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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?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This report is from the Royal College of Physicians. I think it knows a thing or two about the development of children and this is what it is saying is the children who spent time in homelessness accommodation. I put in parliamentary questions and I am expecting answers tomorrow, although the Minister just indicated we will not get those answers. How many children - we know there are 4,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the land and homes on a site (details supplied) will remain in public ownership into the future in view of the possible transfer of a site to the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51873/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that income eligibility for public housing is raised to ensure that those on middle incomes have access to safe and secure housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51872/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that the quorum in An Bord Pleanála is only three members, which means that two members of the board are making decisions on major planning applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51870/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure the figures of those on the RAS and HAP transfer lists are included on the list of those awaiting social housing by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51874/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are playing games.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Their names are Pauline and Jill. They have worked there for more than a decade. In Pauline's case it is probably about 20 years. Many of the children who go there now will not go anymore if the supervision is removed. Some agenda is operating here. I believe somebody else wants the building that they partly use, to be honest. That is what is happening and it is wrong and retrograde....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pauline and Jill.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will work with organisations (details supplied), Tusla, the local authority and other State agencies to ensure that the supervised playground on Library Road, Dún Laoghaire remains supervised into the future; the steps she can take in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51544/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised with the Minister the fate of the supervised playground on Library Road in Dún Laoghaire before, and seeing as I am on a roll with her, I hope that there is something that can be done to save the supervision at this playground which is due to terminate. This amenity has been there for decades and has served a disadvantaged community and many children and parents. The...