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Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The misery, suffering, hardship and cruelty that are being imposed on thousands of children, the 144,000 people on housing waiting lists and the 10,000 people who are homeless are simply intolerable and the position is getting worse and worse. The more we talk, the worse it gets. It is the bitter fruit of the disastrous decision the Minister's party took in 2011 - alongside the Labour Party...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to communications received by the Ombudsman for Children from HSE management in 2011 regarding the resources available and the referral pathway in counties Laois and Offaly CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28386/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the over-reliance on medication in the absence of sufficient primary care resources across mental health services (details supplied) is in part the reason for the resignation of three consultant psychiatrists in the south east; his plans to carry out an audit of the number of children that are being prescribed psychostimulant drugs; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health when sections 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be commenced to allow registration of the non-biological parent's name on the child's birth certificate; the support that will be available to couples to register the non-biological parent on the child's birth certificate in the case of donor assisted births; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Harbours and Piers Funding (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to carry out the repairs necessary to Dún Laoghaire harbour to bring it up to taking in charge standard as outlined by the recent due diligence and risk management reports received by the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not need a rainy day fund. We need a sunny day fund because the current heatwave and the warnings from Irish Water about water shortages have yet again exposed the completely decrepit state of Ireland's water infrastructure and the disastrous consequences of decades of underinvestment by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil-led Governments. In particular, the current crisis has been...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Try disputing the facts then.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is doing a really good job.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every day households in this country use 300 million l of water. Does the Tánaiste know how much leaks out of the system every day? It is 700 million l of water.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to hand the Irish Water business plan. This is the plan of the Tánaiste's crowd and what it shows is a drop in investment from 2010 onwards, first instigated by Fianna Fáil and the Greens, then by Fine Gael and Labour.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Water business plan refers on several occasions to the decades of under-investment. That was done by Fine Gael-led and Fianna Fáil-led Governments. Have things improved slightly since the Government abandoned the wild goose chase of water charges? Yes, because €250 million a year that was being put into water meters that do not fix leaks has now been redirected to...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish Water testified in this House in April that it needs €18 billion of investment to fix our water infrastructure.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste said the leakage will be down to 38% by 2020. That is pathetic.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That does not deal with the problem. We need to significantly increase investment in water infrastructure, which the Government has failed to do.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Labour Party did not do it.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no evidence of that, so why does the Tánaiste keep saying it?

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have two and a half minutes each. While we are happy to participate in this special committee, I have to say that we need more than special committees if we are to do something about Ireland's disastrous failure to address the issue of climate change and play its part in contributing to the reduction in CO2 emissions. We have many targets and aspirations that are simply not being...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to remove pay inequality for new entrants in the public sector in view of the current economic position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Between 2011 and 2017 applications for second level teaching have dropped by 62%. By any measure this is a dramatic reduction in the number of people who apply to go into second level teaching. The Minister can quote figures about increased recruitment, which is not hard given what happened during the austerity period and the slashing of public sector numbers, but the fact remains that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been some unwinding of FEMPI but at the end of the current pay agreement public sector workers will still be earning less than they were earning in 2008. This is pretty extraordinary. In 2018 public servants will earn less than in 2008. Government spokespeople claim that it has closed 75% of the new entrant pay gap. This is not true. For the first 13 years the gap is more like...