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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many aspects to the housing crisis and the failure of this Government to deal with it. The programme for Government puts a particular emphasis on affordable housing. The Rebuilding Ireland affordable home loan scheme, which commenced last February, is a mess. More evidence of the mess around it was provided by Brian O'Connell on the "Today with Seán O'Rourke" radio...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Into selling off oversupply by NAMA.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to the United States of America and the meetings he attended. [13969/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the issues he raised with President Trump during his recent visit to the White House. [12373/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E (Health) last met. [12374/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full report on the involvement of the Land Development Agency in the development of public housing on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16406/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the strategic housing development legislation is contributing to the provision of affordable housing in particular in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16408/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which affordable homes would be delivered nationally further to his recent circular on affordable housing criteria to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16405/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered legislation that would protect small low-rise communities from losing sunlight from their homes and communities due to high-rise development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16407/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for raising the income eligibility criteria for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16404/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is a legal requirement for the Revenue Commissioners to issue P60s by 15 February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16217/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 357. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to adopt the United Kingdom system in which a person having a psychotic or psychiatric episode must be assessed in a hospital before being detained in police custody; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16215/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for psychiatric beds; the number of those in prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16216/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for implementing the outstanding recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly. [14251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding applied for by Wicklow County Council to facilitate the transfer of residents from one area to another (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15748/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the potential for blacklisting in industries in which there is widespread use of fixed-term contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15660/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another important area of abuse of worker rights is the abuse of fixed-term workers. Legislation governing fixed-term workers should demand that these workers are treated no less favourably than full-time workers. However, I have seen evidence and have received testimony from workers in the Irish film industry which shows that the provisions of the fixed-term work legislation is not being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the Minister's response and will take her up on her offer of help for a particular group of workers. We have engaged with the Department of Finance which is, in fairness, responding with regard to certain issues including the question of public funding and linking that to the vindication of rights. This issue actually cuts across several Departments, including the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much appreciate that response and will contact the Minister to arrange a meeting. Many of the people to whom I refer have been working in the industry for ten, 15 or 20 years. Obviously, film work is episodic at some level but if workers point out that they are not receiving their rights and entitlements or if their employer simply does not like them, they stop getting work. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to allegations of abuse of workers on fixed-term contracts in episodic industries; if she has discussed the role she may play in vindicating the rights of these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15659/19]