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Other Questions: Home Loan Scheme (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two people on €40,000 would not qualify for the Minister's scheme. That is €80,000. It is over the threshold so they would not qualify. Two people just inside the threshold can borrow €288,000. Average house prices in Dublin are €350,000. I have just quoted what Hines is offering, which is two bedroom homes at €358,000 and three bedroom homes at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two people - a couple - earning €40,000 each can only borrow €312,000. I have just told the Minister about a LIHAF supported development in which two-bedroom units are being sold back at a discounted rate of €358,000, up to €442,000. They are not affordable for the average person who will be cleansed from the area. The local council only has plans to provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which is true.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From the bank of mum and dad.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revert to the original proposal with regard to LIHAF funded developments as set out in circular PL 10/2016 of 26 August 2016, which required an affordability dimension for each site such that a minimum of 40% of homes were to be affordable; his further plans to ensure that affordable is defined so that they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the Minister introduced the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, which is a subsidy to private developers to open certain sites, the initial circular indicated that we would get 40% of any LIHAF supported development in affordable housing and that affordable would mean, in Dublin, a price of no more than €300,000. Within a month of that announcement the Minister,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister always talks about social mix. In fact, his housing policy is one of social cleansing. In huge areas of Dublin his failure to secure adequate social and affordable housing on the developments taking place mean that people on low and middle incomes are being cleansed from, or driven out of, those areas due to the unaffordable housing. Cherrywood is a LIHAF supported...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish direct employment of construction workers by local authorities to ensure speedy delivery of secure homes for those in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4424/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to raise the income thresholds for eligibility for social housing; his further plans to review the way in which these thresholds are being implemented in local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4420/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is appropriate that those on the housing assistance payment HAP transfer list in local authorities are not counted as still having a housing need despite the insecurity of their tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4421/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he is planning to reduce the flow of families and individuals into homelessness as a result of evictions and mortgage repossessions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4422/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Lending (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on requests from the credit union movement to change a bank's (details supplied) regulations governing the percentage of credit union loans that can be given out as long-term loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4762/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether a register of interests should exist for judges, similar to that in place for politicians and that judges should be legally compelled to declare conflicts of interest, which may potentially arise in cases they are dealing with; if safeguards or guidelines exist in this area; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the new EU legislation requesting the Government to interpret guidelines for x-ray referral and its fears that it will be omitted from using and taking x-rays; his plans to introduce an amendment that would allow qualified chiropractors to be included...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are obliged to inform those seeking council accommodation of their position on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4749/18]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time do I have?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling its motion on the critical issue of affordable housing. We support the overall direction and thrust of its motion, but we have some additional points to make on what needs to be done with public land in terms of affordable housing. We also have what I would say are slightly more ambitious proposals about what needs to be done with regard to private...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 80:In page 48, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(2) Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new subsection after subsection (1A), inserted by the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010:“(1B) Prior to the planning authority giving its decision in respect of a planning application, the applicant shall...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not accept that SIPO's regulations around political donations and funding are sufficient, as good as the work of SIPO might be. This is specifically about planning corruption. This was at the heart of some of the worst corrupt practices in the political system - how it corrupted planning and rezoning decisions to make fortunes for people, where local communities suffered the...