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- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason we are having this debate is that I pressed for six weeks at the Business Committee to schedule a discussion on the progress or lack of it on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. That follows six years of Fine Gael Government since 2011, during which time I and others, week in, week out, told five different Ministers that the Government's policies were...
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, that has to change.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well said. I agree with the Deputy, except for the jibe about Trotsky.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have been gouging people for years.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rubbish. Most bin services were privatised long before then.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Bin charges were in place for eight years by then.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's dishonesty will not-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Acquisition (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a response from the Christian Brothers regarding the playing pitches at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31797/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Acquisition (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a formal offer to the Christian Brothers to hand over the playing pitches at a school (details supplied) in lieu of some of the moneys owed to the redress board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31798/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will bring forward the legislation to allow for equal access for all children to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31578/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review all school lands and examine the way in which to protect the lands for the use of schools into the future, in view of recent issues that have arisen with regard to the sale of lands at schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31799/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitments in the programme for Government to improve the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the legislation his Department is planning to introduce. [32517/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Another shameful statistic has emerged in the utterly shameful record of this Government on the issue of housing and homelessness. We now top the league table in Europe for the proportion of women who are homeless. The number of women as a proportion of those who are homeless is 48%, which is approximately 10% higher than the next highest in Europe. This is shameful. I have looked at the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a drop in the ocean.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The clock applies to all of us. The Taoiseach was right to acknowledge that there was something to be investigated given the outcome of the trial of the Jobstown defendants. I welcome that he did so. This is all in the public domain. The evidence was aired. There was a flat contradiction between objective video evidence and statements made by three very senior gardaí. There were...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What if a crime has been committed?