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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector Funding (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 317. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the options he is considering for 12 volunteer centres that are funded below €121,016 which is the recommended amount identified by the report Developing Funding Criteria for Volunteer Centres in Ireland; and the timeline for considering and delivering on those options. [15696/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Into selling off oversupply by NAMA.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many aspects to the housing crisis and the failure of this Government to deal with it. The programme for Government puts a particular emphasis on affordable housing. The Rebuilding Ireland affordable home loan scheme, which commenced last February, is a mess. More evidence of the mess around it was provided by Brian O'Connell on the "Today with Seán O'Rourke" radio...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Something fishy is going on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People who need it are being refused.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Mr. Donald Tusk. [13970/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with President Macron. [16403/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is clear since Theresa May abandoned her futile attempt to engage with headbangers like Boris Johnson, the European Research Group, ERG, Rees-Mogg and the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, that there is now a little bit of hope that reason might prevail and we might avoid the crash-out because she is talking to a man much maligned in this House, Jeremy Corbyn, a socialist and left-winger,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Chancellor Merkel. [16402/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most people were relieved that Chancellor Merkel made references to the Berlin wall and the problem that the division of Germany and walls and borders made. She showed empathy with the cause of preventing a hard border on this island. On foot of the earlier question, there have been discussions about intensifying the detailed discussions on that outcome which we hope will not happen, can...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland on 1 March 2019. [15043/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe any clarity is required on the DUP's position, and I disagree with the leader of Fianna Fáil. The raison d'êtreof the DUP is to maintain political sectarianism, even if it has self-defeating consequences and leads to a hard border or something else. We could more usefully talk about the social and economic transformation of this island in a progressive direction...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made most of the points I want to make about Brexit in the earlier engagement, but I will summarise briefly. It is very welcome and long overdue that Prime Minister Theresa May has moved away from trying to engage or have reason to prevail with the headbangers on the Tory right like Mr. Boris Johnson, MP; Mr. Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP, and the European Research Group, ERG. They are driven by...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to the United States of America and the meetings he attended. [13969/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the issues he raised with President Trump during his recent visit to the White House. [12373/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E (Health) last met. [12374/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full report on the involvement of the Land Development Agency in the development of public housing on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16406/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the strategic housing development legislation is contributing to the provision of affordable housing in particular in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16408/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which affordable homes would be delivered nationally further to his recent circular on affordable housing criteria to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16405/19]