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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is being refused rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22480/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just find the Minister's rationale for going ahead with this process very difficult to follow. If I hear him rightly, he is sort of acknowledging that the privatisation of Eircom has landed us in this situation and that the fact that much of the broadband network is already privatised means that even though we are not in a good situation, we must now continue with the privatisation process...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not really answered the question. Is it not highly possible this consortium could unravel, and therefore do we not carry all the risk anyway? The Minister keeps saying we are capping the risk. How are we doing so? If this consortium goes belly up, the risk will not be capped and we will end up holding the baby, so to speak. Regardless of the structure put in place, how...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be honest, that does not convince me and it is an accident waiting to happen. That is what the Secretary General of the Department seems to be saying. I have a straight question about one of the potential risks, whether the Minister has looked at it, and if it bothers him. The company formerly known as Siteserv has a legal case pending against it, and we do not know the implications of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. The Minister has the question.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the US Congressional delegation that visited Ireland recently. [21771/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss the issue of climate change, particularly in the context of the forthcoming visit of Donald Trump to this country and the extreme damage Mr. Trump is doing to efforts to address the climate emergency by encouraging denial of the scientific facts, including the reality of climate destruction, and the sabotage of the movement to address climate change? Did he have any...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversations with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May, about Northern Ireland. [21772/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Theresa May has played the political price for pandering to extreme forms of right-wing nationalism in her own party and beyond, with the fairly obnoxious politics of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage. Frankly, it is rather depressing that Farage in particular has done well in these elections. Ultimately, this is the failure of the political centre and Theresa May. It is the consequence of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The idea the noxious far right is only a problem across the water in Britain is self-evidently not the case. The noxious, dangerous far right is on the rise in Europe and Europe has to take a good look at itself, and the European People's Party has to take a good look at itself, and ask to what extent are their political failures responsible for creating a ground for these forces to rise and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are the one in the same party as him. We have nothing to do with the far right.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have nothing to do with the nationalist far right criticism of Europe.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not pro-Brexit. It is an internationalist party.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Cullinane for his remarks on the Taoiseach's comments, which were dangerous and dishonest. On climate, is the Taoiseach, in talking the talk on climate change with his European counterparts while at the same time sabotaging efforts to do what is the central demand of the climate movement, namely, to keep fossil fuels in the ground, not guilty of gross climate hypocrisy?...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is nonsense.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is nonsense; it is outrageous.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks very much.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Orbán anti-Semitic?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when further funds will be released to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to facilitate the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22925/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (29 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief. I will give credit where credit is due. These are very good regulations that will make a difference. What the Minister has done is quite radical so I say "fair play" to him and his officials. The one question I have concerns proof that somebody is actually living in the principal private residence. This concerns the potential for abuse. The Minister mentioned bills as...