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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...

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]