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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered bringing English language teachers or English language schools under its aegis; if she will provide details of any meetings she has had with other Departments, or with stakeholders, on the EDL sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22022/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 880 of 26 May 2015, if she will provide a specific timeframe for the relocation of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin to its permanent building, as the situation is now critical in terms of the conditions at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22021/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the face of it, this is a good idea to avoid the necessity for the people to bail out the banks again by getting the banks to put money aside each year and mutualise it across Europe such that there will be a fund to bail out any bank that fails, meaning that we will not be on the hook again. The principle is reasonable. Banking systems can collapse in big as well as small countries. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand Mr. Carrigan's response. Is there any end to how much we would have to put in to replenish the fund if there was a systemic collapse, if the banks here were dragged down by a big collapse elsewhere in Europe? Would we have to keep pumping money in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was going to ask about the bail-in. Will Mr. Carrigan answer my question directly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From where will the backstop come?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Theoretically, there could be no end to how much by which we would have to replenish the fund if the cost of the collapse in a particular part of the banking system was to far exceed the size of the fund and any bail-ins that preceded it. Potentially, we could have to keep replenishing the fund. Am I right? Mr. Carrigan might say that is unlikely to happen and that it tends to be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the order of the bail-in and the conditions around it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can protected people under €100,000 be bailed in before this mechanism kicks in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who has to pay into the resolution fund here? Obviously, the pillar banks will pay, but will the credit unions or the English banks with subsidiaries here have to pay?

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the actual delivery of new homes for those on the social housing list, if he can provide a breakdown by local authority of the number of homes he expects to be delivered by Part V in 2015, 2016 and 2017; if he will further report on how many Part VIII for social housing have been forwarded to him by local...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most serious crisis facing this country is the lack of affordable and social housing for people. The Government committed to delivering 15,800 social housing units this year. Can the Minister of State tell us if we are anywhere even close to those figures? Certainly, going on the experience of what is happening in Dún Laoghaire, where there will be a total of five this year, if...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Kelly, in a letter to one of our councillors, stated that 15,800 social houses would be delivered this year. As the Minister of State rightly said, the reason he cannot give us figures and the reason those houses are not being delivered is that it is dependent on construction in the private sector. That is the problem, is it not? That is why were not getting the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State can blind us with jargon and with projections and figures. However, based on the Minister's own letter, 85% of what was promised this year is dependent on the private sector - 3,000 from leasing and 8,400 from HAP. It is not happening and it is not going to happen. The landlords are not interested in getting involved in this and the construction is not happening on...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a total fantasy? On the voids, at a meeting last night we were told by someone from Women's Aid that Dublin City Council is saying it cannot get the money from the Government to turn around the voids in the Dublin City Council area.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done it.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are hardly any voids in Dún Laoghaire.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been telling the Government the solution for four years - direct build.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is agreed, but Deputy Murphy definitely will not be here and Deputy Fleming is not here.