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Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was presented some solutions.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. May I?

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If there is nobody else here, I would like to speak for a longer time because there is no subject that frustrates and taxes me as much as this one, and it has done since I came into the Dáil in 2011. There has been much debate about this issue for a number of years. I will not start with the general picture, although I will come to that later but much of that ground has been...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I could have gone on much longer.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who has been awarded a disability allowance on appeal, can have the award backdated to March 2015 rather than January 2016 as has been decided by the appeals office. [21746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given priority for special footware; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/16]

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the more than 100,000 families and households rotting on housing lists for 15 years and longer and the thousands of families suffering the cruelty and hardship of homelessness, I regret to give my opinion that this document is an incredible disappointment. At best, it is yet another mirage and false dawn for those who desperately need solutions to the housing crisis. At worst, I believe...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know the Taoiseach cannot.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is pretty elementary.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not know this was questions to People Before Profit - I thought it was questions to the Taoiseach. It could not be more telling that, in answer to the most basic and elementary question, the Taoiseach cannot tell the House how many council houses the Government intends to deliver. That confirms that we are just getting a rehashed, slightly upscaled version of the Kelly plan. There...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give the Taoiseach the answer. The number is 53 while 600 joined the housing list.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach cannot give me the numbers.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need council houses.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of the recommendations were rejected.

Nice Attacks: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit and the Anti-Austerity Alliance I extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of the people who were massacred in Nice and those who were injured, some of whom are still in a critical state. The actions that claimed their lives were utterly despicable, unconscionable and unjustifiable in any terms. While we do not...

Other Questions: Road Improvement Schemes (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It was my pen.

Other Questions: Road Improvement Schemes (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is somebody else's turn.

Other Questions: Road Improvement Schemes (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is up to the Minister to group them.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in his deliberations on the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour, he will be taking into account the series of questions that were raised with his predecessor with regard to anomalies in payments to the chief executive and a board member of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the five years of the last Dáil I asked a litany of questions about what I consider to be serious concerns about the corporate governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Payments of expenses to directors turned out to be irregular and where the money was supposed to be refunded, it was not. Extra payments were made to the CEO and the saga of questions goes on. I am not sure if...