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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fact that the Minister is now acknowledging that the Department should have informed schools but did not is an admission of a cover-up. That is what happened. If I understood the Minister correctly, the cover-up has been ongoing since 2008 when it was first discovered that there were problems in some schools. Some of the problems were identified as early as 2008, but was it in 2015...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, will next meet. [39620/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask the Taoiseach again about the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016, whether it was discussed at the health committee meeting and the decision of the Government and its representatives on the Joint Committee on Health to support stopping the Bill even though it had passed Second Stage. As a doctor, how can the Taoiseach stand over a report that is essentially...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And ignored all the other advice.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish Water.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to formally move our amendment.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the important parts of the motion, which is included in our amendment as well, is to call this a national emergency and to declare a national emergency. I put that in all seriousness to the Minister. The type of dramatic, radical action that is necessary is simply not forthcoming. We talk about tweaking Rebuilding Ireland. While some of the measures the Minister has announced may...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would never do that, would they?

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should commence our contribution by taking a drink of water because the people who wanted to bring in water charges - Fianna Fáil first and then Fine Gael - wanted to put a price tag on this glass of water. In fact, there has been a running joke with the ushers here. Every time we have asked for a glass of water over the past four years, they have said, "Have a glass now before they...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly, although there probably would have been subsidised prices for water in the Dáil.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They might have been subsidised prices here but they would have been charging us for the water. That is what people recognised. Setting aside all the disingenuous propaganda from the Government about the environmental reasons for bringing in water charges, people knew, and they were right, that the real agenda was to put a price tag on this in order that, at some point, someone could...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate with Tusla the steps taken regarding a report in 2016 of mental, physical and sexual abuse by other service users and staff circa 2010 to 2012 at a charity made by a person (details supplied); and if she will further investigate the complaints of the person that reports were not taken seriously or investigated...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not wish to spend much time on matters that have already been covered, such as the intricacies of medium-term objectives and the fiscal rules. I will concentrate on a view I hold and which was also expressed by a number of witnesses during our deliberations on the budget, which is that the fiscal space available, notwithstanding debates on whether we should recalculate it this or that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about the financial cost of it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister compared, from a financial point of view, the efficiency of direct build as against HAPS? Direct build gives the State an asset and revenue stream, whereas the HAPS payment is money out that we do not recoup. Has the Minister done any mathematics on that? Again on housing and property, given the limited fiscal space and the need to raise revenue for housing and other...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister give us the answer to the financial question on the housing expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask one brief supplementary question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister confirm there is a change in the balance of public housing output as envisaged in Rebuilding Ireland? At present, Rebuilding Ireland proposes 87,000 houses will be delivered out to 2020 through the housing assistance payment as opposed to 40,000 through various forms of direct provision. This is two thirds to one third, with two thirds being current expenditure going out,...