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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a payment for clothing to a person (details supplied) under the supplementary welfare allowance was refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35201/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Data (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to release the full and detailed breakdown of Irish armament and dual-use export licenses granted to companies exporting to Israel since 2011; the identities of export companies; the full details of the items exported; the end-receivers of said exports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35340/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Contracts (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Construction Contracts Bill 2010 becomes law in the life time of the current Government, the deadline for the selection and appointment of members to the adjudication panel; if there will be representatives from groups like the Business Retail Union of Ireland on the adjudication panel; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council met before the budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31769/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is advising the Economic Management Council on the economics of housing? Whoever they are should be sacked. We are facing the worst housing and homelessness crisis in the modern history of the State. No matter how much the Government talks about it and makes announcements, it gets worse on a daily basis. Under the Taoiseach's stewardship, the housing lists have gone from 96,000 to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that supply equals demand, because it clearly does not?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not work during the boom.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not work during the boom. Rents went up.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should sack DKM. It is rubbish.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish. The Taoiseach should sack them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach needs another adviser.

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apparently, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan will not be present. As the refugee crisis unfolded, someone told me that the tears of sympathy would soon dry up and policy in the EU would revert to type. That is starting to happen. The barriers are being raised again against refugees who are fleeing desperate circumstances. Fortress Europe is being re-established. There are many aspects to...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with the Minister of State. It is to the credit of the political class and to Irish society, more to the point, that the overwhelming response to the refugee crisis is one of compassion and solidarity. I accept that point. However, the thrust of many of the questions and contributions directed at the Minister of State is to ask why Ireland does not raise its voice more loudly and...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Europe is, as is America.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the barristers panel review of a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35282/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the barristers panel review of all the cases it is dealing with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35283/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 701. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence exchange agreement has been reached with British Columbia in Canada which would allow a Canadian national resident here with a full British Columbia licence to apply for a full Irish licence, given that agreements already exist for other Canadian provinces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36341/15]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. We will take ten minutes each. The financial emergency measures legislation was used to cut the pay of public servants. It was an instance of the utterly savage and unjust gouging of the incomes of those who are, for the most part, low-paid or middle-earning public servants. They were asked to pay a cruel price for the crimes of others. This was accompanied, of course, with a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (22 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the issue of funding being withdrawn from the Oasis Project in Mounttown Resource Centre in Dún Laoghaire, which will leave vulnerable teenagers without a much needed service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35528/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings he has had or discussions he has had with other European Union leaders in respect of the current refugee crisis and the response required from the European Union and its member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31765/15]