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- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The collapse of Carillion calls into question not just the wisdom of public private partnerships, PPPs, in terms of the five schools affected and the Carlow Institute of Further Education. It also gives rise to question regard a range of commitments in the area of school-building, house-building, social housing in particular and capital infrastructure projects as to whether the PPP model is...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is right. The Labour Party, when in government, signed off on the contracts for these schools.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a serious debate about the wisdom of using PPPs to deliver housing, schools and vital infrastructure-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because, as we have seen with McNamara Construction and with the schools in question, PPPs are an accident waiting to happen.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is going to manage the schools? This is not just about construction.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Ireland’s triple-lock will apply to all joint military development or procurement initiatives which Ireland undertakes with other countries under PESCO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3133/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (24 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the triple-lock will be used to ensure that multi-country military procurement which Ireland participates in or financially contributes to under PESCO is approved by the Cabinet, agreed by Dáil Éireann and subject to a UN mandate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3134/18]
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Tánaiste shed any light on the bizarre comments made by the Taoiseach about how young working people are supposed to raise deposits and secure an affordable home to purchase? It is not an exaggeration to say that vast numbers of people are puzzled and infuriated about the Taoiseach's advice to go to the bank of mum and dad to deal with the impossible task of coming up with a...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister needs to get real here. One has to be earning €75,000 to borrow €300,000, and houses cannot be bought in huge swathes of Dublin, as I have just pointed out, for that price. What about the vast majority of people who do not have €75,000 and who, in any event, even if they did have it, almost certainly could not find a house in Dublin for that price? The...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about south Dublin, not the whole of Dublin.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been asking for this debate since it was originally scheduled that the regulations be disposed of by the House without debate. I will not oppose these measures. Indeed, I do not know if we have the power to do so.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an overriding need to get empty units back into use. I do not have a problem with the Irish Water side of things. On change of use, the overriding imperative is to get over-the-shop units into use. There are many such units in Dún Laoghaire. In fact, there are dozens of them and they could be used to provide much-needed accommodation. I appreciate the fact that officials...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we not get some answers?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we have a little flexibility?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was incorporeal.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We agree.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to hear these words of wisdom.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to invite a delegation from the Parliament in Gaza to meet with an all party delegation in Dáil Éireann. [3495/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to arrange an all-party delegation to visit the Parliament in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3494/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (25 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has expressed his views publically or to the United States administration with regard to President Trump's recent derogatory remarks regarding African and Caribbean countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3496/18]