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Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not get it finished tonight.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who knows.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be through in the morning. This is quite an important amendment. It speaks to how seriously we take the question of conservation and who we think can help inform a policy or a conscientious approach towards the management, conservation and protection of our water resources. I made the point already that the first answer to that question lies with those who work in water...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion and the "Prime Time Investigates" team for highlighting the issue. The landlords who exploited and profited from the conditions that we saw on "Prime Time Investigates" are just animals. They are flipping animals and they should be in prison. Nothing like that should be tolerated. They are the lowest of the low. What is scandalous is not just...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on her Department's response to a review (details supplied) of the amendments to the one-parent family payment and, in particular, its impact on child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43793/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 655. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons engaging in mental health services that have complaints about service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45802/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 661. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) can be referred for treatment to a specialist of neurology in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45826/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Data (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the drop in funding from the Health Service Executive national lottery grant scheme to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45848/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1093. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 516 of 17 October 2017 and 183 of 27 September 2017, when a formal response will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45772/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the case of a person of 62 years of age who has recently lost their job and has been invited to participate in JobPath but is not allowed to take up part-time work in their chosen field and instead is expected to find work for 30 hours or more a week in another field; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the invalidity pension of a person (details supplied) has been stopped in view of the fact that their condition has remained the same and is likely to continue to remain the same into the future and evidence has been provided of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45828/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice in the film industry of certain companies hiring unpaid runners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45831/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangement between her Department, JobPath, a company (details supplied) and Turas Nua; the mandate that these companies have regarding jobseekers; the details of the contracts with these companies; if there is a pay by result remuneration for each jobseeker that gains employment through the scheme, if so, their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a scheme to facilitate persons on the housing list in Dublin to move outside of Dublin and take vacant properties in rural areas if they wish to do so; if not, his plans to set up such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45799/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we move towards the close of the debate on this Bill, it is important to recall how we got here and what this was all about. In this debate, and over the course of the past three years, all sides have tried to put their spin on what it was all about, and that spinning continues with people trying to put forward a particular interpretation of the facts. The most ironic, almost laughable,...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure everybody knows it.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody knows it.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not repeat the name because the name is very familiar.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Denis O'Brien.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what was going on. It was only because of the mass movement of resistance on the streets that the plan was scuppered. In so far as anybody played a role in here, it was only those who participated in the Right2Water campaign. I am proud that some of the political forces in the Dáil were involved in that. Some of the early organising meetings of Right2Water took place here...