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Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me remind the Minister that at the time the property tax was brought in, the Minister justified it by saying there would be more money available for local services. Actually there has not been a cent more. The 25% cut in local government funding that preceded it was never replaced. We then had a property tax that reduced central Government funding on a euro-for-euro basis. We got no...

Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a good idea.

Other Questions: Property Tax (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are making a fortune.

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit has always opposed public private partnerships as a means to build schools, housing or other vital infrastructure. What has happened with Carillion and has now affected Coláiste Ráithín, St. Philomena's, the Eureka secondary school, Tyndall college and the Carlow Institute for Further Education confirms what we predicted when the Government and the main...

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a fundamental problem with the Minister's response. His statement that the private partner is taking the risk is clearly not correct. The risk is being taken by the students, teachers, schools and communities who cannot access the buildings they badly need and the building workers who do not know whether they will be paid. This case illustrates the fundamental folly of public...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak to amendment No. 80 as it is grouped with amendment No. 74. My amendment gets to the heart of what the Mahon tribunal was all about. It was about corrupt payments to politicians for land rezonings and planning. It was a key issue that angered and scandalised people. Senior figures in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were accused of taking payments of one sort or another to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not accept that SIPO's regulations around political donations and funding are sufficient, as good as the work of SIPO might be. This is specifically about planning corruption. This was at the heart of some of the worst corrupt practices in the political system - how it corrupted planning and rezoning decisions to make fortunes for people, where local communities suffered the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the Minister of State's response but I will press the amendment.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 80:In page 48, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(2) Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new subsection after subsection (1A), inserted by the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010:“(1B) Prior to the planning authority giving its decision in respect of a planning application, the applicant shall...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time do I have?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling its motion on the critical issue of affordable housing. We support the overall direction and thrust of its motion, but we have some additional points to make on what needs to be done with public land in terms of affordable housing. We also have what I would say are slightly more ambitious proposals about what needs to be done with regard to private...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Issues (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria he plans to establish regarding affordability in HBFI funded developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52267/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of overtopping the Office of Public Works has carried out along the coastline; the amount of overtopping that has been carried out on the east coast; his plans for overtopping in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area; his further plans for Bullock harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3965/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the way in which a person is dealt with by her Department in circumstances in which a service user engaged in a JobBridge scheme leaves the scheme early due to non-compliance with employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4352/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person selected for a JobBridge scheme has the same rights under employment law as other employees; if that person is entitled to a P45 if their employment is not continued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4381/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a company engaged in employing a person through the JobBridge scheme is vetted to ensure it complies with employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4382/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Customer Charters (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure in her Department for investigating complaints by service users; the timeframe within which it must respond to a person that makes a complaint; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4353/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revert to the original proposal with regard to LIHAF funded developments as set out in circular PL 10/2016 of 26 August 2016, which required an affordability dimension for each site such that a minimum of 40% of homes were to be affordable; his further plans to ensure that affordable is defined so that they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the Minister introduced the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, which is a subsidy to private developers to open certain sites, the initial circular indicated that we would get 40% of any LIHAF supported development in affordable housing and that affordable would mean, in Dublin, a price of no more than €300,000. Within a month of that announcement the Minister,...