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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules that are around rents charged by approved housing bodies and upward rent reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10943/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the means test for disability grants, including in cases in which there are multiple owners of the house in question but only one or two residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11211/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if recent changes have been made to the tenant purchase scheme; if so, if these changes need to be ratified by each council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11306/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons and families who have been removed from housing lists across the country over the past two years as a result of being above the income limit for social housing support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive list of the number of new social housing support units provided in 2021 by delivery method that is LA direct build; LA Acquisition programme; Part V divided by lease or buy, including length of leases AHB build; HAP including whether the new HAPs are replacements or for new RAS tenancies,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 850 road licences in his Department’s plan that are for the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11307/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have briefed and informed the relevant Department responsible for roadside trees of the dangers to traffic and pedestrians from falling trees due to Ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11309/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on week two of the February dashboard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11310/22]

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry. It is laudable to launch a policy referring to town centres first to address the often unacceptable levels of dereliction and neglect that many of our town centres have suffered from. The town of Dún Laoghaire is the capital of my local authority area. I remember as a teenager that it was a vibrant, buzzing and dynamic town....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if all arts workers, not only performers and artists but including crew and technicians, will be eligible for the basic income pilot scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10513/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason she is limiting the basic income pilot scheme to 2,000 applicants; if she will reconsider this number given that it represents a very small cohort of those working in the arts and culture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of establishing the eligibility criteria for the basic income pilot scheme for workers in the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10512/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider developing a register for artists, performers, crew and technicians and all those working in arts and culture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the projected amounts that will be raised from the carbon tax that are ring-fenced for retrofitting programmes in each of the years 2022 to 2030, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ESB ecar cards require a minimum credit of €5 at all times; the rationale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10544/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite approval for the submission of detailed cost analysis plan by a school project (details supplied) for building proposal submitted on 31 January 2022 in order to avoid any delay that may result in an inflation in cost in the interim as has happened in the past; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10523/22]

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vladimir Putin is a thug, an autocrat, a despot and a warmonger. His military aggression in Ukraine is completely unacceptable and he should get his troops out. There is no doubt about that and he should be roundly condemned. This is not new for Putin or the Russian state. It has a long history of treating its neighbouring countries as a prison house. In fact, famously, tsarist Russia...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the shared island unit will hold its next dialogue. [9701/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Leaders' Questions earlier, I asked the Taoiseach to consider imposing rent controls as is being done in France. The problem of rising and unaffordable rents is worse in Ireland than pretty much anywhere else in Europe, but it is happening everywhere. The Taoiseach gave me what was, no doubt, his scriptwriter's pat answer to fob this off, that it did not really work in Berlin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.