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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children that have spent time in homeless services over the past five years by age groups of zero to five, five to ten and ten to 16 years of age; the length of time each child has spent in homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51879/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether, in view of the severity of the current housing crisis, a more aggressive vacant site tax is needed to prevent hoarding and speculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46680/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the local property tax has failed to generate additional funding for local government and services since its introduction; his further views on whether an alternative method of funding local government is now needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46681/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for not being here earlier but I had questions in the Dáil Chamber. It is unthinkable that the public service broadcaster would not continue to exist and flourish because it always has played and always should play an absolutely key role in Irish society and cultural life and in its role in journalism. As I do not know how many of these questions Deputy Bríd Smith has...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very few.

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil could have voted Fine Gael out of Government this week.

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Coppinger. I have just come from the protest to which Deputy O'Sullivan referred. My apologies for being late. It was organised by the people who voluntarily have been out on the streets helping the homeless night in, night out in recent years because they are so appalled by the escalating housing and homelessness crisis. They have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not exaggerating when I say that the Government is betraying dementia sufferers and their families, both present and future, as a result of its failure to honour its promises to keep the doors of St. Joseph's dementia care facility in Shankill open. The Minister told me and others that the doors to St. Joseph's would not close. However, they have been closed-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the context of future admissions. This is a personal matter for me and many others in the area. Some of my loved ones ended their days in St. Joseph's and a personal friend of mine is there now. I and others have people close to us who will be looking to go there in the near future. They will not be able to do so because this Government is refusing to acknowledge the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about future residents.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about future residential care?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need more.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not say that to the archbishop.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Recreational Facilities (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that and I will look into it. It is maybe an area of hope. I wish the council executive in Dún Laoghaire showed as much energy and interest in maintaining this playground as the Minister has demonstrated in the past five minutes. I appreciate the thought. I thank Deputy Calleary for passing me a note. I appeal to Fianna Fáil on this matter as well. Fianna...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Recreational Facilities (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the necessary funds and support will be provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure the community supervised playground on Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, is maintained as a supervised playground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50939/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Recreational Facilities (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a local issue to Dún Laoghaire but it is very important. The playground on Library Road, formerly Johnny Carr's Park, has been a supervised playground since the Dominican nuns supervised it. Generations of local people from Dún Laoghaire have effectively been brought up in this playground. For the past ten years, Crosscare has employed two part-time supervisors of that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Recreational Facilities (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The funding has been provided by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Disgracefully, the executive has made a decision to pull the funding because Crosscare has pulled out, which I believe is a retrograde decision. The cost of it is buttons, at approximately €40,000 a year for two part-time staff who are members of the local community, but the value they give to the community...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Authority Facilities (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funds and support will be provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure the community supervised playground on Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, is maintained as a supervised playground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50637/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (5 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants assigned to each primary school; the number of students that confirmed the need for special assistance in each of the schools in each of the years 2007 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50675/19]