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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that are due arrears as a result of the heavy workload in her Department; when they can expect to receive these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38948/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What we have been doing is not realistic. It has not delivered, so that is not real. The lists are long and we should look at the cost. With HAP or RAS, in my area the rent is €2,000 a month to a private landlord. That is €580,000 over 25 years for social housing and the State does not even own it. If the State does a leasing deal of €28,000 per annum, that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the necessary funds and other assistance to develop the Oscar Traynor Road site for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38400/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who wants an unrealistic proposal? That is nonsense talk, and the reference to ideology is nonsense talk. The Minister has his ideology and the ideology of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and the Green Party has dominated housing policy forever. The result is that sites in public ownership, which should long since have had public housing built on them, have sat empty because over those...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Minister talking about?

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those who are trying to underestimate the threat of Covid-19, as Deputy Eoghan Murphy just did, need to explain why there are hospitals in this city turning patients away because they have had Covid outbreaks, irrespective of whether the patients are Covid patients or non-Covid patients. That is with infection rates at a relatively low level. If the rates rise, our hospitals will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The landslide in Donegal resulting from the construction of a wind farm was a shocking reminder of the Government's failure to take seriously what happens when the development of renewable energy is in the hands of private developers who only care about profit and do not give a hoot about the environment. It was not the first time we had seen that type of environmental damage resulting from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has gone too far in the other direction.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change. [36677/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit. [36676/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems to me that the parliamentary liaison unit remit is to do everything to shut down the voices of questioning from the Opposition. There has essentially been a systematic drive by the Government to do that. The latest example of this is the refusal to allow the Minister for Justice to come to the House to address questions. We also saw this with the change in speaking arrangements....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Future of Media Commission (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irrespective of the criticisms we may sometimes have of RTÉ, public service broadcasting and having a national broadcaster are important because the alternative is the big, private, for-profit IT companies and the big digital online purveyors of movies, such as Amazon and Netflix, which are making an absolute fortune. If we are to safeguard the future of public service broadcasting and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Future of Media Commission (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of the Future of Media Commission; and the role his Department will have in supporting the work of the commission. [36675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that public land, zoned for housing, will be developed as 100% social and affordable housing in view of the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38403/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the upcoming affordable housing scheme; the cost of affordable to buy homes; the eligibility criteria for the homes; the scheme of allocations for cost rental homes; the system for deciding the rents on the homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the eviction ban until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Registration (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the responsibility the Company Registrations Office has to ensure the information it receives from a company is correct; and the responsibility it has when it is brought to its attention that the address given as the principal registered office does not exist. [38253/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow taxi drivers who have little or no work as a result of the Covid-19 crisis to suspend their licences or to obtain a rebate for the unused period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38249/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has approved the extension of the ten-year rule for the age of vehicle for taxis for another year due to Covid-19; if so, when the extension will be in place; when the NTA is changing its rules, regulations to reflect this extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38803/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to ensure a secondary school placement in September 2021 for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38214/20]