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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government could change the number of contributions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The woeful lack of effective, joined-up action on the housing crisis has prompted civil society to take the sort of joined-up action that is necessary. That will be made manifest on 7 April when trade unionists, civil society groups, homeless groups, construction workers and all those affected by the housing crisis - these are the same people who can offer solutions to the crisis - will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where will we get the workers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have enough working in construction. That is why we cannot build enough houses.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to raise the issue of Palestine. I echo the comments about Ahed Tamimi and the horrendous treatment of a child and her mother protesting against the illegal and immoral occupation of Palestinian territory in defiance of any notion of a two-state solution or international law and yet we continue to allow Israel to effectively act with impunity. I want to talk about Gaza, the...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will follow up on my statement and the questions about Gaza with which I concluded. Jerusalem was discussed at the Council meeting, but I would like a response on the issue of Gaza. I do not know whether the Minister of State can tell us much about what the Minister, Deputy Coveney, did there last week. He met some people, but they were linked to one faction, namely, the Ramallah-based...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not rehearse the debate about PESCO again. As the Minister of State knows, we are against involvement because we believe it is the slippery slope towards involvement in a European army. The Minister of State and the Government dispute that but I will not get into that debate now. What exact commitments are we going to have to honour as a result of this? The Minister of State and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which persons (details supplied) were exempted from the stipulations in section 22 of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 for senior public officials when they left office to join private public relations firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54650/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the threats or blocks to the status of British citizens living and working here in view of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will make up the shortfall in funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) by the HSE lottery grant scheme in 2017 which will prevent it from implementing projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for an organisation (details supplied); his plans to increase funding to the organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54667/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 739. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for children seeking special needs assessments for disability; the way in which these waiting times tally with the times outlined in the Disability Act 2005; the way he plans to ensure that these timeframes will be adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54668/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if there is scheme similar to the fair deal scheme for persons who would prefer to stay at home and receive their care there; if not, the other supports available to a couple, one of whom is in need of 24-hour care in the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54805/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the options open to a person employed by the HSE who would like to make a protected disclosure regarding practices in their workplace that they are of the view are covered by the whistleblowing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54916/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief, because I have to speak in the House. I am against the property tax. I never saw the rationale for it. I am of the view that it is a regressive tax. I do not expect the witness to agree with me on that. For the record, facts are important. At the time the property tax was first introduced, there were a number of justifications for it. I have not checked the records,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is €61.7 million.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will be part of the review.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry for being rude but I have to run across here.

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since I was first elected to the House in 2011, I have been warning the Government that the failure to build council housing and the policy of selling off land and assets by NAMA, which could have been used for public and affordable housing, would generate a disastrous housing crisis. For the first few years, the Government completely dismissed that warning. Now that we have a housing...