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Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a budget of miserable crumbs which will do nothing to solve the most urgent social crises we face in this country - the disaster of housing and homelessness and the chaos in our public health system. This budget will do absolutely nothing to deal with the gaping, growing, obscene inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income in our society. One of the Minister, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Assessments (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to basing property tax on income for pensioners similar to the French system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42815/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance the avenue of appeal open to persons that have applied to the State Claims Agency and have had their claim turned down.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance if studies have been carried out to investigate the impact of the help-to-buy scheme on house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42601/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether PeoplePoint has sufficient resources to process all the incoming information; the number of persons in the Civil Service waiting on salary adjustments; the length of time they are waiting; if this delay is in accordance with the Payment of Wages Act 1991; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Superannuation Schemes (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is a breach of the Employment Equality Acts in relation to terms and conditions of employment on the ground of disability to oblige disabled civil servants to be members of the 1984 Civil Service (Spouses and Children's) Superannuation Scheme in view of the 2002 IPA report on the employment and career progression of civil...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the objectives of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; the actions that will be taken as a result of the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42604/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of the records for St. Patrick's mother and baby home, Navan Road, of births, deaths, procedural matters, State involvement and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42605/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of the burial of the babies who died at St. Patrick's mother and baby home, Navan Road; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42606/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Management (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the corporate policy groups and strategic policy committees guidelines for the establishment and operation issued by his Department in June 2014 (details supplied) intended to expand the role, function and responsibilities of corporate policy groups beyond policy matters (details supplied); if the corporate policy group...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the body responsible for ensuring that disability access and facilities are maintained to suitable standards in retail buildings in which these facilities exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42942/17]

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Political debate around the dinner table with another uncle who was involved in Fianna Fáil-----

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and another uncle was involved in the Labour Party in Dalkey-----

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These names were all familiar - the Cosgrave name, Jack Lynch and so on. There was intense political discussion and perhaps some of that rubbed off on me-----

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----although I am sure it was in a way that none of them would have particularly approved of. Anybody who lives in Dún Laoghaire has a passionate love for the area, which I believe Liam Cosgrave shared. Notwithstanding our very strong political differences on other things, anybody who has had the privilege to represent Dún Laoghaire would share that. I would not adhere to...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also extend my sympathies and condolences to Liam Cosgrave's children, to all his extended family and to the Fine Gael Party. Obviously, I did not know Liam Cosgrave personally and his period of political activity predates my own but as somebody who has lived all my life in Dún Laoghaire, one could not but be familiar with his name and indeed the Cosgrave family name, which, for as...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fact that, through the CSO, we have identified 180,000 empty residential units as well as perhaps over 25,000 above shop units, which could potentially be available for residential property, indicates the chronic failure of public policy in the face of an enormous housing and homelessness emergency. In so far as this Bill attempts to address one aspect of that, I welcome it and commend...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Negotiations (4 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not answered the question in so far as it applies to Ireland and this State's ability to meet its targets, to take climate change seriously and do something about it. Does the Minister accept that we are failing disastrously? Carbon emissions are increasing. They have increased from 56 million tonnes of carbon during the 1990s to almost 60 million tonnes of carbon dioxide...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Negotiations (4 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister mentioned a number of things. Take the area of forestry. We are all aware of the carbon sink but I am not aware of any attempt to ramp that up. There has been talk about it but nothing has been done. There will be no increase in the current levels of investment or changes in policy. Why is it that we do not slash public transport fares? If we want to get people out of cars,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Negotiations (4 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Speaking of Ardnacrusha, that was a moment when the State made a radical decision which worked to build a hydro-electric energy station. Will the Minister be attending the Bonn climate conference and will he have to admit there that on the critical question of climate change, the Government is failing to take the kind of radical action necessary to avoid massive fines for the State's failure...