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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the suggestion that he made at the weekend that there was something called a welfare dependency culture? He has just made the same implication about people languishing on the dole as if there is some voluntary element to it and that forcing them into what he laughingly calls labour activation measures by cutting social welfare payments for 22, 23, 24 and 25 year olds is actually the way...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that fact? Some 40,000 people are leaving the country every year because there are no jobs, not because they are lazy. Is the Taoiseach not ashamed to be in a Government that oversees 40,000 of our best and brightest people leaving per year? Does it not have an obligation to make the investment that would create real jobs, not pretend jobs or a massaging of the figures? Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: After the Taoiseach's usual blather.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was insulting them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Open the doors on emigration.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk to the finance officials.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If there were more jobs, there would be more GNP. It is a simple fact, but there is none.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will believe it when I see it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give the Taoiseach the names of plenty of brick layers who are looking for work.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was in Fine Gael's election manifesto.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NewERA and 100,000 jobs.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Stock (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 370. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of new houses each local authority has acquired in each of the past ten years; if these houses were new builds or acquired through the National Asset Management Agency or any other available scheme; his plans to build or acquire new social housing over the next five years on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 371. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update regarding the announcement made on 19 July 2012 that his Department would be allocating €100 million for social housing which would result in the provision of 800 new units across the country; the number of units that have been completed in each local authority area; and his views on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 372. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make the necessary changes to the configuration of homeless services which creates a strict division between Dublin and Wicklow in view of the close relationship between the towns of Dn Laoghaire and Bray. [44675/13]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's Government has again and again talked about the objective of exiting the bailout and has tried to lure the public and the media discussion into a belief in the idea that if we exit the bailout things are going well, the Government is a success and that we are on the road to recovery but what is clearly apparent now, as the Minister, Deputy Noonan, goes scurrying around meeting...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the reality. It is going to kill our economy for decades because the Taoiseach never asked for a write-down of a debt that is not ours. Instead he continues to pedal the message here and in Europe that everything is fine, we are not defaulters, we are the good boys and girls of Europe who will do whatever we are told no matter how painful and unjust it is for the population of this...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from that last sentiment, I equally have little confidence that the Bill will deal with this matter. People from all sides of the political spectrum repeatedly state they want improvements in local government. Undoubtedly, this sentiment is shared by the majority of citizens. Sometimes, people spit the word "council" in the same way they spit the word "politician" because of...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just in full flow.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the housing crisis which sees 110,000 families and individuals on the housing waiting list and ten new persons presenting to homeless services in Dublin each day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44772/13]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Minister of State that her social housing policy is a total shambles and a disgrace. Earlier she mentioned 4,000 new social housing units, mostly through leasing arrangements where we are subsidising private landlords. That does not even cover half of the increase in the numbers on the housing list, which has now reached 110,000 families and individuals - it had been 100,000...