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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the interim application for a temporary school (details supplied) is delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she will take to address the endless delays and disappointments in relation to the provision of a school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant has a right to an oral hearing when requesting an appeal of a social welfare decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49474/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Engagements (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet delegates from a representative body (details supplied) in October; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49746/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he will take in relation to the fact that the only graduate-entry medicine specific loan has been removed by a bank (details supplied); if he has discussed the matter with the Minister for Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of services provided to a child (details supplied) after being privately diagnosed with ASD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49815/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have quite a few questions and, therefore, I hope the witnesses will give brief answers. The local authority of Mr. Curran and Ms Keenan is going to deliver 2,318 new social homes by the end of 2026 but it has 2,458 households currently on the housing waiting list, another 1,768 that are in RAS or HAP tenancies and on waiting lists, and it projected as of July that a further 2,825 will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take that point but let us be clear that I am correct. There will be 4,400 households on the list at the end of this plan whereas, according to Mr. Curran, there are currently approximately 3,000 households on it. That is a grim scenario. I do not blame Mr. Curran, but it is just not good enough. We have a flipping disaster in Dún Laoghaire. The suffering it is causing to people is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not forget, though, that even if we just take those on the list now and put that figure against what the council is planning to build, it will fall short. If you add to that the 2,825 people expected to be added to the list in the next few years, it means we will be in a worse position at the end of this period, with thousands of extra people on the list. Something must be done about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I request that those figures be provided because we need to know how many people are being removed from the list as a result of the failure to raise the income thresholds. The phrase "we are not actively in the market" was used. I have been urging the Government to go into the market and buy houses, especially in circumstances where people are facing homelessness. The Government has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many affordable houses are we going to get in Cherrywood and how much will they cost? Do we have any idea of how much the affordable and cost-rental units will cost in Shanganagh when they are constructed? Turning to Kelly's Hotel, which is owned by the council, and which has been empty for about 20 years, what is happening with it? I refer to Kelly's Hotel in George's Place in...

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, Martin Hayes is brilliant. The NCH has worked to overcome that perception and is very committed to doing so and to showcasing not just classical music but also contemporary music and projecting itself outwards. In this case the NCO and choir are projecting outwards that they exist, and that they and the concert hall are there for everybody. However, we need resources to do that....

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a good news story without a shadow of a doubt. It secures the future of the National Symphony Orchestra. For a period, its future existence was imperilled. It is positive that it is being put on a statutory framework after the transfer earlier this year and that it is being matched with additional money to reinforce that and try to bring it up to full strength. I commend the...

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mine is not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are in an absolutely dire state with homelessness and evictions. We have record levels of people in emergency accommodation and a massive spike in people being evicted through no fault of their own because of the sale of properties by landlords. I note that even Fianna Fáil backbenchers, somewhat belatedly, are now calling for what we have been calling for some time, which is a ban...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Buy the houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on progress of Housing for All which is led by his Department. [44837/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's refusal to raise the income thresholds for social housing or social housing supports means that thousands of people affected by the housing crisis are being denied any assistance. Here is an example communicated to me yesterday. Leaving out the name, the message stated the woman concerned, her husband and her two children were homeless in Nenagh. It went on to say the...