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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will elaborate on a further example. I mentioned the man with early-onset Alzheimer's, who is also in a housing assistance payment, HAP, arrangement where he had to pay a top-up. Before getting Alzheimer's, he was working and could make the top-up. Since he got Alzheimer's, he cannot work or make the top-up and is falling into arrears. No appointment was possible. With our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will certainly do that. The other case I mentioned is also complex. I will not go over the details again but, just to be clear, it concerns a woman with cancer whose husband cannot turn down the heat and so has big bills. Because she is on illness benefit, she is not entitled to fuel allowance and, therefore, got none of the extra payments for that allowance. This is terrible stuff. ...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many damning facts and statistics show the shameful failure of this Government to address the diabolical housing and homelessness crisis in this country. I will use some of my time to tell the Ministers of State about the human reality of their failures and the misery it is inflicting on people. Watching this debate at the moment is a woman called Jackie. Jackie and her husband are in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the new report on rapid-build housing published by his Department. [57890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any allowance for utility bills can be made for those who are hosting refugees in their homes given the rising costs of energy bills and the pressure this is creating for many families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6378/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the reason for delay in regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants scheme; when the remaining outstanding applications will be finalised; if he will provide a breakdown of nationalities who get approval and who are still waiting for their applications to be finalised; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options open to a person who has been granted refugee status and has now been granted under the family reunification unit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6226/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the approximately 60 private households in a location (details supplied) can avail of the electricity grant when their landlord is on a commercial account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5819/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if publicly funded fertility care, as outlined in the programme for Government, will include treatment options for single women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the assessment of needs for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5695/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the services in place for medical card holders and GPs with GMS lists who are seeking to provide vasectomies; if appropriate training is in place for GPs wishing to provide such a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5964/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can explain the reason a Coillte-owned company (details supplied) based in Clonmel is charging all its Irish MDF customers more expensive prices for its products compared to its customers in England. [6000/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In one of the richest countries in the world we now have tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of people dependent on food banks for food. Hundreds of thousands of people are now in arrears with their energy and utility bills. Some 12,000 people are officially homeless in emergency accommodation, but actually the numbers are multiples of that. I believe the Government's...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----introducing rent controls and, crucially, stopping evictions into homelessness.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they going to food banks if they are all doing so well?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the people going to food banks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [5891/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is involved in a brazenly naked illegal occupation of Palestinian land and territory. This week, its cabinet authorised further illegal settlements on land that, under international law, is designated for the Palestinians. In the first month of this year, 50 Palestinians died in what was the deadliest month we have seen in decades, with the Israeli army running constant military...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel does not recognise Palestinian elections.