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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all in favour of jobs but the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy does not have responsibility for jobs. There is another sub-committee with responsibility in that regard. Perhaps the Taoiseach will clarify the position but I was of the view that the work of the sub-committee on social policy relates to addressing poverty and social inequality and ensuring that all citizens will...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the sub-committee not failing in its duty? The indicators of squalor and poverty in the 19th and early 20th centuries were lack of access to secure, decent and appropriate housing and clean water, resulting in disease, high infant mortality rates and so forth. That is the direction in which we are currently heading as a result of the fact that the Government is removing the basic and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly was not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What if they are still living in poverty?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What if they have jobs but still cannot pay the bills?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was talking about social indicators.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Brilliant. The bond markets love it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not impacting.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course I do not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If only works if they can pay for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are left for even longer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Government not put them to work building social housing?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not doing it.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The amendments deal with an issue that is at the centre of the controversy surrounding the Bill and what it means for people on the housing waiting list. As I indicated in conversation with Deputy Dessie Ellis just before this debate started, while the thrust of what he is trying to do with the amendment is right, in that it deals with an issue that is central to the Bill and addresses a...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Others did. Mr. Simon Brooke of Clúid stated it on radio the other day. He made the point - there has been a suggestion by the Minister of State to this effect - that we had not kicked up about this issue when the RAS was first introduced. The implication is that we are making a mountain out of a molehill and that, despite what we claim, there are no problems with the Bill. However,...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a contradiction in what the Minister of State just said. On the one hand, she says a person such as the one I described would have to take priority but, on the other, she is saying people in the HAPS can apply for a transfer and, based on the number of years waiting, can have a reasonable expectation that the position in respect of those years of waiting will somehow be preserved.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can those two things be true at the same time?
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the point. In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, for example, which I am sure is much the same as anywhere else, there will be two houses allocated this month, if we are lucky. There are already approximately 25 people on the priority list in dire circumstances. Their cases are similar to those I have just described. Therefore, the only choice available to the local authority is to...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State saying that, of the two houses that will be allocated, one will be allocated to the person in absolutely dire circumstances while the other will be allocated to people on the basis of their time waiting?
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That will not happen and cannot happen. If we are lucky, there are two houses allocated per month. Consider the case if there were five-----