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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Breaks Standardisation (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to issue specific guidelines for time to be set aside for eating and hygiene in primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10928/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a disability accommodation appeal will be allowed in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11040/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to protect high street retail in view of the increasing impact of online shopping; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11008/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister, Ms Hurley and the team for their attendance. I would like to make many points but, given the time available, I will condense them into one central point. The net effect of the failure of policies to deal with social and affordable housing and spiralling rents and property prices is social cleansing, particularly in Dublin. The Government's policies, which are reliant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing has been built.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I see the first brick laid, I will be impressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In response to my point on areas in Dublin with high rents and high property prices, the Minister acknowledged there are specific problems but he did not respond to the specifics when I cited examples showing why many of his policies cannot work. Does he acknowledge, for example, that the Rebuilding Ireland home loan cannot work on any scale in Dún Laoghaire when house costs are in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The housing projects are not built directly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The councils were already doing that work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether public procurement processes are fit for purpose in view of the cost overruns at the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10581/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to discuss public procurement and the lessons that we may learn from the debacle of the national children's hospital. Has the debacle of going from an initial estimate of €400 million to an initial bid agreed for just over €600 million, all the way up to €1.7 billion or is it €1.4 billion or €2 billion, given the Minister pause for thought about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask a simple question? Is profit included in the bid process? I presume BAM or anybody else would require a profit margin. Are these things examined? Does the Minister look at how its bid might compare with what the Government would do if the State did this work directly and did not require the taking of a profit and whether that would work out cheaper and better? When bids come...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it interesting that when doing this, it is completely outside the realms of consideration for the Minister to contemplate whether the State should do things directly itself. It would not require a profit motive, potentially would be able to get things cheaply in bulk and would be able to borrow money more cheaply. There are all sorts of possibilities as to why the State, when...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Portuguese Prime Minister. [10516/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with the Portuguese Prime Minister Portugal's model for dealing with illicit drugs? There are major parallels, historically and socially, between Portugal and Ireland in the sense that Portugal developed a big problem with illicit drugs at a similar time to this country in the 1980s. It was an enormous problem, with high rates of HIV, drug related crime, addiction...

Ceisteanna - Questions: All-Island Civic Dialogue (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also attended the dialogue and while dialogue is, of course, important in this current situation of Brexit, it is not much good if some of those involved are not in full possession of the real story. The Taoiseach says he has not read the report on the front page of one of the national newspapers on hundreds of gardaí being deployed to the Border counties. It is astonishing that he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: All-Island Civic Dialogue (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the all-island civic dialogue on 15 February 2019. [10515/19]