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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason means tested qualified adult payments for those on a contributory pension treat savings as income to be assessed which can result in the loss of the payment when at the same time persons are encouraged by the Government to save for their old age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42143/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location in which the method for means testing for various social protection payments is laid out in legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42144/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is no problem for me.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of his plans to provide free contraception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41365/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to speed up access to assessment of needs for children to bring it in line with the statutory requirements to ensure the waiting list is no longer than three months and is completed in six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41366/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (9 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role her Department has played in the Mercosur and Ireland-US trade deals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37382/19]

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From the feedback I have got from outside this House, people are saying that this budget gave nothing, or less than nothing, to workers, pensioners, students or social welfare recipients but it hit people with increased prices on cigarettes and a regressive and unfair carbon tax. That is the truth. Punishing people for having an addiction is not the way to reduce smoking. Perhaps giving...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are we debating Financial Resolution No. 1 only?

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is where all the extra money being crowed about by the Minister of State is going. The number of real council houses being built is abysmal and everything else is money going out the door into the pockets of NAMA developers that have been rehabilitated, vulture and cuckoo funds and big corporate landlords. They are making a killing. This budget has nothing about rents. What has...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It may not have been. I may have the country wrong. It was Russia, and it is not a bastion of anything good but at least it can provide cheap public transport. Instead of punishing people with carbon taxes, we should reduce people's fuel bills with a major national insulation installation programme. The current system is grossly unfair for people living in public housing as they cannot...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We needed a radical budget to deal with the threat of a no-deal Brexit, the disastrous housing and homelessness crisis, the crisis in our public health system, the climate emergency, the astronomical cost of childcare and the woefully inadequate disability and respite services, among a whole range of other areas. We did not get a radical budget or radical action on any of these crises,...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mortgages are cheaper than the rents being charged in Dublin. How wealthy does one have to be to pay the average rental price in Dublin of €2,000, or €2,200 in my area, or even €2,400 a month? Who can afford that? Of course there is a group of people making money out of it. What is the Government doing to tax them? It includes the vulture funds, the cuckoo funds and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has had their shared access to a SNA withdrawn for the 2019-20 school year in view of the fact that the person still has a recommendation for one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40513/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider purchasing an upright MRI scanner here and failing that if he will allow patients in need of an upright MRI scan to travel to the UK and reclaim the full cost under the treatment abroad scheme, which currently does not cover it as it is only available in a private clinic in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40744/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet with this Deputy and a person (details supplied) to discuss older workers and community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40714/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Irish Water is no longer installing domestic water meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40549/19]

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is all fracked gas.

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only reason this is being discussed is that climate activists, Deputy Bríd Smith and People Before Profit badgered the Minister and forced the debate. Now that we have forced the debate on the Minister, he should refrain from putting forward this terminal for liquid natural gas from fracked sources as a priority project to the European Commission tomorrow. He has no democratic...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe that for the past six months, the Government, specifically the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, have been in breach of their legal obligation to produce audited accounts for the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and to lay those accounts before this House. The transfer of Dún Laoghaire...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is derisory.