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

Richard Boyd Barrett: For what?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: For what? What is the point?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point of this charade if rules cast by a majority of Members cannot proceed through the Dáil?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The House is being disrupted by the fact that we are not allowed to put a motion-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: You might as well.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vótáil.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met. [45217/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The housing crisis has reached absolutely dire proportions and, to be frank, in my part of Dublin it is getting worse every day. There are many reasons for this but one is the failure to put in place the necessary infrastructure in order to develop public lands for social and affordable housing. Our representatives on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have discovered something that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if climate change is covered by Cabinet committees he attends. [45218/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not think he should apologise for trivialising the issue of the climate emergency by making those comments? It really gives succour to climate deniers like Donald Trump to make glib trivialising comments of that sort. It would be helpful if the Taoiseach said they were comments he regretted. I question the Taoiseach's more general bona fides on this given the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Time is running out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not of this time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he is considering new divisions in his Department. [43258/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise in advance for the fact that I will have to leave before I can hear the Taoiseach's answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. I just wanted to say that I am not being rude but must leave to take a call. I propose that the Taoiseach take the issue of disability under his Department's remit. Disability advocacy groups and service users have been calling for this for some time. The UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disability, UNCRPD, has been ratified, although the Government notably opted out...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes which will be delivered in 2020; when the income eligibility criteria for such homes will be defined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45220/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The income thresholds for affordable housing must be established clearly. Certainly, what the Minister has said to date indicates that there are huge numbers of people we cannot identify or say how they will access affordable housing. The Minister promised a review of the income thresholds for social housing. When will that review take place?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were told the Enniskerry site would commence two years ago but it still has not commenced.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Due to the fact that the Minister is linking affordability to market and cost issues, people on low incomes will not be able to afford these houses, in particular in areas like mine where market prices are very high. Given the income thresholds for social housing, thousands of people are having their hopes and dreams, to use the Minister's phrase of earlier, dashed because they are being...