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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One question Deputy Pringle wanted to ask was whether it will be possible under the Bill for a company to restructure a pension scheme more than once in circumstances where restructuring is allowed? Owing to a restructuring plan implemented by a company, could one lose 10% to 20% of what one expected and then lose the same again, perhaps on multiple occasions, if the under-funding problem...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a complicated technical matter that is very difficult to deal with.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can a company restructure on multiple occasions with the result that a scheme member would lose out not just once, but several times? The under-funding crisis is another legacy of the banks. One should remember that many of the funds are in trouble because of the banks or investments in banking shares that have now collapsed. Pension scheme members comprise another victim of the banking...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should forget about the potshots and answer the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is the one treating it as a joke.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the rent allowance caps again in view of the recent reports of rent increases in the urban centres around the country; if not, the advice she would give to the thousands of housing applicants and homeless persons who cannot find suitable accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50742/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (28 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the advice she would give to housing applicants and persons facing homelessness across the country particularly in urban areas such as Dublin where rents are increasing dramatically and where little if any private rented accommodation is available within the Department's rent allowance caps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50741/13]
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The report that the number of people sleeping rough in Dublin has doubled in the last while is a shocking indictment of the failure of the Government’s policy in homelessness and housing.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the housing Bill come before the Dáil? I have raised this on numerous occasions but I just get vague answers. Given the current housing crisis, will the Tánaiste bring forward the housing Bill so we can have a policy for the area as well as a proper debate about this most urgent of crises?
- Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Any Government that cannot put roofs over the heads of its citizens and ensure they are not obliged to sleep on the street is not worthy of the name. For the two and a half years I have been in the Dáil, the issue I have raised most consistently is that of the housing and homelessness crisis. I have said repeatedly that the policies of the Government are leading directly to...
- Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There were no answers in the Minister of State's response for the two people I mentioned, or to be honest for the huge number who are being forced into or threatened with homelessness every week. The Government does not seem to grasp how bad this problem is and how quickly it is worsening. I spoke with Peter McVerry a couple of weeks ago and he said clearly that the rent cap reductions...
- Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State's €100 million is only a drop in the ocean.
- Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we at least have a proper debate in the Dáil on the issue?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NewERA Projects (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full report on recent meetings of NewERA. [51706/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (3 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 274. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the planned changes to funding the community sector. [51958/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (4 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has any knowledge of actual production of oil from the Connemara field; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51906/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (4 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Time and again the Minister has told the House that the justification for a low tax regime on oil and for licensing arrangements whereby ownership of our gas and oil reserves has effectively been handed over to oil companies is that we only have potential reserves, not actual reserves. If that is the case, could he explain how this jar of light crude oil, just a small sample taken from a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (4 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will put it down. An oil tanker was filled-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (4 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in 1997. A week's pumping filled a tanker. Where did it go, who took it and did we get any money for it? This is real oil, not potential oil.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (4 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The story shifts as we investigate further. I will quote something that the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, told me a while ago. He stated: "Since the early 1970s, we have had four gas finds and no oil finds."