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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I visited a large estate last Saturday - I will not name it because to do so would cause panic - in which there are 1,000 timber framed multistorey units, which are a major fire hazard. I was accompanied by two people who have expertise in this area and were of the view that these units are a fire hazard, which was brought to the attention of the authorities some time ago. There may be many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not trying to do that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but I am very worried about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who would make these inspections?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was one very specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if, notwithstanding the Minister's target around taking people out of hotels, in some cases hotels are better than hubs. In some cases hotels are better than hubs, in particular if the hubs are long distances from where people's children go to school. We must not let a target trump the best interests of children and families by insisting that they go to hubs when a hotel, while far...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is okay to send children 12 km to go to school?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The mother and children are the best-placed people to tell us that rather than us telling them what to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are travelling 10 km or 12 km.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I brought to public attention the Robin Hill apartments, which to my mind demonstrate everything that is going wrong with policy. NAMA sat on 15 empty units in this development for a number of years. The council tried to obtain those units from NAMA but it was refused them. NAMA sold the development to Cerberus, people are now being evicted and the 15 units remain vacant. Also, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true. It was given by the Department of Justice and Equality for social housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to stop contracting companies in to build for the councils. That is what we always did in the past.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like that, but in the absence of that what previously happened is that councils built council estates, bringing in McInerney or Collins or whoever it was to build these estates. We did not have to give away two thirds of our land to get houses built on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the changes he plans to implement in his Department. [29819/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While I am aware that he ran out of time, he did not answer Deputy Gino Kenny's question regarding Charlotte Connolly. Given the life-threatening nature of her condition, she and her family deserve a response from the Government. In terms of changes in the Department of the Taoiseach and sub-committees that will be established, under the previous Taoiseach there was no education...
- European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope we will all be shown the same latitude.
- European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am quite amazed at the bland, anodyne, passionless statement we received from the Taoiseach about the challenges which face the European Union, some of which are dire and which include issues such as migration, global security and economic and social challenges. That bland, anodyne, passionless account, which says nothing at all about what was discussed at the European Council except in...
- European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are we supporting this ramping up of European military and defence investment? Should we not be speaking out against it? An annual increase in spending for the defence fund of €5.5 billion is being spoken about. Are we not speaking out against the development of a bigger arms industry? Is any concern being expressed about the huge sales of arms from a number of quarters to...