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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to deal with the growing problem of persons on HAP receiving rent increases in cases in which their HAP payments remain fixed and they are required to make top-up payments but cannot afford them, particularly social welfare recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant or assistance is available to a medical card holder towards the cost of electricity for a COPD machine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49128/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if a new medical card can be applied for retrospectively for a medical bill in circumstances in which the person applied for the card within eight weeks of the treatment but did not receive the card until after eight weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49412/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the multiple problems faced by trainee psychologists including the difficulty of supporting themselves thought their doctorates, the lack of availability of appropriate and funded placements for educational and counselling trainees, the cost of registering an MSc from abroad and so on; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who received the fuel allowance while on the jobseeker’s allowance and continued to receive fuel allowance when they went on a community employment scheme will retain their fuel allowance when they transfer from a community employment scheme back onto the jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make...

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?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the weekend, Mr. Killian Woods in the Business Postrevealed that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, was in possession of 54 units - let us call them what they are, namely, potential homes - in Prospect Hill, Finglas, 28 of which were vacant and 26 of which had been empty for a decade. That is an incredible fact for a publicly owned agency. This report confirmed and provided...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is misleading people. He is correct that the mandate set by the Government for NAMA is to blame for this outrageous situation. Let us remember what is at stake here: thousands of families are homeless, almost 100,000 families are on housing waiting lists and 70% of working people are completely priced out of the housing market. The truth is the NAMA legislation first of all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not need houses at €500,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at €500,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NAMA is. It is also sitting on empty properties.

Death of Sir Davis Amess MP: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I extend our deepest sympathies to the wife, daughters, family, friends and constituents of David Amess. To be murdered in that way is really horrific, terrible and tragic. It should certainly give us all pause for reflection. As others have alluded to, whatever about political differences and the need for robust debate, a critical part of our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over years now, I have repeatedly asked about the social housing income thresholds being raised. I have been told by the last Government and this Government that they are being reviewed. This review has been going on for years and we are never given a date for when it is going to be completed. I have to draw the conclusion there is a systematic policy to cull people from the housing list...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Get rid of the thresholds.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island unit. [50785/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [46801/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [50786/21]

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area, if you find yourself having to rent a place, you are, by definition, in a housing crisis unless you are very rich. The average rents are €2,200 per month. To be honest, you would be lucky to find a place for that and rents continue to rise. Let us think about that. You would need after-tax income of €26,000 to pay the average rent in my area. That is completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met and will next meet. [47961/21]