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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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify matters (details supplied) in relation to the review of State pension (contributory) pensioners on post-2012 rate bands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43220/18]

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the Committee on Budgetary Oversight secretariat and the Parliamentary Budget Office for their great work on all of this and the report that was produced in May, in particular the work they have done in trying to advance the cause of equality budgeting and gender budgeting. I commend the Chairman and my fellow committee members for their work. I thank all of the people who...

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the private conversations can end now. It is a bit outrageous, to be honest.

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that. Fair play to him. What we just saw was extremely disrespectful. Equality is good for our society. Obviously, gender equality is critical in so far as 50% of the world's population suffer systematic discrimination and oppression and are disproportionately impacted by poverty, war and all of the injustices and inequalities that exist in...