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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide computer facilities for persons to search for jobs in the Dún Laoghaire social welfare office in view of the fact that the office has had no online facilities for persons to use since mid 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39708/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full cost in 2018 for abolishing the reduced jobseeker's allowance rates for persons under 26 years of age. [39792/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full cost in 2018 of increasing child benefit in respect of children over 12 years of age by €30. [39793/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 793. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum amount a person in receipt of HAP is allowed to contribute towards rent; if this is stated in the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39573/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 794. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person must pay their water bill in order to purchase a local authority house through the incremental purchase scheme, in view of the fact that refunds are now being issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39580/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 797. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy on private tenants in situ in apartments that have been bought by a voluntary housing body when those tenants are entitled to HAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39728/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 798. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rights of a private tenant that is eligible for housing and HAP and who lives in a property that has been bought by a voluntary housing body but is not paying differential rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39729/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed figures for investment in repairing and upgrading the water infrastructure over the coming three years. [39783/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services Expenditure (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 800. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost in 2018 to reduce leakages in water infrastructure from current levels to 25%. [39784/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On what page is that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. McDonnell of the Nevin Economic Research Institute. I welcome the focus on increased investment in child care, education, research and development and infrastructure. I welcome the general thrust of what Dr. McDonnell has said. He said that there is a case for more taxes. Could he be more specific about what he is proposing? Would he agree that the amount of fiscal space is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that at 1%?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the easy life. NERI wants the money but we have to vote for unpopular Bills.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I could make a comment there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Murphy and Dr. Hearne for a great report and for highlighting a number of key issues facing us with this housing emergency. I have a few questions on different areas that the report touches on. I agree with them that ultimately we need to build social housing. If we do not do that, everything else will not work and is not sustainable in the long term. What annual output do we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Dublin Regional Homless Executive (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the witnesses tell me how many people have joined the housing list over the past three years? What figures are available for same? How many new applications for housing have been made nationally? What is the pace of the new applications? Such information has not been taken into account. Anecdotally, in Dún Laoghaire, I can say that there are more applications than planned...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past hour, the media has been reporting that a 41 year old man with ongoing health problems was confirmed to have been found dead. He was homeless and sleeping in a tent with his partner in Bray over the weekend. This is the third rough sleeper found dead in the past number of weeks. I do not know the exact circumstances of this personal, human tragedy for this man and his family...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With every Government announcement and policy change over the past three years, the housing crisis has gotten worse. The number of homeless people and the number of families and children in need of housing have gotten worse rather than better and the tragic deaths of people sleeping rough on the streets continue. Why would a proposal to enshrine the right to housing as a basic human right...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is three years since the Constitutional Convention recommended the right to housing be enshrined in the Constitution.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the seriousness of the housing and homeless crisis and the rather odd decision at the last minute of the Government to withdraw its amendment and vote outright against this Bill, I call for a vote by means other than electronic means.