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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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: HAP is precarious. It costs a fortune. People who get HAP end up back in homeless hubs. From the point of view of people, it is not good. From the point of view of the public finances and a sustainable plan, it is going to be a disaster. In 2019, the Minister is proposing 16,000 new HAP tenancies as against only 6,000 council house builds. In 2020, he is planning 13,000 new HAP...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has to do that. I accept that. That is not my point.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The NRH provides incredibly important services in brain injury, spinal-cord injury, prosthetic and limb absence rehabilitation, as well as paediatric rehabilitation. The human consequences of not having these beds open are severe. Today, I spoke to Deputy Gino Kenny's constituent who contacted us about this issue. The individual’s daughter had a brain tumour and surgery in Temple...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt about the excellent work the NRH does. However, 12 beds were closed at the end of 2017. The hospital managed to get funding to get six of them reopened but then another six were closed because it could not get the paediatric consultant cover. If it is related, as discussed earlier, to the sort of apartheid new-entrant levels of pay for consultants as a result of austerity...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Gino Kenny is ill today so I am asking this question on his behalf. Six beds closed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire in August, meaning, scandalously, that 12 beds have closed in that hospital. The other six have been closed since the end of 2017 due to staff and other resource shortages. 5 o’clock In August, however, six paediatric inpatient...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the universities' analysis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing facile about my analysis of the funding of third level education. This analysis was provided by the Irish Universities Association. Its authors are academics so I think the Taoiseach should take them a bit more seriously rather than just trying to score political points. The analysis points out that we are spending a small fraction of what most other European countries are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met. [42044/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach that our public services are in bits. We all know about the public housing crisis, and we are aware of the dire situation in our public health service, but one crisis that is less remarked on but which is very severe is the crisis in third level education. That crisis was not in any way addressed or acknowledged in the Government's recent budget. The Taoiseach may...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not answered my question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will not revoke it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In its programme for Government, the Government promised a humanitarian response to asylum seekers, committed to making Ireland a safe haven for those fleeing from violence, and said it would promote the integration of migrants in this country. The deportation order for Shepherd Machaya is anything but compassionate. He has lived nine years in direct provision, a pretty awful system, but he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the respite care services available for parents and guardians of children with intellectual disabilities in CHO area 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43451/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for ensuring access to respite for parents of children and adults with intellectual disabilities attached to a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43450/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 440. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant withdrawn in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations in place for fishermen trawling and-or dredging for mussel seeds on the foreshore, off the coast and in areas of special conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43236/18]