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Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Acting Chairman ask the Members opposite to stop interrupting me?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The building of social housing would house the people who have no roofs over their heads and will be homeless over Christmas. It is not funny.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would generate revenue for the State. It would save in terms of social welfare expenditure.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would put people back to work. It would genuinely stimulate the economy and it would pay for itself. The Taoiseach knows the maths. We are paying out half a billion a year, €600 million if we include leasing arrangements to private landlords. That money will come back to the State and we would save money by putting construction workers back to work, allowing them to pay tax. We...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot believe the Taoiseach is heckling me so much.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a suggestion for the Taoiseach. I suggest he does that because his policy is to give tax incentives to property speculators again. I cannot believe it.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is causing a rent bubble in Dublin that is directly contributing to homelessness and is giving monopoly control over property in Dublin to big corporate speculators.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, it beggars belief. Lastly, I have a genuine request. Four hundred workers at Lufthansa are facing the loss of their jobs. Lufthansa is a German company and all the workers want is a fair redundancy package and for a €12 million deficit in their pension scheme to be filled by the company. It made €261 million in profits last year and it has massive accumulated...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not heckle while the Minister of State is speaking.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Health after the revelations of top up payments in the Central Remedial Clinic, if he intends to hold an investigation into this practice in all agencies and services under the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54100/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the new Health Service Executive service plan, if he will provide a full report on the progress of the implementation on the disability act including an update on the national roll out of network disability teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54099/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the recent top-up scandals if he intends to investigate significant unexplained extra payments and expenses, due to be returned, to executives and board members in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54608/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked the Minister questions on the goings-on in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company on numerous occasions since I entered the Dáil and I have not really got the answers. I have asked questions about the unexplained €19,877 paid to the CEO of the company by himself explained as money in lieu of holidays. I have asked questions about whether expenses wrongly claimed by a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a question to him earlier this year in which I asked about the additional payment of approximately €20,000 to the CEO of DLHC, the Minister said the explanation given to him was as follows:The additional payment of €19,877 relates to payment in lieu of untaken holidays or untaken leave. My Department wrote to the chairperson, whose term has ended, stating that we did not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is accepted that the €20,000 approximately should not have been paid. Will it be repaid? The Central Remedial Clinic scandal of top-up payments which were in breach of the cap and which rightly caused uproar is under investigation by the HSE because it is a body that is within the remit of the State. Should this not apply to all semi-State companies, including a small company...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ridiculous.

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's intention to charge people for the water they need to drink and wash is utterly despicable. That is why it has chosen to take the equally despicable decision to ram the Bill through the House a few days before Christmas. It is cynical in the extreme. The Government is perpetrating a heist and trying to cover up the robbery of one of the most precious and vital resources...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the planned integration of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company into Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council will take place; the way this will be structured; and if it will involve a review of management practices. [54401/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Staff (19 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on any and all pension schemes available to employees of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company; they way they are funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54402/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The context for this hearing is the sense of outrage people who have been hit with property taxes and are soon to be hit with water charges feel when they hear money they would expect to go to fix leaking water pipes, provide reservoirs and improve water quality, may be going to line the pockets of highly-paid consultants and executives in Irish Water. Furthermore, our Government was trying...