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Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 595: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the annual amounts paid out to private landlords and local authorities in the form of RAS and RAS type arrangements; the number of such payments or arrangements; and the average amount of these payments on an annual and monthly basis. [24245/11]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 596: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the average cost of building a new social home, based on the most recent builds by local authorities in the post property slump period, and taking into account the fall in building costs in recent times. [24246/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 597: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of rental revenue derived for the State, via local authorities, from local authority housing over the past five years and breaking these figures down on an annual basis and by local authority area. [24247/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 598: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the number of local authority houses in the State and the average annual or monthly rent received per local authority house, and breaking these figures down by local authority area. [24248/11]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 599: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the possible fines Ireland will face in view of the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency predicts that Ireland will breach EU 2020 targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15888/11]

Sale of State Assets (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will pass over the irony of Fianna Fáil railing against privatisation.

Sale of State Assets (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a State company, the ESB played a key role in transforming Ireland from a Third World country to a modern state. In any rational approach in dealing with the current economic crisis, is it not the case that a successful and profitable company such as the ESB should be kept in public ownership and investment be made in it to develop sustainable energy resources and so forth? This would...

Offshore Exploration (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the quantity of gas produced from the three fields of Kinsale, Ballycotton and Seven Heads, in County Cork; the current commercial value of the gas being produced from these fields; the amount the companies have paid in taxation and the royalties that the Exchequer has received since the commencement of...

Offshore Exploration (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister knows the point of my question, which is the extent to which the people of this country will benefit from gas and oil production under the terms that currently operate. It is not very clear to me what €190 million represents as a proportion because the Minister has not really answered that question. If I am correct in understanding what the Minister said, €190...

Offshore Exploration (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows the point of my question.

Offshore Exploration (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even at €80 million a pop, would it not be better for us to borrow the money to invest in a State company to do some drilling rather than borrowing €100 billion to bail out banks? Could we not have borrowed a fraction of that sum to drill because there are estimates of the equivalent of tens of billions of barrels of gas and oil offshore? Would this not have been a better investment...

Offshore Exploration (14 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not functioning.

Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann: Motion (21 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what we said.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody deserves a break. Whatever differences I have with the Members on the other side of the House, I recognise it has been a fairly intense few months in here and all of us have a difficult situation to deal with. I do not doubt that Members have been working hard in their own way by their own lights in order to attempt to deal with the situation. Also, it is important to dispel the...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to make a point. That is a very serious question. That means assets of the State would be used as collateral against changes in interest rates. That is a serious business and we need to know if that is the case.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another reason is the issue of the JLCs and the uncertainty that faces those low-paid workers. Another reason is the Dáil owes it to a vulnerable section of society to clarify whether it will have the educational supports it needs come September. Heading into the summer, parents of children with special needs who have been refused applications for special needs assistants need to know...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman told us yesterday he was going to be there.

Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann: Motion (21 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the efforts to reform the Dáil. Although I was not here before to know what it was like, we felt some frustration at the procedures and protocols when it came to making the Dáil a place that can really be responsive to the issues that confront the country and which are brought to us by the public. I welcome the fact that the suggestions to bring in a stricter dress code were...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider the cuts to fuel, electricity and phone allowances for the unemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21408/11]

Common Fisheries Policy Reform: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not an expert on fishing by any means. However, I know the fishing industry is facing a massive crisis and it has been brought to my attention whenever I go to the west and by those fishermen in Dún Laoghaire who are left. It is a coastal town which used to have a thriving fishing industry. All the fishermen say that EU fisheries policies have been a disaster for Ireland and this is...