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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----by making it clear that the question of the Border was not up for negotiation. The Taoiseach's hand and ours would be strengthened if we were to make it clear that the Irish people would get to vote on any final deal if it were in any way ambiguous or ambivalent on the question of the Border, now or in the future. That would be pure democracy as far as I am concerned, but the people of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [45634/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know any re-imposition of a physical border between the North and South would be a disaster and we are all united in insisting that under no circumstances or in whatever agreement is reached should there be any question of a hard border. We should make it clear to Britain and the European Union that we will not in any way facilitate this, co-operate or play any part in the erection of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be very quick. I apologise to the Minister as I will have to run in order to ask a parliamentary question so I may not be here for his reply. However, I will look at the transcript afterwards. I want to deal with the issue of accountability and the extent of the Department's interest in warnings that were given. Problems might have been apparent to the Department much sooner....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. The Department and the Minister did not want to know. If that is true that warnings had been given that this was happening yet nobody acted to counteract it because it would spoil the good news story in respect of building schools, heads will have to roll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just passed on a report from building workers.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate the pressure in view of severe overcrowding on public transport in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45655/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether Ireland should dramatically reduce public transport fares to encourage its use in view of the urgent necessity to address climate change and CO2 emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45656/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when calculating deductions for means testing the housing adaption grant for persons with disabilities, if the full amount of carer's allowance will be deducted in addition to as a further €5,000 in cases in which the person to which the grant application relates is being cared for by a relative on a full-time basis;...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 2011, several building workers took the trouble to join the Labour Party, specifically the branch of former Deputy Ruairí Quinn. For the next three or four years, they tried to impress on him the problems in the school buildings programme and, specifically, companies such as Western Building Systems. The workers described it as the "Wild West" and stated that some people on sites...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Government going to do to bring forward a Bill on building controls and addressing the issue of bogus self-employment on building sites, which is directly connected------

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the catastrophe we are now facing in schools, as well as hospitals such as Beaumont and Temple Street hospitals?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not by Western Building Systems.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It built the Beaumont Hospital extension and the Temple Street hospital extension.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was with Western Building Systems.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are talking about the likes of Lone Star, Kennedy Wilson, Cerberus, all these people with whom the Minister's Department, under the management of Deputy Noonan, had 65 meetings in 2013. They swooped in and bought huge amounts of land and property. They will, if I understand this correctly, continue to benefit from section 110 tax relief, which means that if they maintain their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The 2017 figure is misleading because we are talking about the window between about 2012 and the point at which the change was made in 2016. It was in this period that NAMA flogged off most of its land and assets, about €40 billion worth. It was not the little accidental landlord buying the stuff from NAMA; it was Kennedy Wilson, Cerberus, Lone Star and all these big boys. They...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the macroeconomic impact of the escalating housing crisis and the potential drain on the public finances of Rebuilding Ireland's heavy reliance on the private property sector to deliver social housing in view of the rapidly inflating cost of rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44230/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The main path to emergency accommodation and homelessness, in which we see a shocking further increase today, is from the private rented sector. People are being made homeless by the private rented sector. From a macroeconomic point of view, never mind the humanitarian and social point of view, why is 80% of the housing plan dependent on the private rented sector? It is madness - social...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have no choice but to do everything we can to get people into accommodation other than hotels, hubs or the streets. Taken as a whole, 80% of Rebuilding Ireland is dependent on HAP, RAS and leasing and that is the problem. We do not know how much it will cost but some estimates are for between €20 billion and €30 billion in current expenditure over a 30-year period, for...