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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing is happening in my area. I mentioned four other sites around Dublin where nothing is happening on public land. Do not tell me that is because I do not want to see success. I can see that nothing is happening in Shanganagh, in Cherrywood, on the Oscar Traynor Road site, in Clonburris or in St. Michael's Estate. We can go through the list. What the Minister just said about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give a commitment, in view of the housing emergency and the abundant availability of public land in the State, to initiate an emergency building programme of public and affordable housing on public land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27122/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not time to admit that Rebuilding Ireland is failing disastrously? Wexford and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councils which are not controlled by the left have both passed motions to the effect that Rebuilding Ireland is failing. The reliance on the private sector has been exposed. The Minister's figures for private sector completions are not accurate. There is far less coming...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there is an issue with land hoarding and property speculation that is having a negative impact on the delivery of public and affordable housing; his plans to deal with the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26885/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department has not rolled out an affordable housing scheme; his views on the impact this has had on the delivery of public housing on public land; his plans to introduce an affordable housing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26886/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancies will be redefined in a way that acknowledges that these tenancies are not the same as local authority tenancies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26888/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Economic and Social Council (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had engagement with the National Economic and Social Council since the publication of its report Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland’s Broken System. [22710/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Economic and Social Council (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recently published NESC report entitled Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland's Broken System. [25389/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the availability of emergency accommodation, in particular the emergency accommodation that can cater for larger families that are increasingly not accepted by hotels and bed and breakfasts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26889/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason all bids for local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, building must demonstrate high levels of affordability (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26887/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should include GPs.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Global Footprint Initiative (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome expanding diplomatic trade and cultural links with countries around the world. Undoubtedly, that is a good thing to do in an increasingly globalised world, especially in a world where people like Donald Trump are trying to dig people back into nasty little nationalist trenches. In tandem with those links, our reputation is important. I heard the discussion earlier about Trump...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No answer to the question on cannabis is par for the course.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach if he talked to Prime Minister Trudeau about it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach may have noted that Prime Minister Trudeau's Canada has today decriminalised cannabis and that follows the fact that in Canada, cannabis for medicinal use was previously decriminalised. In light of the Taoiseach's great admiration for Canada and all things Canadian, might that prompt him to stop trying to sabotage Deputy Gino Kenny's medicinal cannabis Bill which is being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is, it is relevant to the discussions that were had with Prime Minister Trudeau and whether we might learn something from Canada in its attitude towards the issue of cannabis and specifically medicinal cannabis given that there are thousands of people out there suffering from pain and other conditions who could benefit from it. His Government has cynically tried to bury that Bill rather...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There seems to be general agreement that we need more expenditure on housing, including affordable housing and public housing, and infrastructure. While I agree with that - I do not see how anyone could disagree - I do not understand, based on the submissions made by ISME and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, where we will get the money for this expenditure. The witnesses argue for reductions...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to ask all the witnesses what they think. It seems we have a problem or we could be reaching the point at which we have a serious problem with labour shortages in a number of key areas. I would like to hear what the witnesses think about this. I would have thought that one thing we absolutely must support - they probably agree with this - is the provision of affordable...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses from TASC and Social Justice Ireland for their contributions and their good work. I agree completely on the revenue-raising exercises they are talking about. It might be worth elaborating on the logic of how they came to their proposals. It is not talked about much by the Government or the main Opposition party or even some of the think tanks. They talk about...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has to be a full audit because the State has failed potentially thousands of people whose identities and records were, in some cases, falsified. In other cases we do not know if they were. That can have very serious implications at so many different levels for the people affected in terms of their right to their identities, medical histories and heritages. There is simply no...