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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies paying a top-up to the HAP payment out of all HAP and homeless HAP payments; the value of those top-ups; and the number of these tenants paying a top-up in receipt of a social welfare payment by local authority area. [17956/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not accept that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Taoiseach stated he did not know how much the biggest infrastructural project to be undertaken in the State in a very long time, which the Government committed to deliver, will cost. It is €3 billion and rising but he is not actually sure how much it will cost. We do not know when the plan will be decided, how it will be delivered or by whom it will be delivered. It is an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is unacceptable that a US investment fund should have the State over a barrel because of the fiasco of the process. We should draw a line under it, learn the lessons and start talking to the ESB or renationalise what is left of Eircom. The idea that a US investment fund would charge €3 billion and then own the network is just beyond appalling. This is an absolutely predictable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my question, which was simple and specific. Does he believe it is immoral that a person who receives a cancer diagnosis would get a different level of treatment and access to potentially life-saving drugs depending on whether or not he or she can afford particular private health insurance plans? I believe this is medical apartheid. It is as simple as that....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are clinically approved.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a simple question. Does the Taoiseach think it immoral that somebody who receives the devastating diagnosis of cancer but who happens to be a public patient who does not have or cannot afford extortionate levels of private health insurance, may have a less chance of surviving cancer because he or she may not be prescribed drugs that others who have private health insurance would get...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The list of threats that Donald Trump poses to the world is too long to go through, but I will ask about two. Trump's sabotage of the Paris climate change agreement is an open declaration that he does not care about the existential threat to humanity and life on the planet that is facing our children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the school students' climate change strike and their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He will be waiting a long time for that with Jared Kushner.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, who is sitting alongside the Taoiseach, has made several very welcome commitments to deal with the issues of bogus self-employment and the failure of employers to vindicate employment rights. Approximately five minutes' walk from Leinster House, there is a public contract job to refurbish the Irish Stock...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The public works contract for building workers specifically states that the main contractor is responsible for ensuring the rights of all employees. I would appreciate if a representative of the Department could go to speak to the workers and tell the contractors that they cannot throw 11 building workers out on the street without pay. The workers are owed money.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have finished. It is very important to vindicate the rights of workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said it is under review. It has been under review for a year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the Government raise the thresholds instead of, as is currently the case, culling people from the housing lists and abandoning tens of thousands of others and failing to give them housing support?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Second, will the Taoiseach commit to end the practice of people on HAP tenancies being forced to pay top-ups, because if they pay those top-ups, by definition, they are their children are driven into poverty?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That seriously is splitting hairs.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I need the Taoiseach's help in formulating questions I will ask him for it. I will cite the recent Social Justice Ireland report on these so-called incorrect facts. It states that approximately 230,000 children in Ireland are living in poverty today. That is one in five children under the age of 18. The group the Taoiseach refers to is the 110,000 people who are living in consistent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following the publication of the Social Justice Ireland report yesterday, do the Taoiseach and Government feel ashamed that 760,000 of our citizens are living in poverty and approximately 250,000 of them are children? This is in one of the richest countries in the world and, as the Taoiseach keeps reminding us, a country that has nearly full employment. A huge cohort of those living with...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he plans to take on the widespread and systematic abuse of the rights of Palestinian children who are subject to military law, arrest and interrogation and not accorded the same rights as Israeli children or the rights that would be expected to be given to children under international law; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures Ireland or the EU will take in response to the decision of the United States of America to recognise the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17630/19]