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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel does not recognise Palestinian elections.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians in Jerusalem do not get to vote at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is involved in a brazenly naked illegal occupation of Palestinian land and territory. This week, its cabinet authorised further illegal settlements on land that, under international law, is designated for the Palestinians. In the first month of this year, 50 Palestinians died in what was the deadliest month we have seen in decades, with the Israeli army running constant military...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [5891/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----introducing rent controls and, crucially, stopping evictions into homelessness.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they going to food banks if they are all doing so well?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the people going to food banks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In one of the richest countries in the world we now have tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of people dependent on food banks for food. Hundreds of thousands of people are now in arrears with their energy and utility bills. Some 12,000 people are officially homeless in emergency accommodation, but actually the numbers are multiples of that. I believe the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if birth information requested from Tusla since October 2022 will be released and acknowledgments made to applicants for the distress caused by the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6518/23]

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many damning facts and statistics show the shameful failure of this Government to address the diabolical housing and homelessness crisis in this country. I will use some of my time to tell the Ministers of State about the human reality of their failures and the misery it is inflicting on people. Watching this debate at the moment is a woman called Jackie. Jackie and her husband are in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will elaborate on a further example. I mentioned the man with early-onset Alzheimer's, who is also in a housing assistance payment, HAP, arrangement where he had to pay a top-up. Before getting Alzheimer's, he was working and could make the top-up. Since he got Alzheimer's, he cannot work or make the top-up and is falling into arrears. No appointment was possible. With our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will certainly do that. The other case I mentioned is also complex. I will not go over the details again but, just to be clear, it concerns a woman with cancer whose husband cannot turn down the heat and so has big bills. Because she is on illness benefit, she is not entitled to fuel allowance and, therefore, got none of the extra payments for that allowance. This is terrible stuff. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will continue where I left off because the question is on the same topic. I will further elaborate the problem. The Minister is saying that community welfare officers, CWOs, are there and people can get appointments. I am telling her that is not the experience that is being relayed to us. That is not happening. In the old days, people could go down to the CWO without any prior notice...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, huge numbers of families are being hammered with the cost of living, energy costs, food prices and so on, and the centrepiece of the Government's response to that has involved telling people to get exceptional needs payments. Pre-Covid, if you needed something like that, you would have a face-to-face meeting with a community welfare officer, CWO, whereas that is no...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give the Minister some examples, the first of which involves a couple in their 60s. The husband, who used to work, developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. They were on a big top-up arrangement, which people on the housing assistance payment, HAP, should not have to pay, and as a result they fell into arrears, given the cost-of-living hikes. We eventually got an exceptional needs...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I can help progress those cases, I will certainly send them to the Minister. My point is that many of the cases of desperate people are complicated. The case of somebody who has fallen into arrears on his rent because he is paying a HAP top-up, that is, someone whose wife has Alzheimer's disease, who used to work and whose HAP tenancy is based on an income he no longer has, is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the new report on rapid-build housing published by his Department. [57890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any allowance for utility bills can be made for those who are hosting refugees in their homes given the rising costs of energy bills and the pressure this is creating for many families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6378/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the reason for delay in regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants scheme; when the remaining outstanding applications will be finalised; if he will provide a breakdown of nationalities who get approval and who are still waiting for their applications to be finalised; and if he will make a...