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- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am telling the Minister that it is the case
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State doubting that it could happen?
- Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to address the difficulty of housing applicants in finding private rented accommodation within the HAP or homeless HAP limits in many parts of Dublin and the refusal of local authorities to provide increases in these limits in line with actual rents in these areas; and if he will make a statement...
- Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not working in my area. Rents are so far ahead of the limits that if one is told to get HAP, one might as well pack one's bags for the hub, albeit there is a queue for that as well. The Minister must answer the question for the people who come to me who have rung 50 places, which is no exaggeration. I tell people now to take note of the number of places they have called. They may...
- Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are being refused.
- Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is my time reduced because I am giving two minutes-----
- Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought I had seven.
- Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Drip, drip, drip go the revelations adding to the scandal around the cervical smear issue, which gives us a glimpse into the dysfunction in the HSE that needs to be radically addressed. This motion deals with all aspects of this problem and proposes Sláintecare and moving towards a single-tier universal health service as the answer. I agree with that and support the motion but I really...
- Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is now because people are screaming for him to turn up but we were informed earlier today that he was not going to turn up. As a result of a question I asked today in the exchange with the State Claims Agency we finally revealed something that we could not drag out of the Minister, the Taoiseach or the HSE for the past week. I asked if there was a difference between the accuracy and the...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the latest homeless figures; the reason he is of the view these figures have been overstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19866/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make legislative changes to ensure that persons in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP, are kept on the regular social housing list rather than on a transfer list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19867/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Breen and Ms Foley for being here today. Do all of the cases of women who had false negative results and who subsequently developed cancer - the nine cases pending and the one which the agency understands has yet to be filed - involve CPL?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The American laboratory. The people who demanded a gagging order for Vicky Phelan-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are both of those laboratories American?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All the cases of misreading that have resulted in women learning that abnormalities should have been discovered and who subsequently developed cancer, of which the State Claims Agency has knowledge, involve American laboratories. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There were no other cases settled by the agency other than those nine and Vicky Phelan's case. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a very damning fact which should have come out before now and it says it all. There are no cases involving the Coombe Hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Coombe hospital. We have been informed by the Government-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there another group?