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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the planned changes to FÁS mean that the Gateway community project in the north inner city, which offers FETAC-certified courses to young women recovering from drug addiction, will no longer be able to continue offering these courses in view of the fact that FÁS is no longer a registered...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government how children's welfare will be protected in the new social housing policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26069/11]

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mortgage and negative equity crisis is absolutely massive. It faces at least 115,000 people who either are in arrears or, as a result of their mortgages being distressed, have had their mortgages restructured. Moreover, this may only be the beginning of it or, at least, there may be much more to come if the economic situation deteriorates further or if more people get into trouble....

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What social housing?

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You must be joking.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I run clinics every week.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is welcome to visit my next clinic on Monday.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the Minister's information, I run a clinic every week and I am opening an office on the main street in Dún Laoghaire.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: None of the Fine Gael Deputies in our area runs clinics, however. They do not have to deal with people coming in to them. Does the Minister agree that the Keane report got it badly wrong given that it fails to utter one word of criticism of the bankers for their role in this crisis? Given that its guiding principles do not say anything about the culpability of bankers, developers or Fianna...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In directing the debate in the coming days, will the Minister state that the majority of people with distressed mortgages are victims of a problem that was created by bankers? They do not have an obligation to pay back inflated debts which resulted from the gross distortion of the property market by bankers' reckless lending and developers' irresponsible behaviour. Does he agree that is the...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am nearly finished. How is it that €24 billion was put into the banks to guard against the worst case scenarios, including €8 billion for negative equity and unsustainable debt?

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to finish the question.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not cost the public or the taxpayer any more to write down the negative equity. The banks will face the cost but that is why the money was given to them. Unless we take that course of action we will cripple our economy when it suffers the real cost of hundreds of thousands of families saddled with debts they cannot pay.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of them were questions.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why were the mortgage holders blamed then?

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government needs to get a move on.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome that.

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should they have to plead in front of a judge for leniency in respect of debts that were forced on them?

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans for regulating bodies and persons in view of the sizeable role that voluntary housing associations, private landlords and developers will be playing in the new social housing policy [30408/11]

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A shocking 96,000 people are on housing waiting lists, many for as long as ten years. Most of the people on the list believe that at the end of their unacceptable wait they will get a council home with proper standards and a housing authority that is accountable to the public in terms of the condition of that housing. They do not realise that the Minister ended those hopes in June with his...