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- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is the students' fault.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While the merry-go-round of futile EU summits that continue to yield nothing and the hot air about recovery and reform spews out of this building-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----ordinary, innocent people are being crushed by the austerity the Government and the troika are imposing. The latest victims of this austerity are young people and students who are being driven into poverty and despair. Thousands of students who desperately need grants to survive in third level education remain without them.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are unable to pay the registration fees which the Government is ratcheting up every year, access hardship funds or pay rent. Many of them are now being forced to make a choice between paying their rent and paying for food.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week I attended a meeting with USI, at which we were told about a student whose breakfasts, lunches and dinners for the week were one packet of pasta and a bottle of tomato ketchup. That is outrageous. If the students manage to survive through college, they will be faced with unemployment and emigration when they finish. Will the Taoiseach admit this crisis for the young people and...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened but there was nothing in it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think the students who are taking to the streets to protest in Cork or are mobilising in colleges across the country are making it up? They are in a desperate situation because of the inadequacy of grants, student poverty and now the crisis in the processing of their inadequate grants. Does the Taoiseach acknowledge on any level this is connected to the so-called reform...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a choice. That is the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Here is a man with a heart condition who will be homeless as a result of the Minister's policies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should go on daft.ie and find somewhere for €425 in south Dublin.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will respond to evidence that new rent allowance limits are resulting in tenants becoming homeless and or living in overcrowded situations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49916/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The evidence is piling up to the effect that the cutting of rent allowance caps by the Minister is leading directly to homelessness. On three occasions before the summer I was contacted by dozens of families who were threatened with homelessness or had been made homeless as a result of the rent allowance cuts. Since then Focus Ireland, Threshold and other Deputies have raised the issue, but...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was referring to a single person. The figure is €475.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If that is the Minister's concern she should introduce rent controls rather than make people homeless.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying the Minister should introduce rent controls.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should introduce rent controls. She should get out of the bubble.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she does not introduce rent controls and legal penalties on landlords who dicriminate against tenants in receipt of rent allowance in view of (details supplied); if she will achieve her stated aim of reducing rents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49918/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Permanent TSB are not offering the mortgage arrears solutions set out in the Government's Personal Insolvency initiative, that is, mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49463/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the Adult Refugee Programme's annual budget spent on language teachers' salaries for the direct delivery of the service. [49938/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the Adult Refugee Programme's annual budget spent on administration costs by the lead vocational education committee, County Dublin [49939/12]