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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Waste Management (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the environmental and health impact assessments which have been carried out in relation to human biosolids being used as fertiliser; the regulations in place on the storage and spreading of this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28229/16]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which graph are we on?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a nagging feeling about this whole session. I am wondering exactly what we are doing here. I know that all this technical work has to be done. When the witnesses say that the risks are all tilted on the downside, it is at that point that I begin to wonder the extent to which all of this goes out the window if certain of those risks materialise. What precisely are we supposed to do...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can he tell us anything about the distribution of that income? Average income can mean very little when we are talking about people at the top doing very well but people at the bottom not doing so well. What does it really tell us and can Mr. McCarthy tell us any more? My reading of the economic growth, and I suspect the feeling of many people, is that the benefit of economic growth is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With regard to the share and distribution of income, wealth and growth over time, there has been much debate about whether it is regressive. It depends on one's definition of "regressive". That is one debate. However, one way to examine these matters is to chart things over time, examine what proportion of income is going to capital and labour and whether that changes over time and look at...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that trend continuing? Perhaps Mr. McCarthy might put a figure on it. My understanding is wage share has dropped by approximately 20% in favour of profit.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In respect of corporation tax, one of the arguments about Apple at the moment is that if we were allocating profits fairly they would not be allocated here but to where the intellectual property was developed. On the other hand, Mr. McCarthy says we are going up the value chain because representatives of some of these companies walk into the companies registration box and, with the stroke of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. McCarthy suggested that the movement of the intellectual property had something to do with the knowledge box initiative of the Government.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was the IP ever in Ireland? Is it in Ireland or is it an accountancy trick?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was never there, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will they all be local authority units?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his plans for mixed-tenure social and affordable developments on publicly-owned land, outlined in Rebuilding Ireland, will effectively mean the privatisation of publicly-owned land; his understanding of what constitutes affordable rental and the way in which this differs from the current local authority housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am seeking to ascertain why the Minister, who says he is committed to delivering social housing to deal with the housing emergency, is proposing to give away two thirds of public land - I refer to land on which 100% council housing would previously have been developed - for private housing that is called affordable rental or affordable. If I understand this correctly, two thirds of any...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I beg to differ. I think it is precisely ideological. I will give the Minister an example. The site of the former prison at Shanganagh Castle in Shankill is owned by the council. Some 550 units can be built there. In the past, 550 council houses would have been built there. As a result of the Minister's proposals, some 180 council houses will be built and the other houses will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two major sites are being developed in my local area at the moment. In the case of a development of 1,800 houses, there will be just 180 social houses as a result of the Minister's 10% rule. There is private housing. I want people who want private housing to get private housing.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting just 10% for social housing. The balance could be redressed at the next big site, which is publicly-owned, so that we get more social housing, but that is not going to happen. We could have got 550 council houses at that site, but instead we are going to get 180. If there are 180 council houses at one site and 180 council houses at the other site, that means there will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Deputy not to intervene. Some 2,000 private houses are being developed at these sites. The proportion of social housing is falling all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is going to accelerate that by allowing two thirds of public land to be handed over. When he says this is a matter for the local authorities, is he telling me that my local authority can choose for all of those units to be social housing? Under the public private partnerships, will the actual title to the land be handed over to the private developers in the case of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It means people on the list will be waiting longer.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.