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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners who have been vaccinated to date against Covid-19; the number vaccinated who are over 60 years of age; the number vaccinated who are medically vulnerable; the timescale for those who have not been vaccinated to receive a vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28506/21]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Downes and his departmental colleagues for their contributions. Am I correct that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform produces the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, report?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I read one a while ago, which was basically an assessment of public housing as against rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and housing assistance payment, HAP, arrangements. An IGEES report indicated it would cost considerably more to continue with RAS and HAP than direct construction, which requires more capital investment upfront but where the long-term costs are lower. Was that done by the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I agree very much with that. It is something I have been arguing for quite a long time. Has that lesson been taken on board? Are there changes to plans for capital investment that would significantly move us on from the Rebuilding Ireland targets? As a reminder, the initial Rebuilding Ireland targets were for about 133,000 social housing units, of which roughly 90,000 were going to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would prefer that, if possible.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Certainly, rhetorically we have heard some shift and that is good news but there is still a huge dependence on current forms of expenditure. Ms Costello can tell me the numbers, but the original target was for about 87,000 to 90,000 units, which are long-term arrangements in many cases. Is it Ms Costello's understanding that the trajectory, that is, the plan and the objective, is to get to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will leave it at that. I am gathering from that reply that there is not a definite plan as to where this is heading but there is a shift in trajectory. I am glad of that shift in trajectory but I believe we need a plan that says there is an end point in all of this. My next question is on a similar theme. It relates to Covid and is more for the health side. There has been a lot of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is limited. There is a common theme to my questions. I welcome the additional money being invested and so on but what seem to be lacking are clear objectives for where this is heading. When figures are bandied around and we say an additional €1 billion is being thrown in here, and we say we are spending more than we have ever spent in the history of the State, which is a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will just flag a few issues because I am out of time. There has been a theme to my questions, namely, that we are a little lacking in clearly specified objectives. There are trajectories, additional allocations and a general recognition that we might need to move in a particular direction, but there are not clearly specified objectives and there is more work to be done there. I have not...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That has been the common theme of my questions and I flag that for our guests. I do not have time to go into the arts expenditure but I think we have no idea what we are getting for much of the funding in the area, such as that relating to film investment. We have lots of money going out but-----
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All the amendments in the group are from Solidarity-People Before Profit. We discussed much of this subject matter in the previous, more general, discussion, which concerned the Title, but this is the group of amendments dealing with us setting out the alternative approach that we feel should have been pursued with the Land Development Agency. This is to make it a land assembly agency that...
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 6, to delete “housing so as to address deficiencies in the housing market” and substitute “public and affordable housing so as to address deficiencies in the housing supply”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, line 6, after “market;” to insert the following: “to provide for a requirement that a proportion of the dwellings built be genuinely affordable in perpetuity to rent or buy and that the remainder remain public housing and that the proportion be decided by the relevant local authority in consultation with the communities;”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4: In page 7, line 7, to delete “DAC” and substitute “public agency”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: In page 7, line 8, after “public” to insert “and relevant private”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, line 9, after “of” to insert “such”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, line 9, to delete “develop” and substitute “assemble”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, line 10, to delete “, including with other persons or bodies”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 9: In page 7, lines 12 and 13, to delete “to enable the Agency to form subsidiaries for the purposes of carrying out its functions;”.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, line 14, after “Public” to insert “and Relevant Private”.