what you say. The bit I agree with is that under section 52 the elected representatives are allowed issue a direction to the chief executive regarding a housing development strategy.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It says "issue no more than one direction", so it is limiting it for reasons-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand what the Minister is saying. However, it seems that while this gets at what we are trying to do in the amendment to some degree, I am a little concerned that it is a bit limited and does not spell it out in the clearest terms possible. Perhaps the Minister can provide reassurance on this. I want the members to be involved in the discussion before the draft is developed and,...