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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (10 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of contracts awarded in 2022 by his Department or bodies under his aegis outside the standard procurement process in order to assist the arrival of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 870. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of contracts awarded in 2022 by his Department or bodies under his aegis outside the standard procurement process in order to assist the arrival of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23188/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 890. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide details of contracts awarded in 2022 by her Department or bodies under her aegis outside the standard procurement process in order to assist the arrival of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23201/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Government for agreeing to the debate I asked for on this. I did so in response to the Minister's letter, which I responded to a number of weeks ago. I will not get into the politics or the foreign policy because I do not have time and we will debate that on another day. I want to discuss the practical issue of how we do what we have to do, namely, both accommodate Ukrainian...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will urgently review the housing assistance payment limits for social housing which are hopelessly inadequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22195/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Across all the area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and in much of Dublin, the HAP limits that people have available to them if they are looking for rental property are not even at the races in terms of the levels of rent. One will not find a two-bedroom apartment for less than €2,000 per month and more often it is €2,200 per month. Something has to be done. Otherwise people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the long run or even in the medium term, I am not in favour of pouring huge amounts of money into rent support, but I accept that for now, until we address the social housing deficit, we must do it. We have to give people options. However, this is a matter of urgency. I am not exaggerating. Everybody who is approaching me, and the number has been increasing over the last few months,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The substantial issue, of course, is that we need more social housing stock. By the way, and we will discuss this later, we should be looking for purchases in excess of 10% in private developments as well, given the situation we are now facing and to increase the options for people. Apart from that, I should also mention the income thresholds, because I probably will not get a chance to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless it is addressed, people on disability payments or blind payments could potentially lose up to €90 of their payments. Inevitably when one is getting a higher payment as one would on the basic income, it is going to impact on other payments. However, the critical point here, as has been pointed out by the MEAI and others, including Disabled Artists and Disabled Academics, DADA,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will work with the Minister for Social Protection to ensure that payments to artists with disabilities will be protected as the basic income for artists scheme is rolled out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22552/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, the Minister is aware of the issue. I say, "Well done", to the Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland, MEAI, among others, for campaigning on this. However, it is worth saying, on the task force that was looking into the basic income project, there was no representative of people with disabilities and we need to be absolutely certain that there is not a disincentive for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately introduce a ban on evictions as was done during Covid considering the escalating housing crisis and the urgent need to also put roofs over the heads of those fleeing war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22194/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the vacant buildings his Department has already identified that might be used for emergency accommodation and if he will commit to continuously publishing this list as it is updated on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22196/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of income limits for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate the empty seamark buildings on Merrion Road and see if they could play a role in providing emergency accommodation or could be retrofitted for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22197/22]

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the Minister had reasons for leaving the Chamber, but I am disappointed he is not here to hear what I have to say because the situation is just getting worse. We can bandy around alternative policies and plans until the cows come home but seeing is believing. I want the Government to understand, if it does not already, that the situation has got decisively worse in the past few...

Eurojust: Motion (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is little doubt in my mind or I think in most people's minds that Russia has committed and is committing war crimes in Ukraine. Any efforts to hold them to account, to bring out the truth of those war crimes, to prosecute them and to deliver justice to the people who are victims of those crimes should be pursued. We absolutely must do that. However, I have little faith in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is there for them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18412/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage made very reckless, irresponsible and somewhat bizarre comments on the rising homelessness situation at the weekend when he suggested that it was to do with the number of European Economic Area, EEA, and non-economic area refugees - which, by the way, is everybody in the world - coming into the country, but not Ukrainians. I find this a...