Results 25,901-25,920 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not.

Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am deeply frustrated that I cannot ask a supplementary.

Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I did not hear the beginning of the Taoiseach's answer, could he clarify if the National Economic and Social Council is the only State agency for which his Department is responsible? If that is the agency for which his Department is responsible, why was a question I put down to him some time ago asking him to comment on a report produced by the council passed to the Minister for Finance...

Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Council.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has any advisors or consultants on health within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27361/11]

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is specific to the issue of health. Today, 344 people are on hospital trolleys throughout the country. Communities from Roscommon to west Cork to Blanchardstown to Loughlinstown to Tipperary to Galway are outraged because the Government's health policy is in tatters. We have lost 1,000 nurses in the past two years and 6,000 health workers. The number of bed closures climbed to...

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans for regulating bodies and persons in view of the sizeable role that voluntary housing associations, private landlords and developers will be playing in the new social housing policy [30408/11]

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A shocking 96,000 people are on housing waiting lists, many for as long as ten years. Most of the people on the list believe that at the end of their unacceptable wait they will get a council home with proper standards and a housing authority that is accountable to the public in terms of the condition of that housing. They do not realise that the Minister ended those hopes in June with his...

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that the Minister seems intent on these reforms, what assurance can he offer that we will not end up with a repeat of the 19th century style of slum landlord? If there is no regulation, we will return to the tenements of the 19th century. I have heard appalling stories about the conditions that people face when renting from private landlords, although I do not want to tar all of them...

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I followed the debate.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not understand why we do not build 6,000 houses for the €600 million we are paying out between RAS and the rent allowance. We would recoup the rental revenue on these properties.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have social houses. There are 90,000 people on the housing lists.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even though there are 90,000 people on housing lists, the Minister does not want to build social housing.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Instead we will possibly lease property from bankers, private landlords and these private bodies. In some cases we are paying for the housing that will be managed by the voluntary housing bodies but we will not receive rent. It does not make sense.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are paying out €600 million per year-----

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----over ten years, we could build all the social housing we need.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would have the asset and the rental revenue instead of outsourcing to organisations over which we have no control.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In England they are big business.

Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not.