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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 384. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Departments that have sanction to run internal competitions for promotions; the number of internal competitions that were held by these Departments during the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of promotions that were appointed during the Covid-19 pandemic by Departments with their own sanction; if these competitions were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social welfare payments that are calculated for the purpose of the assessment for social housing; if he will provide details of the payments that are exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that income is assessed for the purposes of social housing support, including details of income limits, allowances per child, payments that are included in calculation and if the working family payment is included for the purposes of the calculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51039/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income limit for a family of two parents and six children registered on the housing lists in Dublin to be eligible for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51040/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 20% discretionary HAP uplift can be applied to an ongoing tenancy in which a tenant has received a rent increase and cannot afford to pay any further top up to the landlord; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50372/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assistance that can be provided in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50729/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste mentioned empathy earlier. Will his Government extend a bit of empathy to families that are in homeless accommodation for years on end? I raise this matter because I am currently dealing with two cases where there is a distinct lack of empathy being shown. As I understand it, this is at least significantly to do with Government policy. In one case, a family of eight,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What empathy will the Government show those families?

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will repeat a point that Deputy Barry made and I also made earlier. It is amazing there is not more scrutiny of the simple fact the Minister told us yesterday that inflation is running at 3.7% and yet, as I highlighted earlier, somebody who is on the average industrial wage of €40,000 a year is getting, as a result of the tax changes the Government has brought in, less than 0.5% in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are but it must be genuinely affordable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We opposed the selling of public lands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was lots of supply during the Celtic tiger.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unaffordable supply is not useful to Roan and Nicole.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should have a referendum on it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, the Tánaiste said that most people in this country will be better off after yesterday's budget and the Taoiseach has more or less reiterated that myth. It is critical to puncture that myth and get across the truth about what happened in yesterday's budget. Using even the most elementary arithmetic, looking at the details of budget will show that is not true. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a different view about how to deal with rents than some of the other Opposition parties. We believe we should control rents, as is done in other countries, and set rents at affordable levels based on people's income and the size of the property, not refunds or things that will inflate the market, but actual rent controls. I go back to the example of Mairéad. Based on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The student grants have not gone up for nearly a decade so the small patch-up we saw in the budget yesterday does not go anywhere near dealing with the cost of living and, in particular, the accommodation cost hikes we have seen. In three months alone this summer in Dublin there was a 5.6% rise in rents. That was on top of an almost 5% increase the year before. Average rents in Dublin are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government gave €63 million to KBC Bank Ireland and Ulster Bank yesterday as a goodbye present as they exit the Irish market, so I ask the Minister not to tell me about the €60 million, which is less than that, which the Government gave to students. Students will be outside Dublin City Council today and I will be speaking to them, as will other Members. You need only talk...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address student poverty particularly poverty arising from extortionate costs of accommodation and the burden of fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49872/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Owen Keegan showed utter contempt for students and the crisis they face with accommodation costs. I put it to the Minister that the Government has not been far off in its contempt due to its failure to address the student poverty crisis and the cost of student accommodation. There are no measures whatsoever in the budget to deal with the extortionate cost of accommodation and the student...