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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Data (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set down the full cost in 2017 of abolishing water charges. [28027/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2017 of restoring the young persons JSA rates of €100 and €150 per week to the standard rate of JSA. [28029/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the full cost of the arts budget in 2016; and the cost of increasing arts funding to 0.6% of GDP. [28031/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of reducing prescription charges to €2 and separately, the cost of reducing to €1.50 and to €1 per prescription while retaining the cap of ten prescriptions as a maximum. [28030/16]

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would support it also.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said we support that debate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the European Council President, Donald Tusk. [27125/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

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Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will comment on what I see as the stunning lack of self-reflection and self-criticism from Donald Tusk and, for that matter, from the Taoiseach. Donald Tusk said in his speech here that people are turning against what they perceive as an irrational openness and that they see the world around them getting more chaotic with uncontrolled migration and terrorism. First, these are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the criticism of Britain bombing Syria 43 times in the past six months? Where is the criticism? There is none.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the criticism of US, French and British arms sales to the Saudi regime that has killed 10,000 people in Yemen? Where is the criticism? If there is no consistency in our humanitarian standards and in our opposition to bombing and war, then we have no standards, and everyone knows that it is no more than opportunistic and cynical.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the disaster in Syria, what is happening in Yemen and so on not an opportunity for Europe, the Government and, for that matter, Deputy Martin to start having a little consistency in their human rights standards?

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we support bombing of Syria by the West?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Campaigns (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the referenda he proposes to hold during the term of Government. [27126/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting since 2013 for an application for naturalisation to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if persons signing tenancy agreements under the HAP scheme will automatically be put on the council transfer list; when the HAP scheme will be rolled out fully in the four Dublin local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28111/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the additional funding allocation he has received in the context of the housing crisis and the Government's commitment to increase capital spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19757/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Bodies Establishment (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider a national building agency that would directly employ builders to spearhead a public housing building programme in view of his concerns over housing supply, noted in his Department's draft national risk assessment report, and the risk this poses to overall competitiveness and social inclusion....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Home-makers Scheme (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the home-makers scheme in relation to pensions has not been extended to home-makers pre-1994; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the legislation for calculating PRSI contributions in relation to contributory pensions to disregard short-term or summer employment at the time of entry into the system in which it causes a large gap in contributions and hence lowering the yearly average of contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28215/16]