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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the reason that the Adult Refugee Programme in Ringsend College and Ballsbridge College, Dublin, is being earmarked for closure while other courses and agencies, for example, ALCES, BTEI, DALC continue to be funded. [49940/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all the Garda stations in the State with full details of the ownership of the land and buildings. [49925/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are also being discouraged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Self-employment by definition can often, particularly in current circumstances, mean a person is in and out of work. Is the organisation experiencing difficulties in terms of self-employed people having to sign off when in work and sign off again when out of work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be very brief, partly because I must leave but also because I agree with everything the witnesses have said. There is not a great deal to add. On the tax issue, I probably read the report last year but we have discussed tax so much since then that perhaps Mr. Ginnell will remind me of his specific proposals to improve the tax situation. Does he think we should begin to question the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question about broadening the tax base.