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Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister made a statement today saying that some-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Members are not worried about the golf club.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when local authorities will receive details of housing grant allocations for 2015; the number of houses he expects to be built by councils; if he will provide a list of the breakdown by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9078/15]

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of recent reports indicating a significant rise in child poverty and deprivation, particularly in the instance of lone parents, if she will abandon all plans to make changes to the one-parent family payment scheduled for July 2015. [9388/15]

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened to some of the Tánaiste's responses in terms of the impact of her budgetary measures on lone parents in recent years, but is it not the case that facts do not lie and that the plight of lone parents and their children has worsened in the past two years as a result of those measures? The number at work has fallen and the number suffering deprivation has increased. The number...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste has already been forced to backtrack on the cut to half-rate carer's allowance affecting the 800 lone parents who are carers because Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids, SPARK, exposed what was about to happen. I suggest she do the same in respect of the loss of income that lone parents who work part time will suffer as a result of the abandonment of the one-parent...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we get rid of the red herrings? More than most, lone parents know that it is better to be in work if they can find any because it makes them better off. The proof of the pudding is that before the Tánaiste started her cuts in 2012, most lone parents were working. She is now putting pressure on them to leave work because they will lose up to 20% of their incomes. I am not saying...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And if they work 20 hours or more, they will lose.

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was.

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department accepted the figures.

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a similar vein, I wish to oppose these Estimates and the overall philosophy that lies behind them. I agree with Fianna Fáil that it is suspicious and problematic that we are not having a proper discussion on these Estimates, which are being rushed through in a very short amount of time. We spent a great deal of time talking about tax changes when we debated the budget, but it seems...

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would love to do so but we never get the chance.

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with this legislation, I feel like saying, "Welcome to the 21st century, but not quite; welcome to culture and civilisation, but not quite." In so far as discussing the Bill and the possibility it will be passed moves things forward, it is a tribute to the very long struggle of transgender people. Alongside the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015, the upcoming referendum on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on her review with regard to the possible loss of earnings of up to €86 per week to a person in receipt of the one-parent family payment and the half-rate carer's allowance; if that person is required to move to a full-rate carer's allowance, due to the changes to the one-parent family payment scheduled for July 2015; and...

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should not forget to plant a few more trees.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the deepening financial difficulties faced by Dún Laoghaire Harbour, if there is any justification for the continued existence of the harbour board, and the senior executives, with all the associated costs; his views on integrating the front-line staff, under direct council control; and if he will make a statement on...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is a quango that has failed and should be dissolved forthwith. Its history is 18 years of jobs for the boys at the top, with lavish salaries and expenses, who have run the harbour into the ground. We have had another nail in the coffin with the Stena service being withdrawn. I am asking the Minister if we can simply dissolve Dún Laoghaire Harbour...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been asking about this issue for the past four or five years. I am very glad that we are moving the harbour company back under council control. It is something we have been calling for in Dún Laoghaire for a long time but the issue left hanging by the former Minister, Deputy Varadkar, was whether it would be a corporate subsidiary or directly under the council. The former...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In achieving that, I ask that we do not have a CEO of a company with 20 staff who is paying himself €150,000, including expenses, a year, other executives who are paying themselves €100,000 a year each, or chairpersons and directors who between them over the past ten years have taken €100,000 to €40,000 in expenses. One can go on through the list. Millions of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers Development (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of Stena Line's withdrawal of its service to Dún Laoghaire, and the subsequent announcement of the abandonment of a plan for a National Diaspora Centre, his views on developing a sustainable strategy for Dún Laoghaire harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9880/15]