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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [21101/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems indisputable that the biggest social and economic crisis facing this country is the housing crisis and the lack of social housing and affordable housing. I was at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government this morning where departmental officials gave us the latest figures. They show that there are 86,000 families on the housing list. It is, however,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our contributors from the local authorities and the Department. I thank Ms Mary Hurley for helping with a couple of emergency cases during the week that I raised at this committee last week. It was appreciated. I also thank Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which is at its wits' end, the same as most public representatives, with the housing emergency. The council must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one final point about the place finder service. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan was the Minister when the legislation establishing the housing assistance payment was introduced. We argued in the Dáil that HAP was a fantasy and a measure such as a place finder service was required, although we did not have a name for it then. We have been told a few times by the Minister that there was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are they new cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can someone answer the question? If a person is trying to secure a rented property under the HAP but cannot find anything, even with the uplift, and if his or her search can be verified by providing a long list of places that have been tried, what do we say to him or her?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reconsider contacting the UNHCR in Turkey on behalf of persons (details supplied) with a view to offering them resettlement here as per the cross party letter sent to his Department on 17 May 2018. [22639/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (23 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be assisted to renew their GNIB card in view of the circumstances. [22653/18]

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are out canvassing every day. There is no complacency.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (22 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the ongoing dispute between a school (details supplied) and a trust regarding the playing pitches attached to the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22458/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (22 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure there is no discrimination in the admissions policy to publicly funded schools; the timeframe in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22460/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Extra Curricular Activities (22 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined the successful campaign by students in a school (details supplied) to make the school plastics free; his plans to use this as a model for all schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22461/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to a sufferer of agoraphobia who cannot receive a house call from the mental health services or a general practitioner and who also suffers from severe anxiety and panic attacks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22267/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should put a call into the chief executive officer and get him on the telephone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Bureaucratic manipulation of figures to meet targets is a feature of Stalinist dictatorships and tin-pot regimes. That is what we saw with the re-categorisation of figures in March and we should desist from trying to meet targets through such manipulations. That also matters for the Opposition. I am fed up hearing that we have to get everybody out of hotels. I am aware of families that I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is always against Stalin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are Trotskyites, yes. We are against Stalin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He got an ice pick in the head for his opposition to Stalin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did not like bureaucratic manipulation.