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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 544. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of a burial ground for an institution (details supplied); and if there are records of those that died while resident in that institution. [41270/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations on the allocation of council houses on medical grounds; the regulations on the prioritisation of persons with disabilities and those with medical issues that are not considered to be disabilities for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41377/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On LIHAF, in Cherrywood, the Minister gave a figure of, I think, 23,000 houses for €226 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how the Minister can give us accurate figures when, in Cherrywood, we do not know how much we are going to get for LIHAF funding. The council tells us that. Alarmingly, it could be as low as 75 units or, if it is spread across, it could be a €75,000 discount on average prices which are about €450,000. That is not affordable and it is no use. It is not a serious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The councils should be doing it. Will the Minister do anything about the thresholds for eligibility for social housing? They must be increased. The current situation is not fair because people who are marginally over the eligibility criteria are being thrown off the list. On the rental situation and the loopholes that are being exploited for the purpose of evictions, how soon will we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are two instances at present whereby vulture funds are trying to evict people using these loopholes. Will the Minister issue instructions to the RTB not to allow those evictions to go ahead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister to push-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not high enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, after voting down our proposals in July for the whole project to be social.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was not realistic about building council property on council land? Tell me what was unrealistic about it, Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish. That is absolute rubbish

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The numbers. It will wash its own face over the long term, as the Minister well knows, just as all council housing does. This is just playing politics while we have a disastrous situation in Dún Laoghaire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Playing politics. That is what this is. This is too serious for games.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should abandon PPPs on public property. It is obvious that this approach takes longer because, rather than a council doing it itself or getting a contractor in to do it, public private partnership involves having to go through a tendering process, etc. That is why we are getting delays. We should stop. Another reason we get messes is because developers want to make money from PPPs....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that, by the way. I will say that.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They might have been subsidised prices here but they would have been charging us for the water. That is what people recognised. Setting aside all the disingenuous propaganda from the Government about the environmental reasons for bringing in water charges, people knew, and they were right, that the real agenda was to put a price tag on this in order that, at some point, someone could...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would never do that, would they?

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should commence our contribution by taking a drink of water because the people who wanted to bring in water charges - Fianna Fáil first and then Fine Gael - wanted to put a price tag on this glass of water. In fact, there has been a running joke with the ushers here. Every time we have asked for a glass of water over the past four years, they have said, "Have a glass now before they...