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- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Industrial Relations Issues (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reforming the anomaly in the industrial relations system where workers who go through the full third-party system of rights commissioners, the Labour Court and the Employment Appeals Tribunal and receive awards from all bodies are left empty-handed by employers who close down but do not go into formal receivership or...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the lines of communication between his Department and RIA; the frequency of meetings; the procedures for dealing with issues that occur in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17534/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place in direct provision centres in circumstances of deaths of residents in terms of notification, burial and communication with other residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do the witnesses agree that alarm bells need to be rung about the current housing crisis? How would they characterise the housing crisis? It strikes me that with rising rents, the cuts in rent allowance and the chronic lack of provision of social housing, significant numbers of landlords are pulling out of the leasing arrangements the Government hoped would deal with the provision of social...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from that, the other model hoped for was that leasing arrangements with the private sector would work. However, in many areas of Dublin the landlords, even if they entered into agreements two years ago when they needed tenants, are now pulling out of those because they are not a good deal for them. A big pillar of the plan, therefore, has collapsed and I do not see how it can...
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How many of the landlords involved accept rent allowance? Is it one?
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When it is the Government going to do that? When is it going to build council houses?
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The first step in solving this problem is for the Minister to recognise that an emergency exists-----
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and that emergency measures are required to deal with it. I have been informed by officials from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council that, for the first time ever, they have nothing to offer families seeking accommodation. They cannot even provide homeless accommodation. The officials in question are just telling people to go away. What is the Minister going to do about this?...
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do so every day.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it has nothing to do with landlords.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should give money to the local authorities to allow them to do that.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Please.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael and Labour control those local authorities.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: NAMA is the cartel.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer the question.
- Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a major crisis in the national ambulance service - a crisis that leads to deaths. The estimate is that one person per month dies unnecessarily as a result of the under-resourcing and the cuts that have been imposed on the ambulance service. It does not get any more serious than that. People are dying unnecessarily. The cuts the Government is imposing - not just the recruitment...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the dramatic rise in rents in urban centres, and in Dublin in particular, when she will review the caps for rent allowance; if she will meet with representatives of the four Dublin local authorities and senior staff from community welfare to discuss the real impact on local authorities and the community welfare service of these rent...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of the rent allowance programme. [16752/14]
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Universal health insurance is another con. It is another regressive tax to be imposed on people who are already struggling and already burdened with a massive tax burden, whether it is the universal social charge, all sorts of indirect stealth taxes and charges, bin charges, the planned water charges, VAT on everything people buy or parking charges. On top of all that, the Minister is going...