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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review the receivership regime to establish protections for tenants whose landlords go into receivership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16155/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on all rental accommodation scheme and leasing tenancies across each local authority including the rents paid on each tenancy, the size of each house, the length of each contract, the expiry date of each contract; and if there are any tenancies where the contract has expired but the tenant has remained...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 771. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to refurbish St Elizabeth Court, Care Facilty, North Circular Road, Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18824/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 942. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve the application of a college (details supplied) for a sports capital grant to build an all-weather, astro turf sports facility to replace the existing pitch which is forty-four years old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19112/14]

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last night, the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, described the housing and homelessness crisis as a matter of concern. I put it to her that it is not a matter of concern; it is an emergency. The first step in resolving this crisis is for the Minister of State to recognise it as a crisis that is now becoming an emergency. I acknowledge that she inherited the problem from the...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another family-----

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not cut into my time.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another family-----

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another family-----

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not naming them now. Just leave me alone.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop playing political games.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are cutting into my time.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Leave it, Deputy Halligan.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A family comprising a mother, a father and their eight children are sharing a two bedroom house with a sister and grandmother. There is nothing from the local authority. Another family in the Gallery, with seven children, is getting a variation on the rent cap on a month-to-month basis but is being told this will not last. They will face homelessness if the rent cap policy is applied....

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would save money for the State because it would get extra rental revenue. Fr. Peter McVerry has pointed out that the €100 million being spent to change the traffic lights at Newlands Cross would build 1,000 houses at current market prices. This year, we are going to spend €9 billion to pay off the debts of bankers. Can the Government not tell Europe that we are going to...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----fact that the banks are being put before human beings. We appeal to the Minister of State to start building council houses, guarantee that all people will get a roof over their heads within an accessible distance of their children's schools-----

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and provide the emergency assistance that people need so they are not homeless and sleeping in cars or hostels on the other side of the city.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give a full report on the rental accommodation scheme and leasing tenancies across all the local authorities with regard to the duty of care the local authorities have to the tenants and the impact of rising rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19565/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his short term plans to deal with the rapid increase in homelessness; the full costs of using hotels as emergency accommodation; the numbers of persons in this accommodation per local authority; his plans to acquire new emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19566/14]