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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolute disgrace but it is typical of a Government trying to divert attention away from its failure to provide public and affordable housing and to essentially blame the victims. I will take one of the administrative areas the Minister is talking about. My administrative area stretches from Little Bray to Sandyford. Let us imagine someone has been on the housing list for 15...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the thresholds for entitlement to social housing will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8177/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The interview with Owen Keegan, CEO of Dublin City Council, the biggest local and housing authority in the country, in The Sunday Business Post on the housing and homelessness crisis was, to some extent, very revealing, to a large extent, absolutely shocking, and, to a significant extent, absolutely unacceptable. I want to know what the Taoiseach thinks of his comments. They come as part of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with that? A small proportion-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It demonstrates a rotten attitude by the authorities that are supposed to be dealing with this housing and homelessness crisis. Mr. Keegan admitted that the private sector was failing but then went on to say that we have to rely on the private sector and that our homelessness services are so wonderful they are acting as a magnet. It is not on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic division of his Department. [7979/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are critical of all those regimes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those regimes are not supported by my party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to Northern Ireland and the meetings he attended. [6710/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One unfortunate mantra the Taoiseach has continued to trot out, which we have just heard from Deputy Micheál Martin, is the notion that the renewable heat incentive scandal was some sort of little Mickey Mouse issue that should not have been of concern.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy implied it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy did imply it. That was my take on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the same attitude the Government seems to have. It is treated as if it was a small issue that the parties should get over, as if there was nothing important about it. Eamon McCann was the first Assembly member to call for an election over this issue because we were talking about hundreds of millions of pounds. It is an absolutely shocking scandal. It took place in the context of a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----institutions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that somehow we sacrifice the need to deal with scandals like this. Frankly, it is the Northern equivalent of the national children's hospital in its scale.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If Deputy Micheál Martin wants to make an argument about the institutions he should make it, but------
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Deputy. We should take the scandal very seriously. There were very good reasons to challenge an Executive that was responsible for such huge scandal in terms of the expenditure of public money.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Taoiseach about another aspect of British politics which we heard echoed today on "Morning Ireland", when a contributor echoed a position of Theresa May's about which we should have something to say. We had a journalist making a casual connection between support for Palestinians, criticism of the Israeli state and anti-Semitism, essentially suggesting they were all the same...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barrett is quite right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [7978/19]