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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not ask you, Bernard.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People who have worked in the water infrastructure system for decades have told me that just one district meter, rather than hundreds of meters, could cover all the households in an estate or a local area.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They can be used to determine how much water is going into that locality.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy does not want to hear this because it drives a coach and horses through the Government's argument.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will you please ask him to shut up, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They know what the average usage for a household is. If it exceeds the amount of water going into a particular area, they can work it out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: By the way, it measures the amount of water in the pipes going into the area, rather than the amount of water between the meter and the household. It is more effective. A much smaller number of meters is needed. It is much cheaper. Did the Economic Management Council discuss things like that? Can the Taoiseach confirm that Siemens offered to do the whole thing much more cheaply? I...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the Taoiseach's role in it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not saying that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The State should have paid for that, too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They should not have to.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach also investigate the possibility of installing the district meters to which I refer?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We know where he is.
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin Members for sharing their time with us and raising this issue. I commend the Government for not opposing the motion. It is absolutely vital to recognise the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and statehood. It is a sign of the advancement of the Palestinian struggle that recognition is growing across the world. I would not have become...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons people are absolutely furious and have come out onto the streets in recent weeks and will come out again in huge numbers tomorrow - it is not just about paying water charges - is the dishonesty in politics, with political parties, Governments Ministers and Taoisigh thinking they can play the people for fools. The people are very angry about this. Every now and again the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the recent downgrading of the STEP Enterprises service run by St. John of God's; the relationship between the JobBridge scheme and this service; if allowances are made to allow persons participate in the JobBridge scheme while on a disability based payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47204/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 435. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the recent social housing strategy if he will provide a breakdown of the 35,000 homes that are planned for the period to 2020; if he will also provide a breakdown of the number of these that will be directly built council houses, with a breakdown per local authority; the number that will be provided for by...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to move 75,000 families and persons from rent allowance to the housing assistance payment scheme by 2020; if he will provide the full details of this scheme; the number of applicants per local authority and per year; the details of discussions to date with landlords; and if these applicants will be removed from...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 437. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the expansion of the housing assistance payment scheme, the new resources he will be providing to local authorities to deal with the increased work load this will bring. [47187/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 438. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the approved housing bodies taking an expanded role in social housing delivery; if he will be putting in place more comprehensive transfer policies to allow for families that grow in size from when they are first allocated homes. [47188/14]