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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point I made is that the private rented sector is what is driving people into homelessness. The Minister says we are getting something back but we are getting back social housing that is not social housing. It is precarious and the landlord can pull out at any time. There is nothing in the HAP arrangement, which is the bulk of Rebuilding Ireland, that prevents landlords from pulling...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is acceptable in view of the dramatic inflation of the property market, particularly in relation to rapidly rising rents and property values, that corporate landlords and property investors should continue to avail of tax reliefs such as section 110 and that he is unable to ascertain the amount of tax revenue that is forgone through...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will see that I am on the theme of housing, and the Minister's connection to it, with all my questions of both yesterday and today. The other side of the coin in regard to this housing and homelessness crisis is the lesser known fact that vast amounts of money are being made by corporate landlords and property speculators who are also availing of tax reliefs. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make adjustments to section 481 film tax relief particularly in view of recent allegations of possible abuses of this relief and concerns that the relief is not generating the quality employment in the film industry that is required under the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to NAMA and the contribution it could make to delivering public and affordable housing in view of the housing emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Regulation (25 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason commercial drivers such as taxi drivers are unable to buy motor insurance from insurance companies based in other EU states in view of the free movement of goods and services across the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44229/18]

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me, I am a bit croaky. I am smothered with a cold.

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I took a lot of Lemsip.

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made a special effort to be here because I feel the Finance Bill deserves that attention even if it is not always given the attention it deserves. The Bill gives effect to many elements of the budget and very significant things often happen in the detail of the Bill which have real consequences for our society. However, because of the nature of those, particularly taxation measures, being...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach needs to make it clear to Theresa May, as I have said on a number of occasions, that under no circumstances will any Irish Government in any way facilitate or support the erection of a border on this island. The Taoiseach, and others, assume that Europe can be trusted absolutely. It needs to be made absolutely clear that preventing a North-South border is more important than...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made that point to the Taoiseach in December 2017.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So am I.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagement with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [42045/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) last met. [43454/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Western Business Systems, I raised this issue in the House in September 2017 and specifically asked, in light of fire defects in schools, the likelihood of such defects being more widespread, as well as raising the fact that a college of further education built by Western Building Systems in Whitehall has been sitting empty for the past five or six years, which was not mentioned in the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know a bit more about the conversation on migration. The issue of Brexit and our concerns are extremely important to us but there is a bigger picture going on in Europe and around the world at present, as Deputy Haughey alluded to. This is the very dangerous rise of the far right, xenophobia and racism that finds its scapegoat in desperate migrants seeking to flee awful situations...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has assessed the impact on State finances of the reliance of Rebuilding Ireland on private tenancies to deliver social housing in view of the report on current and capital expenditure on social housing delivery mechanisms of July 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43923/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find the failure of the Government's social housing policy infuriating for many reasons. The targets are never met, the human misery continues and the plan is fundamentally flawed in its reliance on the private sector. Aside from all of that, has the Minister actually looked at the insane cost if the Rebuilding Ireland policy were actually to work? Some 137,000 units that the Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (24 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When we trawl through the jargon, the paper to which I referred, produced by the Minister's Department, shows that 97,000 of the social housing units the Government plans to provide between now and 2021 will be provided by the private sector. Only 33,000 units will be directly built. The Department's paper actually states that in cities such as Dublin, that is going to blow a black hole in...