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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to making food supplements and vitamins available under the medical card scheme in circumstances in which they have been recommended by a doctor and are necessary for the health of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5123/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants removed from the housing list in each of the years 2014 to 2018 due to being over the income thresholds by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5437/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the income threshold criteria for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5438/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed): Dr. Micheál Collins (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Collins for attending. I welcome the fact that he welcomes our focus on this. It is an area about which everyone needs to think more. I wish there was more media attention on it. There is major debate in respect of direct expenditures in the budget. There is almost no debate about the massive amount of money that could be used for other things but is accounted for by tax...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed): Dr. Micheál Collins (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. Collins said that every tax expenditure - and I absolutely agree with him on this - is money that could be spent in a different way on the same sector or on something completely different. Does he believe that as part of proper scrutiny that there needs to be a comparison done on that? Let us take two examples that we looked at recently. The research and development tax credit is up to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed): Dr. Micheál Collins (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask a couple of brief questions?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed): Dr. Micheál Collins (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there potential for significant abuse in the area of capital allowances, deductibles and reliefs of various sorts in the corporate area? I am of the opinion that there is. How do we scrutinise such allowances to prevent abuse? I refer to company cars and supposed business trips which confer a very significant benefit on the traveller. Is it in the public interest for a businessperson...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed): Dr. Micheál Collins (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where did they go?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the changes in scheduling that have taken place in bus routes now operated by a company (details supplied) in comparison to when the routes were operated by Dublin Bus; the reason for the frequent disruption to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4851/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to whether councils sent incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected across all local authorities; the amount potentially denied to applicants across all local authorities due to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason councils were issued incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected by all local authorities; the estimated number that could have been denied by local authorities nationally due to councils not applying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. They were extremely informative and helpful. I welcome the fact that they all in their different ways confirm what everybody knows, that the private market is not capable of delivering affordable housing for great numbers of people. Although the ESRI gave us a lot of useful information I do not know if it said how much of our housing needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in applying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was one question to which I did not get an answer. Is the delay in the delivery of an affordable housing scheme related to the cost affordability dilemma? Should we, therefore, focus on affordability to solve that problem? Will Mr. Brennan comment on the projected on Mullinastill Road? Why was it rejected?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) last met. [4068/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (30 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the reason prescriptions issued by hospitals are not valid on medical cards unless reissued by the green form system by the general practitioner of the person; if his attention has been drawn to the undue stress this causes elderly and ill persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4461/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping (30 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations that allow a parking agency to clamp and fine in cases in which a person has paid the parking fee but has made a clerical error when entering information such as bay number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4463/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (30 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive has not been issuing Leap cards to homeless families since October 2018 and has no junior Leap cards available; if families will be reimbursed for travel expenses during this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4462/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Abbey Theatre: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for not being here earlier as Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell was kind enough to point out. I am also not a member of the joint committee, although I do attend as often as I can. I thank the Chairman for accommodating me. I was on the picket line all morning for the nurses' strike. That is why I was late. If I go over ground that has been covered, I apologise. When I read...

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ominous, sinister and deeply worrying that cases involving debt have been removed from Mr. Edmund Honohan. He challenged the ruthlessness and brutality of these banks and vulture funds in how they dealt with people in mortgage distress who were trying to engage with them, and called them out for their ruthlessness. This matter is related to what we are debating here and the way in...