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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In recent months, representatives of workers and trade unions have stated they believe it is time to change wage policy to see wage increases for workers to alleviate the deprivation many working people suffer as a result of six years of cuts, to give an urgently needed boost to demand in the economy and to stimulate growth and employment. Will the Minister consider responding positively to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Timestoday ran a headline which asked whether it was time to take a punt on Irish property again. Does this not concern the Minister or for that matter the Taoiseach in going to New York and talking about how property investors should come to Dublin because they could make a killing in the Dublin property market? To start to treat and incentivise speculation in property after the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is not building any.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the banks that are building them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which the Minister would not give to the councils.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The plan now involves building only 2,000 houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister shows an unwillingness to acknowledge the seriousness of the issue. It is not just about absolute levels of property prices or rents; it is about the dramatic increase in property prices over the past few months. Property prices in Dublin have risen by 23% in the past 12 months, by 12.9% in the past three months and since 2012, when the market bottomed out, prices have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the deepening housing shortage, rapidly rising rents and property prices and the National Assets Management Agencies plans for large-scale sell-offs of its property portfolio to multinational asset managers and property investors represent a macroeconomic danger and may have serious implications for the public finances; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For some time, I have been trying to ring the alarm bells about the dangerous and flawed approach of the Minister and the Government to the housing and property sector. In dealing with other Ministers, I pointed out that it is leading to an emergency in the area of homelessness and the social crisis, but I also believe that it represents a serious threat to the macroeconomic health of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions that have taken place regarding potential income tax reductions and or changes to the USC in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16154/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest developments in the Government's efforts to achieve retrospective recapitalisation of the Irish banks and to reduce Ireland's debt burden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16151/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 370. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a report on the rental accommodation scheme programme to include the following information, the number of RAS tenancies per local authority, the rent being pain in each with details of family size, the number of RAS tenants that have notices to quit and the number of these that are overstaying the date...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 656. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford who is suffering from aggressive motor neurone disease is being denied the home ventilation they desperately need to keep them alive due to the cost of this option; the cost of such an option; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16560/14]

Current Crisis in Ukraine: Motion (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to be equally divided.

Current Crisis in Ukraine: Motion (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have agreed the order-----

Current Crisis in Ukraine: Motion (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an equal division of time between myself and Deputies Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Joe Higgins and John Halligan.

Current Crisis in Ukraine: Motion (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are opposing the Government's motion because it is adding dangerous fuel to a very dangerous fire that is engulfing Ukraine. We have put forward an alternative motion which is absolutely clear in saying that we oppose the Russian military incursion into Ukraine and that we do not accept the legitimacy of a referendum which took place at gunpoint. We agree with the Government on that but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Coillte use sampling for assessment purposes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that a diplomatic way of saying that if we can get the awareness and the knowledge out there, we can shift Government policy? Mr. Murphy made the point earlier that he is led to a considerable extent by Government policy. In other words, does the change in culture and attributes and a particular emphasis on forestry have to come from us and the Government for things to change with Coillte?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last question was on Coillte's contribution to afforestation.