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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...

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...

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