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Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with President Abbas. [38831/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not about the Minister or the Taoiseach. It is not personal. It is about the failure of the Government to break from a disastrously failing policy that is wreaking havoc on the lives of tens of thousands of our citizens. It is personal for those people. Our feelings and our political differences are irrelevant compared with the hardship and suffering those people are experiencing....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will raise the issue of Sophia Daly. It is a case with which the Taoiseach is familiar. She is 12 years old and has cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis and scoliosis. She was diagnosed with scoliosis in 2013 and put on an urgent waiting list for surgery in April 2017. In August, 17 months later, she was taken off that list and is now not on any list even though the Minister claims only 20...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, will next meet. [37538/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It goes without saying that we cannot trust the Tory right - the Tory Brexiteers - in terms of the consequences of, and negotiations around, the British exit for obvious reasons. We have always said that we do not necessarily trust the EU to look after Irish interests on the issue of the Border if those negotiations do not go well but the Taoiseach has always said that we will not accept any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process involved in releasing funds and agreeing the proposal for 100% social and affordable housing on the Shanganagh Castle site in Shankill, County Dublin; the way in which the promised announcement of an affordable housing scheme relates to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38639/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of proposals for social housing from local authorities being processed by his Department by local authority, date of receipt of proposal, stage the proposal is at and expected date of sign-off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38640/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V's delivered in 2017, by local authority; the price paid by the local authority; the details of the lease agreements; the length of leases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38838/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this the local property tax, LPT, stuff?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from that and a point I made in the debate yesterday, according to Revenue's own figures, 96% of those who seek deferrals do so because their income is insufficient. I believe the income threshold is €15,000. The Minister of State can correct me on the figures but the vast majority - 96% - of those who seek deferrals do so on income grounds, that is, they cannot afford...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of information, does the Minister of State not know the number of those deductions that are as a result of non-compliance?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State know what I mean, that it is a mandatory deduction? Do we not know that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There you go.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, 96,000 is mandatory-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----so the vast majority of the 160,000 is the State saying it is taking it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When 46,000 or 48,000 - the Minister of State might confirm that figure - are seeking deferrals, 96% of whom are seeking those deferrals because their income is not sufficient to pay, is it not reasonable to deduce that if that percentage seeking deferrals are doing so because of their low income, that a very high proportion of those who are not complying and have it mandatorily taken from...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister of State comment on the 48,000 we know do not have sufficient income?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is my last question. One of the justifications for the tax at the time was that it was a sort of fair wealth tax. It certainly is not in the case of the 56,000 who seek deferrals because their income is less than either €15,000 as an individual or €25,000 as a couple. Is that not low income? At least in terms of that cohort, is that not fairly harsh?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has increased.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the facts, the Minister of State has indicated that the non-compliance rate has increased steadily for the last number of years, now standing at 97,000. Will he confirm that deferrals, 96% of which are based on insufficient income, have also increased? In other words, there are people whose income is insufficient to enable them to pay and, therefore, they are seeking deferrals? The...