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Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: The carbon tax went up.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: 344. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will provide for educational impact assessments as per the programme for Government; and the progress in implementing this proposal. [3729/16]

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: Then he said that NAMA owned the loans, not the land. For God's sake, the land is the security that determines the value of the loan. The return on the investment in the land will repay the State. The Fine Gael attitude is that we get as much as we can and we throw it into the public finances to show the improvements we have made in those finances and to hell with those within the State...

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: There is still a time, believe it or not, when parties and political organisations want to satisfy and help all of society across this Republic, especially in the year that is in it and the commemoration it signifies.

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: I thank all contributors to the debate on the motion before the House. I acknowledge much of the content contained in many of the deliberations. I am particularly conscious of the fact many members of Fine Gael and the Labour Party have acknowledged the housing crisis to be an emergency. Deputy Nolan acknowledged there was no shame in admitting this is a crisis and admitting the failure of...

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: There was no mention of acts of treason by any Member of the previous Government, as was alleged by Deputy Gilmore to the catcalls of his colleagues. There was no mention of documents being shredded in the Taoiseach's office, now occupied by Deputy Enda Kenny, considering the fact he stated he sought to find them and despite the fact they had been in the hands of the Department of Finance....

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: No problem. Give us 20 seats and we will work with the Government.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case, including when the person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive an appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore, County Offaly. [3416/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (27 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case, including when the person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive therapy through Health Service Executive in the midlands. [3417/16]

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: What is the variance?

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: There were discrepancies in a response that the Minister gave to a parliamentary question last week.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: Not true.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: The Government was fumbling and fooling for 12 months.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: That is three years old.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that there are over 1,600 children and up to 780 families in emergency accommodation; accepts that families and children being placed in hotel rooms rather than proper accommodation is totally unacceptable; further accepts that due to lack of action the number of people on the social housing list has been allowed to rise to 130,000; agrees that...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: Should I wait for the Minister, Deputy Kelly?

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: Okay. Five years ago, Fine Gael and the Labour Party came into Government with a massive majority. They promised a softer and easier way to continue to close the gap between Government revenue and expenditure. Decent people voted for them. Even some decent Fianna Fáil people chose to lend their votes to them. Five years on, 800 families are homeless and 1,600 children live in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of raising rent supplement spending by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2701/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: 158. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of the implementation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2700/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Jan 2016)

Barry Cowen: 467. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has provided to local authorities to assist in the routine turnaround of vacant social housing properties when they are being transferred between tenancies, by local authority, in each of the years 2013 to 2015, inclusive; and the average length of time it takes for a local authority to turnaround a social...