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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the delivery of the Part V requirement at the Cherrywood SDZ is front loaded in order that a minimum of 800 council managed and owned units will be delivered in the first tranche of 2,000 homes due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35916/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of plans for public private partnerships in housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35917/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if councils should proceed with traditional build social housing in order to ensure there are no delays with regard to councils that are awaiting details of the rapid delivery procurement procedures before they proceed with housing plans on specific sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35918/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been available for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to draw down and the amount that has been drawn down for capital spending on Traveller accommodation over each of the years 2011 to 2015 and to date in 2016; and the way these figures compare with all other councils across...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the advice he would give a person (details supplied) who would like an inquiry into the death of their baby infant in Temple Street hospital in 1966 shortly after birth in view of the fact there was no autopsy and the fact that they never received any remains and did not receive a birth or death certificate until 2000; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the National Centre for Pharmaco-Economics report that the drug Orkambi prolongs life by a median 7.4 years, 2.45 QALY and the cost-effectiveness threshold of €30,000 per annum, if he will advise of the average cost and lowest cost per annum charged for the drug in the EU; if the HSE will make an offer to the manufacturer in view of...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 25:In page 27, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "14.The Minister for Finance is to order a study to be carried out on the operation of Relevant Contracts Tax, particularly in relation to rise in self-employment in the construction industry, and is to report to the Dáil within six months of the enactment of this Act on the findings of the study.". I...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will still press this. Primarily because of the actions of workers themselves protesting, backed up by some of the trade union movement, there have been some moves in this direction. What the Minister seems to have said, if I heard him correctly, is that when audits are done and when there is a bit of an increased focus on this we end up getting more money in, and the Minister mentioned...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government. [36051/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government, under the heading of "Health", states, "Efforts to increase access to safe, timely care, as close to patients’ homes as possible will be a priority". Among other things, I assume this refers to the importance of home care and the need to address its provision because the service has been savaged since 2008. There was an increase in funding in the recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is left in the total allocation for Question Time?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we limit it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the foreign leaders he is planning to meet between now and Christmas 2016. [36049/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is about the talks with foreign leaders. I was very surprised to read the Taoiseach's tweet at the weekend in which he said he had a really great conversation on the night in question with US Vice President-elect Mike Pence. He stated Mr. Pence certainly knows Ireland and the issues that matter to our people. To be honest, that is a pretty shocking statement. Does the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has to speak out against the use of that kind of language.

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I intend to press this to a vote. I want to respond to some of the responses the Minister gave to me this afternoon on the issue of bogus self-employment. His answers on the number of people categorised as self-employed in the construction industry were disingenuous and bordering on misleading the Dáil. I have been trying to establish the precise facts on how many are in the RCT...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The massive extent of losses being carried forward by banks and other big enterprises to write down their taxable income and consequently reduce their tax liability is an unbelievable scandal. There are many other mechanisms and loopholes through which the corporate sector can write down its tax liability. The scale of it is truly staggering and points again and again to the need to impose,...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe it is the Deputy's time to speak. Is it? I do not think so.

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is strange that for the past five years we have been raising this issue and when the Deputy was in government, strangely enough, they did not implement it.

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. They did not implement an effective rate of 12.5% but now they are apparently the ones who invented the proposal. I am glad that they have had a bit of a conversion on that issue because it is an absolute scandal. From figures just pulled from the Revenue website today, the full figure for losses brought forward in 2014 is extraordinary. It is over €215 billion. It is...