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National Cultural Institutions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to debate the vital importance of arts, culture and our heritage. Arts and culture are not optional extras and should not be measured by financial or economic metrics. It is not too grandiose to say that arts, culture and heritage are what make us human and define us as creative beings. They are what separate us from every other species on the planet. Treating...

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the situation whereby if a housing applicant in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown unable to find rented accommodation in the Dun Laoighaire area due to the new rent allowance caps and finds a home in Bray or North Wicklow area within the caps, is then forced to move from the housing list in Dun Laoghaire to the housing list in...

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case of a person who is unable to access rent allowance in Bray without forfeiting their years on the housing waiting list in Dun Laoghaire and cannot find a home in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown because of the rent caps and as a result is forced to live at home with their mother and leave their children with other...

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on how successful the new rent allowance caps have been in forcing landlords to reduce their rents. [31228/12]

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As far as it goes, this Bill is welcome. Anything done to provide extra finance to small and medium enterprises and any effort made to stimulate the domestic economy should be welcomed and supported. There is nothing to oppose in the Bill, as it is an effort to give some support to the small and medium enterprise sector and to the domestic economy. However, if the aim of the Bill is to...

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's finger is in the dyke but the cracks are growing.

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to put a serious argument to a Government which is failing to address the unemployment crisis. I would be amazed if Deputy Humphreys did not believe the domestic economy is on the floor or that we have a real problem with our banks. If the banks do not start lending this €90 million fund will not even begin to address the problem. How many businesses are likely to succeed,...

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a consequence of campaigning by families currently in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance, the Government has agreed to review the threatened cuts to that payment. This development is most welcome.

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will deal with it as I see fit.

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I will.

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making a point.

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point I am making is that in the same way that this group of people-----

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----put together an organised protest, people who are affected by the cuts to the rent supplement scheme are also getting organised. I hope the Government will respond in the same way to their campaigning efforts. The effect of the reduction in rent caps is that people are being threatened with eviction and driven into the homelessness services. The Government claimed it would force...

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister of State's response reflects the best that the Government is prepared to do, there will inevitably be protests by those affected by these changes. The reality is that in many parts of Dublin - not just Dublin 2 and 4 but also Dún Laoghaire, much of south County Dublin and elsewhere - and in other cities such as Galway and Waterford, it is simply not possible to secure...

Rent Supplement Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are people sitting in the Public Gallery today who are victims of this situation.

Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 20: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans to reduce the numbers on the housing waiting lists, which currently stand at 96,000; if he is proposing a maximum waiting time for housing applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31219/12]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be provided in 2012 and 2013 in each local authority; the manner in which they will be provided whether by direct provision of council houses, by leasing arrangements with private landlords or by discussions with the National Assets Management Agency; if he will...

Swimming Pool Projects (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, in the interests of promoting tourism, to ensure that the full plan to restore the baths in Dun Laoghaire is able to progress immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32103/12]

Swimming Pool Projects (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 2004, in the biggest demonstration since 1921, 5,000 people marched in Dún Laoghaire to demand that the council abandon proposals to build a ten-storey private apartment block on the site of Dún Laoghaire baths and force a commitment from it to restore the public swimming baths. The demonstrators later forced it to commit to a plan in this regard. After a long delay and endless...

Swimming Pool Projects (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dún Laoghaire seafront is a national tourism asset of great significance. Dublin is the biggest tourism hub in the country. To develop the seafront in Dún Laoghaire and provide amenities there is of national significance. There was widespread support across the city of Dublin for the campaign against the privatisation of the seafront and to demand the restoration of Dún Laoghaire baths....