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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. We should not debate matters we do not have to debate. Insurance fraud should be stamped out. Excessive awards should not happen. Cases being dragged on for ever and ever with extortionate legal costs should not happen. We need to streamline that in the interests of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----society, business and people who have to take out insurance for one reason or another. My point is that there is no mechanism to prevent insurance companies taking advantage of the well-intentioned work of the committee and all parties or of the measures taken by the Minister of State. I put it to the Minister of State that is what they are doing. They are taking advantage of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am firmly of the view that they are. As I said, I believe we need a not-for-profit insurance company. If one looks at road safety generally, it has improved over recent years. Safety in the workplace has generally improved, with workplace fatalities going down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. We agree on that point. As Charlie Weston rightly put it, there is something wrong in the Irish insurance industry and it is not just about these matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point is that we will be here again dealing with high insurance premiums in two years when all of this is gone through because they are profiteering. I have raised with the Minister of State and his predecessor engagement with the taxi advisory committee on the specific problems faced by the taxi industry. I understand one meeting occurred with Insurance Ireland and the taxi advisory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will anything practical come out of it? Will anything be done for taxi drivers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that as much as the Minister of State can say? Yes. The issue was raised repeatedly by me and others as well as by taxi drivers that premiums for them were so high that their livelihoods were at risk. If they had even the slightest prang, it could push their premiums to a point where it was not viable to operate as a taxi driver. That is still a particular problem and we need taxis....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is it?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More money needs to be spent on housing and health to address the crisis in both of those things and in many areas of the public service too. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council representatives said - I am on the committee - that if the Government is going to do that, then it must find extra sources of revenue. Those of us in People Before Profit are unique in that in every single budget...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government this morning, Mercy Law, the Children's Ombudsman, the Children's Rights Alliance and Focus Ireland gave an utterly damning indictment of the Government's treatment of children, specifically children who are affected by the housing and homelessness crisis, detailing, for example, that 167 families have been in emergency hub...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [23993/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A popular revolution in Sudan has been ongoing for several months to overthrow the dictatorship of al-Bashir. He fell in April, but a military junta is viciously repressing a popular movement of ordinary people demanding democracy. Just in the past week we have seen a massacre in which up to 100 people were killed, bringing the overall death toll to many hundreds more. It is worth saying...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to improve employment and working conditions for workers in the film industry following the recent debate in Dáil Éireann on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24235/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (12 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider establishing an expansive nationwide public programme to employ artists and creative workers to work in schools and communities, particularly with young persons, in exchange for a living income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24234/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with EU leaders at the informal European Council meeting. [22683/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings in Paris on 15 May 2019. [22684/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not true. How can the Taoiseach say that?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (11 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some landlords or their agents are refusing to rent to HAP recipients due to the fact they are adding HAP to the income of the recipient (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Support Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 393. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a replacement scheme for the mobility allowance for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24182/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the household benefits package will be restored for those in receipt of carer's allowance that are not living with those they care for; and if such carers will be made eligible for the fuel allowance. [24075/19]