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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bus Services (2 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: 524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a company (details supplied) has been able to recruit its full complement of drivers to date; if the Dublin routes it has been awarded are being run to schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39512/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister think the housing crisis has peaked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister to tell me more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: When does the Minister think the housing crisis will peak?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: May I ask the Minister-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: Go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: If the housing crisis has not reached its peak, when does the Minister think it will do so? Will it be a matter of weeks, months or years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minster for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, stated in the Dáil recently that it will take five years to get to grips with the housing crisis. Does the Minister agree with that estimate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: Perhaps the Minister should check the Official Report for what the Minister for Education and Skills actually said. I ask him to imagine a 25 yer old woman sitting across the room from him as opposed to a group of members. Fine Gael entered office when she was 18 and has been in power for seven years. In spite of the woman having educational qualifications and ambitions for what she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: What would the Minister say to such a woman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: I suspect that the Minister's reply would not cut it with the young woman I asked him to imagine. He addressed the issue of protest. I think such a woman would seriously consider going down that road after seven years of Fine Gael having been in power. I will move on. The Minister mentioned that the new figures indicate that 9,527 people were officially homeless in August. How many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: What was the number of recategorisations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: I am just looking for a number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister has been explaining it for two minutes now. I am just looking for a number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: I am just looking for a number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: It was 9,527. However, I am asking how many have been recategorised since the process began?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: The spend on HAP last year was €149 million and this year it is €301 million. It has more than doubled. The people who will join the Raise the Roof protest outside of the gates of Leinster House at 12.30 p.m. next Wednesday have a simple and extremely modest demand that the capital spend of €2.3 billion be doubled. Why is the Government doubling the spend on HAP, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: Even if the Government wished to double the spending on HAP, why would it not double the spending on construction?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: I realise that the Minister is not the Taoiseach-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: -----but I note the fact that she did not distance herself one iota from the dog whistle politics that the Taoiseach demonstrated on the floor yesterday. I note her points on affordable homes but everyone should note the comments of the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government earlier when he repeated his claim that €320,000 falls within the remit of affordable housing as...