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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement the recommendations of the Housing Commission report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new resources he will make available to the DRHE in 2025 considering the relentless increase in numbers of people availing of emergency accommodation across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42965/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether section 39 workers funded by her Department can expect to receive the pay increases negotiated at the Workplace Relations Commission with the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43070/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 806. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 26 September 2024, to report on a submission regarding section 39 workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43071/24]

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You cannot win.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a few of them.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a remarkable achievement by the Government that it has a budget surplus of, I think, €25 billion. The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong. I think it is €25 billion or in that region. It has a windfall of €13 billion plus in Apple tax money that it did not want because it would have preferred that Apple, a staggeringly wealthy and profitable company,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sharon is 66 and has just retired. Her husband John is 66 and will retire in December. They have worked all their lives and paid their taxes and they are both homeless. They were evicted because the Government lifted the eviction ban and were made homeless in August. They are relying on a day-to-day basis on the emergency telephone number and on couchsurfing with different relatives...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a freefone number.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not available to people whose income is above the threshold.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not against the HAP. I am against it as a substitute for social housing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give them the HAP.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against it as a substitute for housing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You just did.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are using the freefone number.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to contact co-operative housing and DLR with regard to the new social housing development called St. Germaine, in Ballybrack village, to investigate the complaints by residents of major and multiple defects in this new development including serious damp, potentially dangerous electrics and serious, reported fire hazards and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40038/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it would be fair to describe the Cherrywood development as a flagship development for Ireland presenting itself as a place where there is quality of life, there is the housing we need and where you have all the amenities, facilities, infrastructure and so on necessary for a place where people can live and work. It is the biggest residential development in the country. I do not like...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And shops.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the shocking case of a new social housing development, St. Germaine, in Ballybrack in my area. It is in the hands of Co-operative Housing Ireland, an AHB, and was built by a developer called Kavco. It was finished at the end of last year and there are 31 units with many families. I met people the other day and, while they were delighted that,...