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One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask in all honesty what does the Government have against lone parents. What it has done to them to date and is now proposing to do to working lone parents can only indicate a vindictive desire to attack lone parents and their children. The facts speak for themselves. No matter what way one tries to spin it, since the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, started to make...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on; we have been protesting since 2012. We spent hours here with the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We spent hours here with the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Reports (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the most recent Forest Service reports into Coillte's corporate governance, carried out on an annual basis as part of the Forest Service's regulatory remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26101/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current amount of tree-cover in view of the recent removal and regenderation of scrub and natural woodland linked to the single farm payment criteria and the pressure on woodlands caused by Food Harvest 2020's focus on targets to increase production by 50%, on the basis of assumptions relating to digital mapping systems and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if chronic obstructive pulmonary disease support will be made available in Tralee in County Kerry, in Tullamore in County Offaly and in County Wexford, through the appointment of respiratory physicians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26453/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to target early diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is the fourth leading cause of death; the specific investment to tackle the scale of the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26454/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a commitment to roll out the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease outreach programme, to manage patients at home, and reduce hospitalisation, from the current 12 acute hospitals to all the acute hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26455/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting times, and to ensure every respiratory unit operates an ongoing pulmonary rehabilitation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26456/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Long Term Illness Scheme, in order that patients with this disease may avail of medical treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26457/15]

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In many ways, this Bill is an admission of defeat and fear on the part of the Government and a tribute to the unprecedented popular rebellion and mobilisation that has taken place against water charges over the past year. We have come a long way from when the water charges were first mooted to be introduced by this Government, when there were many threats and much bullying talk, which was...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Mulherin is absolutely right when she says NAMA has failed spectacularly to deal with the enormous housing crisis we now face. While she does not say so explicitly, it is an implicit and severe indictment of the Government because it has allowed NAMA to behave in the way it has. Many of us on this side of the House have been saying since we arrived here and the Government took office...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fundamental problem with NAMA is its mandate. Everything else flows from that. It is important, in demanding the necessary independent investigation of the sale of its assets, to note that there are a hell of a lot of questions to be answered about the large portfolios which have been sold off at a fraction of their par value and whether the public interest was protected. All of this...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have thought about this since Committee Stage, and when the Bill is added together with the social housing strategy it would be fair to say it is something of a pincer movement to force the further privatisation of social housing. If local authorities are levied for a failure to develop lands in their ownership, and if they do not have the money to build social housing because the central...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am reading the figures from the Minister. How can they be explained? From a total of 15,000 housing units next year, only 1,400 will be new council houses. That means 10% of the social housing that the Government has indicated it will deliver next year will be council housing, with slightly over 80%, taking into account the returned units, being sourced from the private sector. This, in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality on the case of a person (details supplied), if the panel of barristers has reviewed all the papers and material it planned to examine in this case; the papers and material it has examined in view of the fact that the person's legal representative has failed to get clarity in this matter despite extensive correspondence with the Minister; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), the reason there is no record in either the High Court or the Circuit Court of any court action being initiated by Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and the person concerned; if this suggests either Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is misleading him, or is Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), the way in which Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company arrived at its decision that it had the authority-power to establish a company without the knowledge of its shareholders, something which is not in compliance with the Harbour Act 1996, the very Act which established...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that persons (details supplied) were on the board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; his views that their actions represented a fundamental breach of trust between him, as the shareholder, and the directors involved, and if their position is now untenable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27408/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the date persons (details supplied) were appointed as directors of the Irish International Diaspora Centre Trust Limited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27409/15]