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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with an absolutely shameful housing and homelessness emergency, a crumbling health service which is inflicting such hardship and suffering on so many of those who use it, a climate emergency that is galloping towards us, a further education system that is in dire need of investment as our universities tumble in the world rankings, and in a society that is marked by some of the greatest...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 433. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings he held with representatives of the remaining consortium for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to ensure that the recommendations of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar are implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40115/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (4 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that when a social welfare recipient is transitioning from jobseeker's to a VTOS scheme, he or she is required to pay a back week and therefore does not get paid for the first week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40385/18]

Taxation Agreement: Motion (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our reputation went a good while ago.

Taxation Agreement: Motion (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of global multinational corporations avoiding tax by shifting profits from where they are actually generated to other jurisdictions where they can through complex means avoid paying tax is arguably the major contributory factor to staggering levels of inequality globally that are galloping away in their obscenity. 9 o’clock Year after year, the gap between the wealth of a...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State, Deputy English, accused some of us on this side of the House of not liking facts. We very much like facts, but the facts regarding what the Government is delivering in affordable and public housing are pretty grim. In the first six months of this year, the Government delivered 203 council houses in the four Dublin county councils, 16 of which are in Dublin city. That...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to, please, stop trying to deceive the public. The Government must build public housing on public land and stop relying on vulture funds, speculators and corporate landlords which are making an obscene fortune from the misery of others. It is clear the Government will not do that, which is the reason for the protests and people power of the sort exemplified by the Take...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could double the number of houses provided.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— access to secure and genuinely affordable housing is increasingly out of reach for many people; — from the locked-out generation of students and young workers or unemployed people, to older workers facing into retirement, high-cost insecure accommodation is a reality for too many people; — the failure of the Government...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Gender Equality (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for reconvening a Citizens' Assembly. [39829/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with political leaders in Northern Ireland. [39830/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not need unaffordable houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only 16 social houses were provided in Dublin in the first half of this year.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale for the purchase of a new multi-role naval vessel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40060/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the planned purchase of a multi-role naval vessel; the cost of the vessel; the tendering procedures; if this will be part of budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40059/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if houses, apartments or family accommodation in the ownership of his Department will be provided to a trust that would refurbish the properties and provide homes for military personnel (details supplied). [40170/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I move on to the next question?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have three minutes, do we not?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore we cannot move on to the next question.