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Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister needs to look into the issue of whether there are court proceedings. My understanding is that there is none. The Minister is being told a porky. He should simply ask the company if there is a court date and if an actual court hearing is due. He will find out there is not, so they are not telling the truth. That is my understanding and the matter needs to be checked. ...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, the operating loss, not to mind the huge increase in losses, is equivalent to the excessive salaries, fees and expenses that are being paid to an executive that has essentially run this company into the ground. That in itself, on a financial basis, is the reason for its dissolution and the need for it to be put under council control. In that way, we can have some real oversight...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing I would like to believe more than that this plan will deliver. Everybody in this House wants to solve the problem, and how could they not, given the scale of hardship and suffering for homeless people in emergency accommodation or those who have been waiting on housing lists for 15 to 18 years with little or no hope of ever being housed? However, when one looks at the...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not mention vulture funds specifically, but it talks about those who will build large-scale rental property. Those are the vulture funds, the people who bought up land and property and own it. The most telling confirmation that my assessment of this is right came when I asked the Taoiseach earlier today if he could tell me how many local authority houses would be built under the...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Gino Kenny showed up. It is not in the report. The bulk of the report is about the housing assistance payment, HAP, and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. I disagree with the principle of HAP, but for the desperate people coming into my constituency office daily I would like to think I could say, "There you go. It's not a council house, but it's something." I can tell the...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know from my own locality that they are not. I read these figures out the other day and will do so again. Even with the Minister's increased rent caps or HAP limits, rent levels in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown for a single one-bedroom dwelling are €1,800 per month, which is double the Minister's limit. Why would a private landlord enter into an arrangement with the Minister for a...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just gave them to the Minister - build council houses.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe he envisages for the transfer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour in line with the Harbours Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22476/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme Appeals (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports available to a person who cannot work due to illness in order to pay their mortgage in the absence of the mortgage interest supplement which is being phased out (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21966/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Awareness (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider placing signs in places of recreation where ticks are prevalent in the Dublin area and other counties to raise awareness of Lyme disease as per the Health Protection Surveillance Centre campaign in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22277/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Traffic Control Services (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 845. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the proposed night flights that are to be redirected over south Dublin on runway 16/34 from September 2016 for a year are acceptable and necessary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22571/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 906. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to encourage workers to stay here, in view of emigration figures still running at 23,000 persons, per annum. [20699/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, is it that we are not getting to the other groupings?

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not affect us. Workers have no country.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We think people are entitled to have a Border poll if that is what they want. We have to listen to the people in the North as to whether that is what they want.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called "consultation". It is called "listening to people". It is a legitimate question but it does not help when Deputy Adams mischaracterises the position of People Before Profit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He suggested we were opposed to a Border poll but we are not. It is one thing to have a Border poll but it is another thing to win it and there is no point in posturing about polls that one knows will not be won or will not even take place. James Connolly said the working class were the incorruptible fighters for Irish freedom. In saying this, he understood that unity meant having a...

Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only metaphorical ones.

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (20 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific plans she has to assist struggling small businesses, particularly in towns that have felt the adverse effects of the proliferation of large multinational retail chains; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22777/16]