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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the HAP limits in line with rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when he intends to bring forward the promised "first refusal" legislation with regard to the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what measures he is going to put in place to address those families and individuals in homeless services who are above the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54221/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Deputy Barry does not arrive I will; if he does, I will share time. How many thousand more Palestinians will be dead by the time the European Council meets next week? Some 16,000 have already died, 70% of whom were women and children. Children, including babies, accounted for 40%. How many more will be dead before the Taoiseach goes to the European Council next week? He told us...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of last year, NESC produced a report on improving industrial relations. I suggest that NESC was absolutely right to focus on this subject when we consider that Fórsa has demonstrations today outside hospitals because of the really outrageous fact that a recruitment embargo has been imposed across our health service. Fórsa points out that due to this recruitment pause,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- on a health service when we need more, not less, staff.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 1948.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53908/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department. [53907/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from that point, the Israeli massacre in Gaza continues. Hundreds of people are being killed every day. More than 20,000 have been killed, 70% of whom were women and children. The Taoiseach has indicated that there is nothing really that he can do about it except criticise it. I suggest that what he could do is read, if he has not done so, the reports produced before 7...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are one of the richest countries in the world. We are now heading into Christmas with over 13,000 people homeless and 4,000 of those are children. Many of them have been homeless for several years. It is a stain on our society and, frankly, on Government that in such a wealthy society that should be the case. I have a simple question. What hope can the Taoiseach offer those families...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53589/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much doubt it. We have had to have significant Supplementary Estimates for health for a good few years. The Minister could probably remind me of that number.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This year, it is just over €1 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a 4% increase on the initial allocation and the Minister said it was more or less the same last year.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we not fooling ourselves that the allocation we are making in the budget is simply inadequate? We must know that in advance.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister is kind of saying is that he is giving the minimum allocation that he can possibly give in order to put downward pressure on what the Minister will spend, knowing quite well that he is going to have to give a supplementary. That is what it sounds like to me. I take the point about the external exceptional circumstances in terms of the presence of a large number of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Minister about that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I get the point. Can I-----