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Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nonsense. Many planning permissions are granted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Zero council houses were built last year in Dún Laoghaire.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is getting worse again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all State apologies he has issued since he assumed office. [14272/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think, as I do, that it is time the State issues an apology to all those who are homeless in this country and for whom the State has failed in its duty and obligation to provide the most basic thing, which is affordable, secure housing? The homeless figures are accelerating disastrously once again. Despite all the talk about Housing for All and all the policy measures the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, one of the biggest issues in areas of significant deprivation is the impact of drug addiction on individuals, families and communities. I have often heard Government spokespeople pay lip service to the idea that we need to move away from the criminal approach to dealing with this problem and take a health-related approach but, in fact, we have not done that at all. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is getting worse.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [14270/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned Housing for All. Does he not have to accept now that it is failing disastrously? From my clinic, I can tell him about the number of people and families coming in, most of whom are working and who are facing eviction or who are already homeless. They have no prospect of finding rented accommodation under the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme or social housing....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No answer, in other words.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I expect sanctions to be imposed on Saudi Arabia and the apartheid State of Israel promptly following that announcement. I will not hold my breath on that, obviously. I again ask about the €1,000 that was promised to healthcare workers. The applause given to those healthcare workers for the work they did during the Covid pandemic - and are still doing - rings hollow now when the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have Private Members' time every six months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You do not care about the people in Yemen. The Government does not want to embarrass the-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask once again for the Government to allow time for a debate on the disastrous situation and war in Yemen. The Government rightly has moved heaven and earth to debate and set out a response to the disastrous situation in Ukraine but it is stubbornly resistant to discussing the war in Yemen that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and brought 14 million people to the brink of starvation....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants scheme to include everyone in need of regularisation in order that Ireland does not need to correct these mistakes in future generations to come; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the child benefit until the end of the school year in cases in which a child reaches 18 years of age but is still in full-time education during the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the former site of the St Patrick's refuge and laundry, Dún Laoghaire, which currently has a planning application for apartments has been assessed as to whether it is potentially a burial site; if not, if he plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing all persons in direct provision to work given the new refugee programme for those fleeing war in Ukraine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14565/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all our contributors. The main thing I am looking for is hope. I accept that the targets, figures and finances are important and that one has to go through all this detail to deliver social and affordable housing. I have been around a while now and note that nothing has changed about the human reality or the misery of people coming through my door week in, week out, owing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The CCMA delegates might have wanted to respond.