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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Vehicles (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans of the NTA to increase the number of wheelchair accessible vehicle minibus drivers coming into the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Vehicles (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans of the NTA to convert the stock of standard taxis to wheelchair accessible vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52836/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans of Bord Fáilte for accessible tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52838/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 606. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken to implement the national positive ageing strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53110/19]

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.