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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of approximately 40 workers in the film industry who submitted their names and PPS numbers who allege they have been blacklisted from employment in the film industry as a result of their membership of particular unions or their public criticisms of employment practices in the film industry has been examined...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of active HAP tenancies in quarters 2 and 3 of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52597/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 734. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP or RAS tenancies that have terminated in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and in the first three quarters of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52598/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in each of the years 2017, 2018 and the first three quarters of 2019 that were transfers from rent allowance supported tenancies or RAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52606/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults and children that have spent time living in emergency accommodation or have registered as homeless in each year since 2014; the length of time they have been in emergency accommodation or homeless by headings (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52608/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will dispense with a couple of red herrings, although I acknowledge that the Minister, his staff and local authority workers are working hard on this issue. Things are happening but the problem, to be clear, is that Rebuilding Ireland is flawed because it relies, by a ratio of 3:1, on the private sector to build social housing and is, therefore, destined to fail. That is my argument, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two one-line questions for the Minister. If the Constitution needs to be changed to pass a Bill like that, why did the Minister oppose a Bill that we brought forward in 2017 to change the Constitution, precisely to facilitate that? The Constitution should be changed in order to ensure that property rights do not supersede the right of people to be housed. To clarify what the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should tell pensioners who have to struggle with high rents, property taxes and a high cost of living that their pension is wonderful. It is a fact that the countries with the highest age at which one can receive one's pension entitlements are those that were affected by austerity, including Greece, Ireland and Italy. In other countries in Europe, which are not as fast-growing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad the Taoiseach mentioned employer's PRSI because the reason is that employers do not pay their fair share of PRSI in Ireland If they did, we would not be forcing people to wait until the age of 68 in order to get their pension. Workers in this country pay the same average amount of PRSI as their European counterparts but employers pay about half of that and that is the problem....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Government not reverse that unjust attack on people's pension rights?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are trying to, but they might be stopped.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In that case, people should be allowed to retire for longer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers pay for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The bitter and lasting fruits of the savage austerity that was imposed on working people first by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party and then by Fine Gael and Labour are very plain to see with the brutal housing crisis we face and the shocking situation in the health service but events in France over the past five days where massive demonstrations and strikes are taking place remind us of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in Dún Laoghaire.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has read the recent report on the effect of homelessness on the development of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many unacceptable manifestations of the housing and homelessness emergency, which the Minister's policies have generated, but the most upsetting is the plight of children in emergency accommodation or who are homeless. A number of reports from the Royal College of Physicians and from housing NGOs have exposed the shocking extent to which children in homeless accommodation are being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are fed up of hearing the Minister reel off statistics and claim achievements when it is blatantly obvious to everybody that the housing and homelessness emergency is worse than it has ever been. In terms of social housing delivery output, let me repeat that in my area, next year, two council houses will be built. If one includes AHBs, it will be 13. That is how much new delivery we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----difficulties in relationships between parents and their children, and children born into homelessness unable to swallow, unable to learn how to crawl. Does the Minister think that is acceptable? What is he going to do to get children out of that abusive situation?