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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to increase Part V from 10% to a statutory minimum of 20%. [25720/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties here; the number suitable for social housing; and the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities by authority. [25721/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of measures (details supplied). [25850/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out annually in rent allowance in 2019 and to date in 2020; and the projected amount for the remainder of 2020 and 2021. [25688/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of ensuring the State contributory and non-contributory pensions are available to all those that reach 65 years of age. [25689/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reinstating the transitionary pension. [25690/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to introduce a universal State pension of €250 weekly and reduce the pension age to 65 years of age. [25691/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Housing Issues (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the funds saved following the transfer of recipients of rent allowance to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; the organisation responsible for the latter payments; and if so, the amount in each of the years since the commencement of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reinstating a concurrent payment of half-rate illness benefit and jobseeker’s benefit in addition to one parent family payment and widow’s and widower’s pensions. [25695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to increase child benefit in respect of children over 12 years of age by €30. [25697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reversing cuts to the back to education allowance. [25699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to increase social welfare payments to 2009 levels. [25840/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of measures (details supplied). [25849/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated average cost of keeping one young person in remand in a youth justice remand facility for one year. [25726/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average estimated cost of recruiting four youth workers, one team leader and an administration person in the youth work sector for one year. [25727/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health beds available in each CHO; and the number of persons waiting for beds. [25722/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do the witnesses think it is important for us to debate the strategy? The public are losing confidence and things are not going in the right direction. I do not think anybody could argue that things are going in the right direction at the moment. Notwithstanding differences of opinion, how important is it for us to have this debate? Even at our own committee, the Chair and I were very...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pity we only have a short time to discuss the last point. We need to have more of these discussions but that is for another day and we will talk to the committees here about that. Earlier Dr. Schaffer said that there is evidence that social gatherings, house parties and so on had contributed to the current situation. She may have information that we do not and this is part of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's decision to press ahead with the cuts to the PUP are a disgraceful and dangerous betrayal of thousands of working people who have lost jobs and incomes because of Government measures. The people who have been hit hardest by the pandemic are now being kicked while they are down. This is grossly unjust and a serious danger to the collective social solidarity that is absolutely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the development of the forthcoming plan for dealing with Covid-19. [25609/20]