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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.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will follow up on my statement and the questions about Gaza with which I concluded. Jerusalem was discussed at the Council meeting, but I would like a response on the issue of Gaza. I do not know whether the Minister of State can tell us much about what the Minister, Deputy Coveney, did there last week. He met some people, but they were linked to one faction, namely, the Ramallah-based...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to raise the issue of Palestine. I echo the comments about Ahed Tamimi and the horrendous treatment of a child and her mother protesting against the illegal and immoral occupation of Palestinian territory in defiance of any notion of a two-state solution or international law and yet we continue to allow Israel to effectively act with impunity. I want to talk about Gaza, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where will we get the workers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have enough working in construction. That is why we cannot build enough houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Dialogue (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The woeful lack of effective, joined-up action on the housing crisis has prompted civil society to take the sort of joined-up action that is necessary. That will be made manifest on 7 April when trade unionists, civil society groups, homeless groups, construction workers and all those affected by the housing crisis - these are the same people who can offer solutions to the crisis - will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any hopes I had that 2018 would see an improvement in the dire housing situation were dashed when a flood of people in dire circumstances attended my clinics over the first couple of weeks of the new year. I suggest that the report produced yesterday by the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, which claims successes in exceeding targets in the delivery of social housing is misleading propaganda....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government could change the number of contributions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [1831/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief, because I have to speak in the House. I am against the property tax. I never saw the rationale for it. I am of the view that it is a regressive tax. I do not expect the witness to agree with me on that. For the record, facts are important. At the time the property tax was first introduced, there were a number of justifications for it. I have not checked the records,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is €61.7 million.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will be part of the review.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry for being rude but I have to run across here.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been going for three decades. Is the Taoiseach kidding?

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are aware of that.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: None of that prevents a referendum being held in May.