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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that local authorities have bought with tenants in situ; the number of local authorities that are in the process of buying same; the number that have made enquiries in relation to buying same broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53030/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all housing estates and properties not under the purview of local authorities; the number of units and residencies individually affected in Dún Laoghaire, Rathdown and across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if illness benefit recipients will the receive the November 2022 cost-of-living double payment; and if not, if she will outline the rationale behind that decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53120/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this week, I warned that the Government's eviction ban Bill might not protect people with notice-to-quit termination dates before its passage. Those concerns were dismissed. The Bill was published earlier and, sadly, it is very clear I was right. The Bill states explicitly that only those with termination dates that fall after its passage will receive protection against eviction....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest the Minister pass them back now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the action that he intends to take concerning the ongoing inability to staff the disability network teams; the impact that is having on early intervention for children with developmental delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50101/22]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State was reported as saying, I think on Friday of last week, that the Irish people were not ready to join NATO yet. He revealed the cynical agenda and the attempt to condition Irish public opinion by exploiting the tragic situation in Ukraine to try to shred the last remnants of Ireland's neutrality. We all of course condemn in the strongest terms Putin's bloody imperialist...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our ability as Deputies to function in these buildings is crucially dependent on the ushers and service officers. They are the first in and the last out, but, in general, they are pretty poorly paid. I raised with the Taoiseach a while ago the issue of the divisors for calculating overtime for ushers still being based on the old Croke Park hours. Essentially, this deprives the ushers and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [51710/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, NESC. [50104/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I propose that NESC and, indeed, the Government urgently look into the question of the nationalisation of our entire energy sector. I want to demonstrate one example to show the Taoiseach the problems we face. That example is the bills over the course of a year of one woman on a district heating system in an area in Dun Laoghaire. In the bill from January to March, the tariff is 0.8 cent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not on district heating.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just one instance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will send the Taoiseach the material.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: First Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a timeline for future citizens’ assemblies. [50103/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss will look very closely at the manner in which our marine resources and offshore marine areas have been grabbed for so-called "relevant projects" in offshore industrial wind. The developers have chosen the sites, which are often very sensitive sites that arguably or definitely should have been designated as marine protected areas, something...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: First Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to ban evictions for the duration of the current housing emergency. Incidentally, this is the third Bill that People Before Profit has introduced in an effort to ban evictions where people would end up homeless through no fault of their own. The first of these was introduced in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Months of Opposition pressure, public anger and protest yesterday dragged the Government kicking and screaming into bringing in a temporary eviction ban. According to the Government's interesting figures yesterday, as welcome as the belated ban is it still means that 2, 273 people will face eviction after the ban ends, which means that the level of homelessness is likely to be up to 13,000...