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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well below target.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [8379/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Outside the count centre in Citywest on the day we waited for the results of the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, the Taoiseach and I had a brief conversation about the likely result. I suggested to him that one consequence of the result was that we needed to move forward to the complete separation of church and State and he replied that we would leave that conversation for another...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent or planned meetings with church leaders. [8378/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the debate later on the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, we will discuss the litany of failures in the area of health. However, the one I cannot understand and which the Government does not appear to wish to resolve given the casual indifference it is displaying is the series of strikes taking place in the national ambulance service. There was one last...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service division of his Department. [7980/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last night I spoke to Vera Twomey, a woman whose daughter, Ava, suffers from the extremely debilitating Dravet's syndrome. More than anyone in the country, Vera has brought to public notice the urgent need to provide access to medicinal cannabis for people with such conditions. Incredibly and despite the Taoiseach's promises to introduce a medicinal cannabis access programme, Vera still has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuses, excuses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not address the Deputy's arguments about holding the Bill hostage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Taoiseach's Minister of State and his Chairman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has nothing to do with Members from the Taoiseach's party or with his Ministers. Will the Taoiseach give us a break?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those Senators were not even there for the debate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the number is small, where the hell did this come from? I will tell the Minister where it came from. It came from a rotten prejudice that was expressed by Owen Keegan at the weekend in his disgraceful interview with The Sunday Business Post.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He said it publicly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He said homeless accommodation was attractive to people and was a magnet, an absolutely outrageous statement he made in public, an insult to people who are stuck in homelessness. This betrays a rotten attitude. If it is a small number, where did it come from? It is to divert attention away from the real problem. One year is enough punishment. I have met people who are faced with that one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Choice-based letting.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reports he is considering changing the rules in relation to offers of accommodation to social housing applicants which may result in an applicant being suspended from the list if they refuse two offers of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8178/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most unpalatable aspects of the shameful housing and homelessness crisis is the attempt by officials and by Government to blame the people who are the victims of the housing crisis. We saw an instance of that with Mr. Owen Keegan's comments at the weekend when he said that homeless accommodation was somehow "attractive" to people. Another aspect of this is the suggestion that has...

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]