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- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I always feel distinctly uncomfortable when we are discussing these issues in the House because they should not be discussed here. They should never have been discussed in here because our considerations, our agonising, our viewpoints, our debates and our considerations are being had not over our own lives but over other people's lives, other women's lives. I do not think we have now, or...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, it was agreed at the Business Committee that the committee member speaking slots, following the leaders' slots yesterday, would be solely and exclusively for the members of the committee. Following that, then other Members could speak. Deputy Micheál Martin just spoke in a committee slot. When other parties, such as Sinn Féin and ourselves, asked the...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the case.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Bernard, I want to register a protest.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree but it is also too serious a subject for people to play fast and loose with the discussion.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Typical.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true. It is not the Acting Chairman's fault or the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan's.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Employment Rights (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it will be ensured that a company that is in receipt of public contracts is vindicating fully the rights of workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2390/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts being made to ensure that the companies to which public contracts are awarded are protecting the rights of workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2389/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (18 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) has still not been decided upon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2707/18]
- Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With all due respect, I will acquaint the Minister of State with reality. There are 96,000 families who are waiting up to 15 years on housing lists because they cannot afford the prices in the market, either for rental or purchase. There are 8,000 people, including 3,000 children, in emergency accommodation. There are 70,000 people in mortgage arrears, many of whom face the possible...
- Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I see the reality.
- Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about how people can afford to buy or rent them.
- Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Since I was first elected to the House in 2011, I have been warning the Government that the failure to build council housing and the policy of selling off land and assets by NAMA, which could have been used for public and affordable housing, would generate a disastrous housing crisis. For the first few years, the Government completely dismissed that warning. Now that we have a housing...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Data (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites that have been entered in every city and council vacant sites register from 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2184/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the proposed provision of €25 million over 2018 and 2019 to unlock local authority owned lands specifically for affordable models such as co-operative schemes; the progress that has been made in developing models of affordable housing and co-operatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the advice which can be given to co-operative housing bodies such as an organisation (details supplied) that wishes to meet with local authorities and present proposals for a co-operative housing project in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area in view of the fact that as yet no process exists for such proposals; and if he...
- European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not rehearse the debate about PESCO again. As the Minister of State knows, we are against involvement because we believe it is the slippery slope towards involvement in a European army. The Minister of State and the Government dispute that but I will not get into that debate now. What exact commitments are we going to have to honour as a result of this? The Minister of State and...
- European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.