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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.

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 want to ask one question. I accept some of what the Minister is saying, although the very precarious situation in Dún Laoghaire, because of the rents, is going to be true as well on a whole range of other fronts because everything is just so much higher. Is it not misleading to take people off the list when they are in HAP? I accept some HAP tenancies work. The Minister might argue...

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: -----way the Minister describes it, it is not a permanent housing solution.

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: If they can afford and arrange it.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to invite a delegation from the Parliament in Gaza to meet with an all party delegation in Dáil Éireann. [3495/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to arrange an all-party delegation to visit the Parliament in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3494/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has expressed his views publically or to the United States administration with regard to President Trump's recent derogatory remarks regarding African and Caribbean countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3493/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the issue of human rights on his official visit to China and Hong Kong for St Patrick's Day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3497/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the minimum criteria for recruitment into the Army; the reason a person (details supplied) did not meet the minimum criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3741/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 20 September 2017, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3739/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The collapse of Carillion calls into question not just the wisdom of public private partnerships, PPPs, in terms of the five schools affected and the Carlow Institute of Further Education. It also gives rise to question regard a range of commitments in the area of school-building, house-building, social housing in particular and capital infrastructure projects as to whether the PPP model is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is right. The Labour Party, when in government, signed off on the contracts for these schools.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a serious debate about the wisdom of using PPPs to deliver housing, schools and vital infrastructure-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because, as we have seen with McNamara Construction and with the schools in question, PPPs are an accident waiting to happen.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is going to manage the schools? This is not just about construction.