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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3493/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the issue of human rights on his official visit to China and Hong Kong for St Patrick's Day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3497/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the minimum criteria for recruitment into the Army; the reason a person (details supplied) did not meet the minimum criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3741/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 20 September 2017, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3739/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Department for getting on to me because I raised questions about the planning changes and the statutory instrument. I appreciate the call I got from the Department to go through it with me but I still requested that the Business Committee schedule a debate because the issues are important. I appreciate it agreed to that debate which will take place today. I will leave that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the committee get this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I have not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask one question. I accept some of what the Minister is saying, although the very precarious situation in Dún Laoghaire, because of the rents, is going to be true as well on a whole range of other fronts because everything is just so much higher. Is it not misleading to take people off the list when they are in HAP? I accept some HAP tenancies work. The Minister might argue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----way the Minister describes it, it is not a permanent housing solution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If they can afford and arrange it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the Irish troops in Lebanon. [1833/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, it was positive to visit our troops. There is no doubt about their bravery and the importance of the work they do, but we really have to up the ante in our political criticism and questioning of what Israel is doing. As mentioned, there are many child prisoners, including Ahed Tamimi, while illegal settlement continues. Also to be considered is the strangulation of Gaza and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [1832/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of the many pressing infrastructure needs the country has, the most pressing is being able to put an affordable roof over the heads of our citizens. This is vital from a social and economic point of view. Given that in the budget the Taoiseach committed, between the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, and Home Building Finance Ireland, approximately €1 billion in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We also get all our money back with social housing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Hungary and his meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. [1680/18]

Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the impact of the local property tax on the funding of local authorities in the course of the review of the local property tax; when the report on this review will be brought to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4286/18]

Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To paraphrase Marx, a spectre is haunting Fine Gael - the spectre of the unfair property tax.

Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Karl. The spectre I refer to is the unfair property tax and the dramatic hikes because of property prices increasing by 71%. 5 o’clock The Minister has acknowledged the folly of this unfair property tax by deferring the initial revaluation and is now talking about a cross-departmental review. Does he not think it is time to acknowledge that there is no way of tweaking the...

Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In our area, people are already being crucified in many cases but they will be absolutely nailed to the wall if anything even approaching the increase in property values is translated into an increase in property tax. The point about this tax is that it does not take into account ability to pay. Even with the existing tax, there are 46,000 people who have been forced to defer because their...