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National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, Deputy Ó Cuív wants to play Dublin off against the country. As an urban Deputy I want to see rural Ireland protected and I make the point that in order to do that we do not privatise or bring to bear commercial priorities to services such as public transport. If we do that - we are doing it - bus services and transport infrastructure will be cut to those areas. Post offices...

Other Questions: Regeneration Projects Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in the community.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he envisages reaching the housing assistance payment, HAP, targets in Rebuilding Ireland in view of current rent prices and supply problems in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45301/17]

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is envisaged that there will be 17,000 HAP tenancies next year. How on earth is the Government going to achieve that given the extent of rents, in particular in parts of Dublin? They are far in excess of HAP limits. I do not see how the Government can possibly deliver in the areas where they are needed most the HAP tenancies the Minister imagines will be delivered next year.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all very well setting out the theory and the plan. We know we have not met almost any target set by this Government over recent years.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not being met in my area.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want the Minister to answer me, not just give me the script. While I am sure other Members will say the same about other parts of Dublin, in south Dublin in particular there is no chance of securing significant numbers of HAP tenancies. There are 14 properties available to rent in total for everybody in the Dún Laoghaire area, the cheapest of which, a one-bed, is €1,400. The...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If HAP works in certain areas, happy days. I am delighted with anything that keeps people out of homeless accommodation. However, in south Dublin, accommodation is not available under HAP and I would like the Minister to address this. I would like Government Members to get this into their heads. There is quite a lot of expensive accommodation. Ten times more rental accommodation is...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister kidding me? People are fighting each other.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the process that homeless persons must go through when there is no placement available for them from the DRHE to be satisfactory in view of the chronic shortage of both emergency placements and hotel and guesthouse accommodation; his plans to make changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an affordable housing scheme to guide councils in providing affordable homes and to ensure that affordable homes will remain affordable into the future, even if there is a change of ownership, will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the roll-out of a fully staffed full-time place finder service for those looking for a home; when it will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45300/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he envisages the affordability requirement of LIHAF funding being delivered across the country and in Dublin in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45299/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (26 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that racial profiling is not taking place at immigration controls in the airports and ports; the guidelines that are provided to immigration officers as to the way in which persons are selected for questioning at passport control as against those that are simply waived; if figures or records are kept on the...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. We have had a break for a week and the issue of the Paradise Papers has arisen. They had already been referred to and might more accurately be called the "Parasite Papers". They reveal a really shocking nexus of bankers, wealthy individuals and corporations dodging taxes. According to some reports-----

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be unconscionable for the House not to debate these shocking revelations this week. I did not raise this issue for discussion today because I knew I would have been doing so at short notice-----

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but I am signalling to the Taoiseach that I hope the Government will facilitate a serious discussion on the matter, in respect of which billions of euro in tax revenue are at stake, and the shocking revelations about-----

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the collusion of banks, possibly of legislation brought in by this Government, and wealthy individuals in tax evasion.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made my point, indeed.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.