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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the sharp increase in family homelessness, and what measures he intends to take to ensure that this trend is reversed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54220/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister of State knows, as we head into Christmas, there are 13,000 people who are living in emergency accommodation. A particularly terrible aspect of that is the significant rise in family homelessness. More than 1,800 families are living in emergency accommodation, including 4,000 children. Those figures are consistently rising. I want to know what particular measures the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has quoted a lot of policies, figures and so on, but the important figure here is the number of people in homelessness, as well as the consistent rise, which has been pretty dramatic over the past months, in family homelessness. It is rising. The Government's policies are not working and, therefore, a number of children are going to go through the trauma of spending...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the progress of the cost rental delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the HAP limits in line with rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when he intends to bring forward the promised "first refusal" legislation with regard to the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what measures he is going to put in place to address those families and individuals in homeless services who are above the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54221/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Deputy Barry does not arrive I will; if he does, I will share time. How many thousand more Palestinians will be dead by the time the European Council meets next week? Some 16,000 have already died, 70% of whom were women and children. Children, including babies, accounted for 40%. How many more will be dead before the Taoiseach goes to the European Council next week? He told us...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of last year, NESC produced a report on improving industrial relations. I suggest that NESC was absolutely right to focus on this subject when we consider that Fórsa has demonstrations today outside hospitals because of the really outrageous fact that a recruitment embargo has been imposed across our health service. Fórsa points out that due to this recruitment pause,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- on a health service when we need more, not less, staff.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 1948.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53908/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department. [53907/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from that point, the Israeli massacre in Gaza continues. Hundreds of people are being killed every day. More than 20,000 have been killed, 70% of whom were women and children. The Taoiseach has indicated that there is nothing really that he can do about it except criticise it. I suggest that what he could do is read, if he has not done so, the reports produced before 7...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are one of the richest countries in the world. We are now heading into Christmas with over 13,000 people homeless and 4,000 of those are children. Many of them have been homeless for several years. It is a stain on our society and, frankly, on Government that in such a wealthy society that should be the case. I have a simple question. What hope can the Taoiseach offer those families...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53589/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much doubt it. We have had to have significant Supplementary Estimates for health for a good few years. The Minister could probably remind me of that number.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This year, it is just over €1 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a 4% increase on the initial allocation and the Minister said it was more or less the same last year.