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Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (12 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 31 January 2017, the position regarding the scheme eight months later; when this scheme will be available to members of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43273/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is right there.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy, with 15 minutes each.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, the courtesy of listening to the entirety of his speech yesterday. I also did the Taoiseach the courtesy of sitting here and listening to the entirety of his speech here this morning. On neither occasion did the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach do us the courtesy of being in the House to listen to the responses. I would say that this is...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I shall hear the Minister of State's response and I shall do her the courtesy of listening. I have spoken at length about housing in my last couple of interventions in the budget. I will not repeat the points except to say I really wish the Government would wake up to the new development that is happening. We do not even have hotel accommodation for families who are homeless, never mind...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not include us in that.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What?

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except us.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true. Look at Cherrywood.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We sold land to Hines and the average house price sought there is now €500,000.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For other people to build, for the market.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is nonsense. Public housing is needed.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Families cannot even find a place in a hotel.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The budget announcements made by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, yesterday on the issue of the emergency in housing and homelessness were nothing more than a hoax and a very cynical sleight of hand that involves rehashing commitments on social housing that were made long in advance of the budget and offering absolutely nothing to the thousands of families affected by the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ring the alarm bells for the Taoiseach. People cannot even get into hotels now. 12 o’clock Families cannot get a family hub or emergency accommodation. They cannot even get a hotel now because when they ring the hotels they are told the hotels already have a full complement of Dublin City Council-approved homeless families. Not only has the Government not got them out...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the planned transfer of ownership of Dún Laoghaire harbour to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42168/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the routes tendered to a company (details supplied) will be affected by this transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42137/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (11 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has reviewed the evidence linking diesel exhaust fumes to certain cancers; his plans to ban this type of fuel in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43080/17]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Intangible Assets (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very glad to have a chance to speak on this motion because it reveals and confirms the hidden secret of the Irish economic story that only the socialist left have been talking about for the past five years and which remained hidden in much of the budget debate because there was a deliberate attempt to narrow the debate on what was possible in the budget to a debate on fiscal space and...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have traditionally opposed the increase in the duty on cigarettes. I wish to stress that this is not because we do not think it is important to reduce the level of smoking, because that is extremely important, but because we remain to be convinced that price increases are the major reason there is some reduction in the smoking level. They have some impact but I do not believe they are...