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Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For two and a half years I, and others, have been appealing to the Government to acknowledge the fact that we have a housing emergency in this country and that it needs to take emergency measures to deal with it. One aspect of that is the promised delivery of social housing units from NAMA. Could the Minister tell us how many social housing units we are getting from NAMA? The delivery...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister of State for her answer but when one wades through those figures-----

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, and I appreciate the Minister of State's giving them to me, but when one wades through them, we have got 596 units out of a promised 4,300.

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only 496 have been delivered. Others may be in the pipeline or approved as suitable but, given the fact that NAMA has this enormous property portfolio, this is pathetic, particularly against the backdrop of 96,000 families languishing on housing lists for, in many cases, over a decade. Is the Government on top of what NAMA is doing? At the weekend we discovered that much of this portfolio...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Much seems to centre on what NAMA puts forward as suitable. I take the point about properties in the middle of nowhere being of little use to anybody on the housing lists but is NAMA holding back the good properties because it wants to flog them off to speculators such as Lone Star, Apollo or Kennedy Wilson, which we have recently discovered are in the process of bidding for or buying up...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I and many others have previously made clear, people are in dire straits. I refer to those who are on the housing lists, those who are being pushed into homelessness and out onto our streets, those who couch surf and those who live in desperately overcrowded conditions with other family members. These people have no possibility of getting a secure roof over their heads. It is not an...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department issued a policy document in July 2012 in which it was stated that direct provision of newly built social housing was being brought to an end and that it would in future rely on leasing arrangements with the private sector. At the same time, rent allowance supports and caps were reduced. I remember the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, promising us in this House...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was done by Fine Gael.

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt that Gateway is a blueshirt fantasy. Those in Fine Gael must be becoming terribly excited about the prospect of forcing people to work for next to nothing. They probably dreamed about this for years but never thought they could get away with it. Suddenly, however, they have their opportunity. They are going to displace real, proper, permanent, secure, well-paid and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide full details of the rental accommodation scheme tenancies and all tenancies under various leasing arrangements across each local authority, including the details of moneys paid to private landlords each year over the last three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11917/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols regarding bullying in schools including any protocols surrounding teacher/pupil bullying. [12245/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the situation where over 40 visually and audibly impaired children in the areas of Roscommon, Sligo and Donegal have been without the visiting teacher service since December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12306/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the December European summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2215/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the issues of growth and employment at the European Council meeting in December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9169/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What numbers have been grouped?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is actually our turn.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In his discussions on the economic situation in Europe at the European Council, did the Taoiseach raise the issue of the property sector, housing and homelessness? The reason I ask this is that if we were to sum up in a few words the cause of the European and global economic crisis, it could probably be summed up as "property speculation in the area of housing". In the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----as an opportunity for investors to make money. However, this is a human crisis that lies at the heart of our economic problems. In his discussion with our European counterparts, is there any awareness on the Taoiseach's part that treating property as a matter for speculation, particularly the area of housing, is dangerous? Is he aware there are dangerous signs a property bubble could...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We seem to be lining up with dangerous people who have a history of corruption and dangerous far right wing political ideas and saying these are the good guys. We should not be doing this. We should be responsible and recognise this is a complex situation where big powers are manoeuvring for self interest and stirring up ethnic and national divisions which could be very dangerous and are...