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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why the nurses are going on strike.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question was about the strike.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned patients.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESRI recommended paying the nurses but that was ignored.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the vacant homes action plan with details across the country of the repair and lease scheme, compulsory purchase of vacant homes and the vacant site levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1386/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Portfolio (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met or is considering meeting NAMA to discuss the part it can play in the delivery of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1387/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance if emails, memos or minutes of meetings between his Department and public or private banks in regard to cases of mortgage arrears or potential repossessions on the book of those banks will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54527/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Registration (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 970. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a petition organised by an organisation (details supplied); her plans to deal with the concerns of those affected by the illegal adoptions that took place here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54092/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 996. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has employed an independent medical person to review medical files from mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1522/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the repair and leasing scheme by county; the take-up of this scheme by landlords; the amount paid out; the number of units brought back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1393/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties compulsorily purchased or in which the CPO process has been initiated by the local authorities to provide social housing by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce affordable housing schemes in 2019; when and the locations in which they will be available; the persons who will qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1625/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the major difficulties in the theatre, film and arts sectors in terms of insecure employment income and career possibilities in view of the controversy in a theatre (details supplied) and a recently launched campaign by actors and performers with regard to precarious work and ongoing disputes...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I talked to people who signed the letter as well as to people who were asked to sign it and made the decision not to sign it. As we can see, there is quite a polarised debate on both sides of this question. To some extent, it is up to the theatre and arts community to sort this out themselves. There has to be a balance between making the national theatre a space for all the people, all the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of these issues are complex and nuanced, but one issue that is beyond question is that people involved in co-productions from other theatre companies who work on the Abbey Theatre stage should be paid Abbey Theatre rates. There is a two-tier pay structure. The other point, which the theatre forum people made, is that the smaller theatre companies have been effectively dismantled over...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Theatre workers in Germany, artists, performers and dancers, have permanent jobs. They get six weeks holidays, sick pay and pension contributions. They have real jobs. Workers in the arts in this country have no rights or security.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the debate on the Solidarity-People Before Profit Anti-Evictions Bill 2018 just before Christmas, which the Government unfortunately opposed but which fortunately was passed by a majority in the Dáil, to address part of the reason for the current homelessness crisis, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, promised that there would be legislation...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [1550/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I made the main points I wanted to make about the arts sector during Question Time with the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht this morning, I would like to put it to the Taoiseach that we need to urge the Abbey Theatre to engage with those who signed the letter we discussed this morning. It is quite a polarised and complicated debate. All of the different stakeholders...