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Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said she seems to be a decent individual. What I cannot judge or what I find difficult to explain, and I do not know why the Minister is shaking his head, is how all this information could be in her Department and we are told it was not discussed. We are told that people forgot about it. It was so unimportant or registered so little at the time that people just forgot about it. It was...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was much lamenting of the fate of the Tánaiste yesterday on the Government side of the House. Do not get me wrong - I have no axe to grind with her personally, but the person who has most to lament in this sorry saga is Sergeant Maurice McCabe who first had the bravery to make a complaint in 2006 about malpractice in An Garda Síochána. It is now 2017 and we still have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our shocking failure to reduce CO2 emissions has been further exposed by the EPA's report. Is the Taoiseach willing to take the radical action necessary and end the special pleading for our pathetic performance? Both Deputy Bríd Smith and Deputy Eamon Ryan this week and last week submitted Bills proposing a decision to grant no more licences for the exploration of oil and gas. If we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it will be better than the Northern scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I was going to a summit on social issues in Europe I would certainly make the point, and I hope the Taoiseach did this, that the biggest social crisis facing this country is housing and homelessness and that it is at appalling emergency levels. A little known fact, but one noted by Mercy Law Resource Centre among others, is that, incredibly, Ireland opted out of the right to housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Gothenburg. [50597/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach may have received an email from Peter McVerry today pointing out that seven individuals have died sleeping rough in the past 12 weeks, which is both unprecedented and shameful. There is the shocking fact that 3,000 children are in emergency accommodation. Peter McVerry is asking for very specific things to respond to this. Will the Taoiseach agree to what he is asking for?...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [50209/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, following the resignation of the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach referred to the Department of Justice and Equality as dysfunctional. We are all aware of the issues to be examined by the disclosures tribunal, which we will discuss this evening. The Taoiseach promised an external review of all the matters that have arisen in recent weeks. Given those very strong statements, will he...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The O'Sullivan report suggested there will be no accountability from those in top Garda management and no disciplinary action imposed on them. These are the people who were condemned in the report for the incredible level of malpractice within the force. The public does not accept a level of dysfunctionality that results in 2 million false breath tests and 15,000 wrongful convictions. We...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will this issue be part of the sweep of justice-related matters the Taoiseach has promised will take place?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the report on the effect of 2012 changes to the calculation of pensions on women in particular will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50587/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing delivered under each of the categories (details supplied) by local authority, in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing targets committed to in Rebuilding Ireland under each of the categories (details supplied), by local authority for each of the years over the next five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51243/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Short questions

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still do not understand what is the independent information that might be put out. Over the past few days, everybody wanted to know what information was in the possession of the Government about the extent of knowledge within the Department of Justice and Equality and the former Minister about the campaign against Maurice McCabe. Is it the Taoiseach's decision when we find out what he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, I do not understand why the Taoiseach needs this strategic communications unit for any purpose other than political propaganda. He has the Government Information Service. Why does he need this? How will he prevent the blurring of the lines in terms of the Taoiseach just getting out a political message that is convenient for him as against information? We have Ministers who are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic communications unit and its role in Government information campaigns; and the way in which it works in relation to the Government Information Service. [50208/17]

Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not; I objected to it.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the establishment trying to put the lid back on the can of worms that has been opened. It is quite extraordinary. It was perfectly okay for the former Tánaiste to come to the House last week and for us to ask questions about these matters. There was no problem with the Charleton tribunal, although there had been some suggestions previous to that, mainly from the Government,...