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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just a cover for privatisation.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money projected to be spent on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, housing assistance payment, HAP, and long-term leasing programmes over each of the years 2017 to 2021, listing the cost of each programme separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28687/16]

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my opinion, the dirty little secret about Rebuilding Ireland is that the majority of the so-called social housing the Minister intends to deliver will, in fact, be private housing. It will not work in the form of HAP. I was doing a tot on the graph on page 46 of the Minister's Rebuilding Ireland - an Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. Approximately 80,000 of the social housing...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not getting an answer. My figures were broadly correct. That scale of outsourcing of social housing to private landlords will be ramped up again and again to a total of 111,000, as outlined by the Minister, through the HAP scheme, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and leasing. That is what he just said. That will happen between now and 2021. That is set out in Minister's...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking at the Minister's graphs and at the figures he just gave me.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not answer the question regarding how much it will cost. If I picked him up wrong there, correct me. Under this plan, how many houses will be delivered up to 2021 by the HAP scheme, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and long-term leasing? I ask him not to tell me that he does not have estimated figures of how much that will cost the State. I can tell him that it does...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to correct the record with respect to an earlier remark. I want to stress that we are in favour of affordable housing; we are not against it. The Minister will not be able to deliver that unless he does what the Keane report proposed in the 1970s, which is to take control of all building land and make sure that we set the prices because the last affordable housing scheme failed...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only some do not.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there no costings?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the options for local authorities for the tender process; the reason for the recent delays in the houses planned in Cherry Orchard, Darndale, Finglas and Drimnagh; and the projected unit cost for all such homes to be delivered in 2017. [28689/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. 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 the average nine-month timeline for the procurement and tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28690/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the options available to local authorities when negotiating with private developers on the social housing Part V component of private developments; the way in which local authorities may be able to increase the social housing component beyond 10%; the way in which a reasonable profit for the developer will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the numbers of houses that will be directly built by local authorities, as against approved housing bodies, over each of the years 2017 to 2021, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28688/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the required funds for a project (details supplied). [28899/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 5 July 2016 and a subsequent reply received from his Department, the actions he will take to ensure access in general to home care packages for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28896/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to reports of the cruel mistreatment in China of greyhounds that have been sent from Ireland, including some dogs being boiled alive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28897/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately halt the transporting and trading of greyhounds from Ireland to China due to the cruel treatment that these dogs experience in transit to China and once they reach there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28898/16]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider ensuring those on carer's allowance are afforded the full benefits of a PRSI stamp in order that in the event of the person they care for no longer needing care, they would be eligible for jobseeker's benefit and the other benefits afforded to those working full-time who lose their jobs; and if he will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a straightforward, fair and reasonable request that carers, who do an enormous service to this State by caring for the disabled, sick, old and infirm, would be acknowledged and afforded the full benefit of a PRSI contribution. This would mean that when they finish caring, they would be entitled to non-means-tested benefits, which would be fair and would acknowledge the hugely...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Although I am not doing so, it would be very reasonable to ask for carers to be paid the minimum wage, at least, for what they do, or alternatively to be paid an amount equivalent to how much it would cost the State to provide home care packages if carers were not doing this full-time caring job. The State is getting this service from carers for €204 a week, or approximately €5...