Results 401-420 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State's suggestion to bring both functions together in a one-stop-shop but the discretion community welfare officers have in sanctioning rent allowance is worrying. The vast majority of CWOs are good, decent people but problem cases arise because they have discretion rather than being subject to clear guidelines about people's eligibility. This matter needs to be...
- Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 44: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans to improve or accelerate social housing provision in the current economic climate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11589/11]
- Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the Minister of State will agree it was a scandal that the previous Government oversaw an unprecedented property boom during which up to 90,000 houses were built annually but left a legacy of 50,000 people on local authority housing lists, which is an astonishing indictment of its performance. Can he assure the House that the Government will not oversee an equally great scandal...
- Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not clear about the Minister of State's reasons we cannot proceed in the manner I outlined. I accept what he said about economic constraints but this is a financially positive move for the State. We will save money if we invest in NAMA housing stock or build new social housing to house those on housing waiting lists. Surely that is a safe bet in terms of capital investment. We have...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the Taoiseach's statement and the statements of many people in the media and elsewhere about the importance of the visits by the Queen and President Obama, the cost and the various issues that have arisen, I am surprised there will not be an opportunity for statements to be made in the House.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a genuine question. There has not been enough debate. Given the huge cost involved and the major impact it is having-----
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----are we not going to discuss it at any stage?
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On another matter-----
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should stop barracking. I am asking a question. Another matter I raised previously was whether we would have a chance to debate the McCarthy report on the sale of State assets. The Taoiseach suggested that we discuss it with the Whips. It was raised at the Whips' meeting but we were told there is no appetite to discuss the report and the sale of State assets. Will we get a...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was for three minutes.
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 72: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons and families that will be deemed ineligible for social housing under the new Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act that were previously deemed eligible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11590/11]
- Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 409: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders signed on each particular day that such orders were signed in the past six months. [11845/11]
- Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of mental capacity legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7919/11]
- Order of Business (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In answer to Deputy Higgins's question yesterday on the taxi industry, the Taoiseach indicated there would be a review of that industry. Does he envisage legislation flowing from this to improve regulation of the industry? Will he ask the Minister to consider checking the vehicles that were checked by the staff who have been suspended?
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify his response to Deputy Micheál Martin? It is still not clear to me where the buck stops on the State assets we will have to sell at the behest of the European Union and the IMF as part of their package. Who will make the final decision? Deputy Brendan Howlin and other Ministers may have an input, make recommendations and examine the McCarthy report. Surely,...
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief.
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For example, the report suggests that harbours and ports are not strategic assets in an island nation.
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is crazy.
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it extraordinary that a Government that prides itself on fiscal rectitude and the need for it does not have an estimate for the security and associated costs for the visits of the Queen and President Obama. Should we take it from the Minister's response that the Government has essentially given a blank cheque to the Garda and any other organs of the State involved in facilitating this...
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last Saturday I was demonstrating against the Syrian Government.