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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to whether councils sent incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected across all local authorities; the amount potentially denied to applicants across all local authorities due to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason councils were issued incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected by all local authorities; the estimated number that could have been denied by local authorities nationally due to councils not applying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. They were extremely informative and helpful. I welcome the fact that they all in their different ways confirm what everybody knows, that the private market is not capable of delivering affordable housing for great numbers of people. Although the ESRI gave us a lot of useful information I do not know if it said how much of our housing needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in applying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was one question to which I did not get an answer. Is the delay in the delivery of an affordable housing scheme related to the cost affordability dilemma? Should we, therefore, focus on affordability to solve that problem? Will Mr. Brennan comment on the projected on Mullinastill Road? Why was it rejected?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It would be a gross dereliction of its responsibility for the House to fail to discuss the nurses' strike this week. In the pelting rain this morning every nurse to whom I spoke expressed repeatedly his or her disbelief and fury at the failure of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health to listen to the reasons nurses were striking and engage with them. I do not believe the House...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is why we need a debate. We need a full debate precisely because of what the nurses are saying that nobody is actually talking about the issues that have led them out on strike. If the Taoiseach wants to resolve it and the House wants to take its responsibility in trying to resolve it, it has to discuss the details of what is going on-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and end the spin and propaganda which the Taoiseach is using to evade his responsibility in the matter.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I contacted the Business Committee.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think that is enough. It is not serious enough in the face of what is going on. The nurses do not want to be out. If the Taoiseach is serious about ending the dispute, we need to thrash out the issues fully.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is not engaging.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I am not trying to be disagreeable, but this issue is too serious. There is a need for a full Dáil debate on the issue-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fine as long as it is taken into account that it could be fitted in today at some stage.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Subject to what the Business Committee says.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the priorities of his Department in 2019. [5669/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should hire a nurse as an adviser.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [4066/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach entered into Deputy Enda Kenny territory in Davos.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. We famously remember how the Army was going to be guarding the ATMs such was the severity of the economic crisis. The Taoiseach decided to emulate the rather bizarre comments of the former Taoiseach with the claims that we would have the Army deployed on the Border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. This is despite the fact that the Taoiseach comes into the House and repeats the same...

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I indicated in the discussion before the motion was referred to the committee, there is something Orwellian about the Government's claim that involving ourselves in an arrangement with NATO does not impact in any way on our neutrality. The phrase "Partnership for Peace-NATO" is Orwellian, too. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is a military alliance dominated by some of the most...