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Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. I thank Deputy Eamon Ryan for bringing forward the motion. Any motion that seeks to address one important aspect of this crisis, namely, people who are not eligible for council housing and are looking for rental accommodation, which cannot be and is not being delivered by the private market, is welcome. I certainly think we should look at the...

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Pringle and Connolly for tabling this motion. I also commend the groups from Bantry, Conamara and elsewhere who have been campaigning for some considerable time on this issue. Their efforts have helped bring this debate into the Dáil and forced the entire political system to take the matter seriously and to address their concerns. The motion put forward by Deputies...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad the Tánaiste mentioned housing, particularly social housing. As I have said a number of times in recent weeks, a major national demonstration will take place on 7 April to demand precisely that the Government breaks from its current reliance on the private sector, private developers and landlords to deal with the housing emergency and that the State, through the local...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know whether the Tánaiste is missing the point or just trying to throw mud in people's eyes. According to the article in The Sunday Business Post, the development in question will cost €400 million. I have just outlined how, at an absolute minimum based on current average rents, at the end of this, the State will have paid for the development and a hell of a lot more on...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will be done at €400,000 or €500,000 a unit.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Madness.

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Solidarity-People Before Profit is a pro-choice party and therefore we are for removing the eighth amendment from the Constitution and support this legislation to allow the people make a decision on whether they wish to remove the eighth amendment. Whatever about our views on this issue, it is important, certainly from my experience already canvassing, to remind people of the question they...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a service in which persons can change their motor registration plate to their county of residence for a fee both as a possible stream of revenue and to facilitate motorists who purchased cars with plates from counties other than their own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12230/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date the report on the costings of pay equality for teachers will be received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process in place for a person that is of the view that An Garda Síochána has failed to investigate a potentially serious alleged crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12237/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if the Medical Council excluded doctors trained in Nigeria from availing of further training here; if so, the reason therefor; when the Medical Practitioners Act 2017 will be amended to allow Nigerian doctors to further their training here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12594/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 658. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reimburse medication under the long-term illness scheme for medical CBD and THC for persons granted licences for the medication to treat epilepsy; and the scheme under which this medication will be covered in view of the fact that other anti-epilepsy medication is covered under the long-term illness scheme [12839/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1062. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes built by each local authority; the number built for use as public housing by other bodies and various bodies; the number of private homes built; the percentage of private homes built that were subsequently used as public housing via Part V or other mechanisms in each of the years since 1970, in tabular...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the education section of the programme for Government the Government promised to establish "a new relationship with students" and also promised to improve accessibility to third level education. I wonder what the Taoiseach thinks in that context of the row that took place last week between students in Trinity College, who were forced to occupy college buildings over attempts to introduce...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think the Taoiseach should respect the will of this House in this regard and he should answer the question on the position if the motion is passed. In passing, and I genuinely do not mean to be glib in this, if the Taoiseach is somewhat credibly saying that people should not make stuff up - I do not think the queries about the strategic communications unit are that, as they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but the Taoiseach cannot, on the one hand, say people should not make stuff up and then go to Washington and make stuff up, and then subsequently deny it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with the suggestion of People Before Profit representatives in the North that, in the light of the political paralysis, we need a new civil rights movement to break the logjam and from the failed paradigm of green and orange politics? Since the civil rights movement that it tried to quell in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that paradigm has paralysed Northern...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I primarily wish to raise the matter of the very worrying things happening in Israel, both in terms of its treatment of Palestinians and its wider stance in the region, in particular in terms of Iran, which I believe should be discussed at the European Council but was not addressed by the Taoiseach in his speech. On taxation, without getting...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason a person (details supplied) was refused entry into the Defence Forces despite having passed their psychometric testing, interview and medical examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12832/18]