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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My apologies, Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take her time as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The playground in question is in an area where very few people have front or back gardens. These are old terraced council houses. It is an area with a DEIS school and is a pocket of disadvantage in Dún Laoghaire. Many of the children who go there, from the ages of three and four up to 13, are children who would frankly not go to the other open playgrounds. There are a number of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are playing games.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Their names are Pauline and Jill. They have worked there for more than a decade. In Pauline's case it is probably about 20 years. Many of the children who go there now will not go anymore if the supervision is removed. Some agenda is operating here. I believe somebody else wants the building that they partly use, to be honest. That is what is happening and it is wrong and retrograde....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pauline and Jill.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met. [50114/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department with the National Economic Social Council. [50361/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she plans to ensure the national childcare scheme will benefit parents in view of the fact there is no onus on childcare providers to take part in the scheme and the introduction of a ratio of carers to school-age children is set to increase the cost of running the facility, which will be passed on to the parents; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will extend the deadline and provide technical support to crèche owners in view of the short timeframe and the technical problems for the owners to submit required documentation to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51547/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the necessary funds are made available in order that the day-care and residential facilities at a care home (details supplied) can remain open into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51369/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers found in breach of regulation by Tusla as a result of the new regulations on standardised quality of care for school-age children and as a result have had to reduce their places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51093/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Data (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the participation of private childcare providers in the national childcare scheme; the breakdown of places available under the scheme for pre-ECCE, ECCE and school-age children across the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51094/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet with this Deputy and a person (details supplied) to discuss older workers and community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51320/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children that have spent time in homeless services over the past five years by age groups of zero to five, five to ten and ten to 16 years of age; the length of time each child has spent in homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51879/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether, in view of the severity of the current housing crisis, a more aggressive vacant site tax is needed to prevent hoarding and speculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46680/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the local property tax has failed to generate additional funding for local government and services since its introduction; his further views on whether an alternative method of funding local government is now needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46681/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for not being here earlier but I had questions in the Dáil Chamber. It is unthinkable that the public service broadcaster would not continue to exist and flourish because it always has played and always should play an absolutely key role in Irish society and cultural life and in its role in journalism. As I do not know how many of these questions Deputy Bríd Smith has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has read the recent report on the effect of homelessness on the development of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many unacceptable manifestations of the housing and homelessness emergency, which the Minister's policies have generated, but the most upsetting is the plight of children in emergency accommodation or who are homeless. A number of reports from the Royal College of Physicians and from housing NGOs have exposed the shocking extent to which children in homeless accommodation are being...