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- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will commit to raising the issue regarding subsidiary earners on disability allowance being assessed for rent in council tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29510/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider in his deliberations on the new local authority rent scheme removing both disability allowance and family income supplement for subsidiary earners from rental assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29487/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 250. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider disallowing casual or short term work early in a person's life that causes a large gap in their work history and therefore bringing down the yearly average of PRSI contributions in respect to contributory pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29319/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will retrospectively apply home-maker's credits to persons who were home makers pre-1994 in view of the fact that a group of persons are being discriminated against in respect of their pensions and PRSI contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29322/16]
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am going to talk about some of the details of the budget shortly but I feel the need to respond to some of the debate that has unfolded since Tuesday. Interestingly enough, I wish to respond in particular to a number of attacks on AAA–PBP by our friends from Fianna Fáil. True to form as birds of a feather who flock together when challenged, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As was mentioned and as the whole country knows, teachers and gardaí have felt forced to embark on a significant campaign of industrial action over the next few weeks in pursuit of fairness in respect of pay. There will also be mass meetings of nurses over the coming couple of weeks to discuss pay issues. One of the several things at the heart of this looming industrial action is the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The only groups of workers who have balloted on this issue are the ASTI and the Garda representative unions. The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, ASTI, and the gardaí have democratically made a decision and, I suspect, if it was put to the rank and file of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO, and to the nurses, we might have a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They were not balloted.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking about equality. Just answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They were not balloted.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could it coincide with our demonstration?
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it is on Syria.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We pushed for the debate as well.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume the Deputy will be out at our protest tomorrow.
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is one-sided humanitarianism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on arts, heritage and Gaeltacht affairs last met. [30614/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a similar theme, it is quite extraordinary that the committee dealing with the arts should only have met after the budget. That says it all in terms of the commitment of the Government to the arts, in that there was no discussion whatsoever prior to the budget about properly resourcing and funding the arts. This was after we had a major discussion in this House in which Members on all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on health last met. [30616/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is not a supplementary question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a supplementary question. It is a question.