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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.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same subject, the Taoiseach has stated his desire which we share that the referendum take place in May. A significant concern we have which is partially expressed by Deputy Bríd Smith's concerns about the time the various debates could take to complete relates to whether it will happen and that we will actually have the referendum in May. I do not see in anything the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which persons (details supplied) were exempted from the stipulations in section 22 of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 for senior public officials when they left office to join private public relations firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54650/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the threats or blocks to the status of British citizens living and working here in view of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will make up the shortfall in funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) by the HSE lottery grant scheme in 2017 which will prevent it from implementing projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54655/17]