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Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (9 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question the people in Gaza, who are desperate, are asking relates to what they are supposed to do. How often have Palestinians been condemned for armed or military responses? One can say that they were right or that they were wrong but in this case, the people of Gaza have stated they would march with their hands in the air, unarmed, behind banners of Martin Luther King and Mahatma...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (9 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: President Donald Trump is very dangerously banging the drums of war against Iran, supported enthusiastically by Saudi Arabia, a nasty little dictatorship, and Israel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (9 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A big dictatorship, and Israel. He is seeking to isolate Iran, impose sanctions and escalate a dangerous conflict in the Middle East. Many countries which are signatories of the nuclear deal with Iran are, rightly, rejecting what President Trump is saying and contending that the deal should be maintained. It is important in this context for Ireland to nail its colours to the mast on this....

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is my time reduced because I am giving two minutes-----

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought I had seven.

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Drip, drip, drip go the revelations adding to the scandal around the cervical smear issue, which gives us a glimpse into the dysfunction in the HSE that needs to be radically addressed. This motion deals with all aspects of this problem and proposes Sláintecare and moving towards a single-tier universal health service as the answer. I agree with that and support the motion but I really...

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is now because people are screaming for him to turn up but we were informed earlier today that he was not going to turn up. As a result of a question I asked today in the exchange with the State Claims Agency we finally revealed something that we could not drag out of the Minister, the Taoiseach or the HSE for the past week. I asked if there was a difference between the accuracy and the...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to address the difficulty of housing applicants in finding private rented accommodation within the HAP or homeless HAP limits in many parts of Dublin and the refusal of local authorities to provide increases in these limits in line with actual rents in these areas; and if he will make a statement...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not working in my area. Rents are so far ahead of the limits that if one is told to get HAP, one might as well pack one's bags for the hub, albeit there is a queue for that as well. The Minister must answer the question for the people who come to me who have rung 50 places, which is no exaggeration. I tell people now to take note of the number of places they have called. They may...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are being refused.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister of State is telling me that he can fix the case I mentioned, I will be very happy. I am telling the Minister of State that a person who did some overtime was taken off the list, and then after appealing and fighting the decision the family was told the appeal was not going to be accepted but they could reapply. Once that was done, the family lost their ten years on the list...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am telling the Minister that it is the case

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State doubting that it could happen?

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review and increase the income limits for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19869/18]

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are these questions grouped?

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot have any further delay on this. It is compounding the already multiple injustices of the current housing crisis. Every single week, working people come into my office - I am sure it is happening everywhere else - who are being cut off housing lists. They may have been on those lists for ten years or 15 years. Then they are just gone because they do a bit of overtime or get a...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely true.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is they do not know by whom they are employed.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, announced over the weekend that she intended to launch a campaign on the issue of bogus self-employment. That is welcome, although is somewhat late in the day, given that people have been protesting about this issue for years. Will the Minister's campaign include other forms of precarious and insecure...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we think those matters, the plan of action set out by the Government, should be discussed and scrutinised in this House. We are certainly not happy with it. I want to register that last week in the all-party Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health we asked Mr. Tony O'Brien direct questions about figures on the accuracy and detection of smear tests in the different labs. It...