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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am being told by the workers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if the staffing levels are unsafe.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that the staffing levels are unsafe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses are probably not going to acknowledge this point but it is worth saying, because it is what everybody else thinks, that it is not just about what the State could have sold the loans at had we held on to them but it is also about what it could have used them for instead of selling them. To my mind this is the biggest scandal of it all. The State had the biggest property...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much of that is public and affordable, or is it mostly private?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know Senator Higgins wants to get in, but I will very quickly ask another question. Mr. Carville stated that approximately 6,000 units are in the long-term category.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will conclude on this point. It is crazy that we are being asked to look at this legislation before we know all the detail of precisely what is happening with what NAMA has, what could be done with it and the options that are available. All of it should be maximised to deliver social and affordable housing as quickly as possible. It should be serviced and whatever needs to be done to it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Carville's response is appreciated. I thank Senator Higgins for allowing me to conclude.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 822.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 was intended to disallow a person on a probation bond from access to the social housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 858.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how co-living is defined in legislation in terms of the minimum length of stay below which it is no longer a co-living tenancy but a short-term stay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35404/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 994.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of applications and actual payment of domiciliary carer’s allowance for carers of people with invisible disabilities, i.e., autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35251/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1060.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time it takes to process international protection applicants from South Africa; the length of time to process appeals to refused leave to remain in the State; if they are entitled to legal aid when being interviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[33941/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Workplace Relations Commission (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1855.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Section 39 workers who are funded by his Department were excluded from the pay restoration agreement between the Workplace Relations Commission and the HSE and therefore have not received said pay restoration; if he commits to ensuring that Section 39 workers funded by his Department receive pay restoration; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1900.To ask the Minister for Health the number of new recruits in St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park and St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown during the period 1 June and 3 September 2024; the breakdown in each hospital of the title and number of those positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35708/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2066.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way an XL bully dog will be identified given that there is no defined breed standard in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35712/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the third time, I ask the Taoiseach - he gave me a commitment, but I have not heard back from him - about taxi drivers who have reached the ten-year deadline to replace their taxi. It is a very expensive business to replace a taxi. As I pointed out, people who were approaching that deadline during Covid-19 got an extension but only for certain years. Drivers of cars from 2015, 2016 and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and credit with the banks and so on. The Minister for Transport is not coming back; he is not being positive. Will the Taoiseach ask him to give the extension to those who lost income and employment during Covid?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [36723/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Central Bank has followed the Housing Commission in telling us that our housing needs are twice - maybe more than twice - what Housing for All projected them to be. That is how inadequate the Housing for All plan is. To meet these targets, we have to double housing output. In particular, we have to dramatically increase the social and affordable housing component of that because what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [36722/24]