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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister, Ms Hurley and the team for their attendance. I would like to make many points but, given the time available, I will condense them into one central point. The net effect of the failure of policies to deal with social and affordable housing and spiralling rents and property prices is social cleansing, particularly in Dublin. The Government's policies, which are reliant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing has been built.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I see the first brick laid, I will be impressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In response to my point on areas in Dublin with high rents and high property prices, the Minister acknowledged there are specific problems but he did not respond to the specifics when I cited examples showing why many of his policies cannot work. Does he acknowledge, for example, that the Rebuilding Ireland home loan cannot work on any scale in Dún Laoghaire when house costs are in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At 2 p.m. on Saturday protesters will gather in Dublin city centre in the latest of a series of demonstrations organised by the National Housing and Homelessness Coalition to protest at the Government's failure to address the housing emergency. The protesters will gather at three different locations in the city centre and then converge on a building, which we will not disclose at the moment...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is very simple. Is that not the real explanation for our housing crisis? While the Government has talked about providing affordable and public housing, it has not done it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has actually facilitated obscene profiteering by vulture funds and developers - the very people who nearly brought the economy to its knees.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The boys are back in town and the Government brought them back to town. Ordinary people looking for an affordable roof over their heads are paying the price.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume the Tánaiste would not accuse the authorities in Berlin, for example, of being ideological. It is holding a referendum essentially to root out vulture funds and property speculators from Berlin because they are contributing to the housing crisis. That sentiment is expressed across the board in Berlin. There is nothing comforting in what the Tánaiste has said. He has not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----through the housing assistance payment, HAP, leasing arrangements and transfers of property assets to these people who are profiteering.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the fact. Glenveagh Properties plc seems to think it is. Where is the affordable scheme? The Government promised it in 2016, and now the Tánaiste is saying it is going to be another two or three years-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----so there is no hope for a whole generation of young working people whose incomes could not possibly allow them to afford these property prices. Cairn plc properties have an average selling price of €428,000 this year. Has the Government not failed? Why does he not admit it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes the Devil can tell the truth.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 375. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the dynamic deployment method AMPDS system that is being used by the NAS control centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are between 50 km and 100 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are between 100 km and 150 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11900/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are over 150 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11901/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the categories of calls in respect of the number of ambulances that have been deployed to between 100 km and 150 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11902/19]