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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the Irish troops in Lebanon. [1833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Issues (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria he plans to establish regarding affordability in HBFI funded developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52267/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of overtopping the Office of Public Works has carried out along the coastline; the amount of overtopping that has been carried out on the east coast; his plans for overtopping in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area; his further plans for Bullock harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3965/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the way in which a person is dealt with by her Department in circumstances in which a service user engaged in a JobBridge scheme leaves the scheme early due to non-compliance with employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4352/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person selected for a JobBridge scheme has the same rights under employment law as other employees; if that person is entitled to a P45 if their employment is not continued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4381/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Assist Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a company engaged in employing a person through the JobBridge scheme is vetted to ensure it complies with employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4382/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Customer Charters (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure in her Department for investigating complaints by service users; the timeframe within which it must respond to a person that makes a complaint; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4353/18]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we not get some answers?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we have a little flexibility?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was incorporeal.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We agree.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to hear these words of wisdom.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been asking for this debate since it was originally scheduled that the regulations be disposed of by the House without debate. I will not oppose these measures. Indeed, I do not know if we have the power to do so.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an overriding need to get empty units back into use. I do not have a problem with the Irish Water side of things. On change of use, the overriding imperative is to get over-the-shop units into use. There are many such units in Dún Laoghaire. In fact, there are dozens of them and they could be used to provide much-needed accommodation. I appreciate the fact that officials...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister needs to get real here. One has to be earning €75,000 to borrow €300,000, and houses cannot be bought in huge swathes of Dublin, as I have just pointed out, for that price. What about the vast majority of people who do not have €75,000 and who, in any event, even if they did have it, almost certainly could not find a house in Dublin for that price? The...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about south Dublin, not the whole of Dublin.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Tánaiste shed any light on the bizarre comments made by the Taoiseach about how young working people are supposed to raise deposits and secure an affordable home to purchase? It is not an exaggeration to say that vast numbers of people are puzzled and infuriated about the Taoiseach's advice to go to the bank of mum and dad to deal with the impossible task of coming up with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Department for getting on to me because I raised questions about the planning changes and the statutory instrument. I appreciate the call I got from the Department to go through it with me but I still requested that the Business Committee schedule a debate because the issues are important. I appreciate it agreed to that debate which will take place today. I will leave that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the committee get this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I have not.