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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is disingenuous.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful to the Taoiseach in his consideration of the question I asked, the proposed amendment to the Constitution seeks to define the common good as specifically including the right to secure and affordable housing and further requires the Government to prioritise the allocation of resources and its policies to vindicate that right. There is no compulsion to live in social housing as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach considering changing or inserting serious conditions and penalties in public contracts and public procurement where firms awarded contracts by the State are found not to be in compliance with the tax code, are fraudulent in their tax affairs or are, as is the case, I would argue, with some accountancy firms here encouraging tax avoidance strategies for wealthy people? I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: About public procurement and public contracts.

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in budget 2018 extending the homemaker's scheme to ensure women who took time off work to raise their families will not be at a loss; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39629/17]

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will we receive the report on how we will deal with discrimination against homemakers who brought up their kids in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and who, because the homemaker's credit does not extend back to those years, are being discriminated against in their pension entitlements? I refer also to the issue of the averaging of pensions after former Minister for Social Protection Joan...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the question of where the additional money can be obtained, I accept that additional money is needed, but I will tell the Minister where it can be found. The employers' PRSI contribution in this country is so far below the norm elsewhere in Europe that it is shocking. In fact, the big gap in tax revenue by comparison with most of our European counterparts is precisely the shortfall in...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I repeat that in parliamentary questions last year and again this year we confirmed that if we created a new band for employers' PRSI for people who are employed on incomes over €100,000, it would result in hundreds of millions in additional revenue. That would be fair and would help to generate money. Another big area is tax relief for wealthy pensioners. Hundreds of millions of...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in budget 2018 restoring both reduced rates of jobseeker's payments for those under 25 years of age in order that they are equal to those over 25 years of age and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39630/17]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely discriminatory. What happens, for example, if somebody gets a job and then loses the job, but the job that he or she had and the earnings that he or she got from that were what enabled them to put a roof over his or her head, then that person loses the job through no fault of his or her own and then is back to the half-rate of a jobseeker's payment? That person is then...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only if their benefit contributions are sufficient.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are supposed to be allowed ask supplementaries.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The subtext of the Minister's response is that young people just want to sit around collecting money.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the subtext.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the implication of what the Minister is saying. The reason young people have taken up employment is not because the Minister cut their benefits, but because young people want to go out and work. They want meaningful, properly paid work, which is very difficult to find, and work that will enable them to pay to put a roof over their heads is even more difficult to find for many young...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister more or less said it.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share time: eight minutes for myself, seven minutes for Deputy Bríd Smith and five minutes for Deputy Coppinger. It is a shameful decision of the Government to decide not to support a Bill to insert the right to housing into the Constitution. In doing that, the Minister...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to assert the dominance of ideology for the sake of it because this crisis is too serious but is it seriously a coincidence that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael refuse to support inserting the right to housing in the Constitution when 84% of people in a randomly selected Constitutional Convention said we should insert the right, when all of the housing NGOs say we should assert...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Risk Assessments (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct insurance companies to reassess the risk of flooding based on the Office of Public Works flood risk maps for the area of Abberley, Killiney, County Dublin and not on outdated flood risk information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39558/17]