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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Six years of failed and flawed policies by a Fine Gael and Labour Party Government and, more recently, a Fine Gael, Independent and Independent Alliance Government have left us with a national housing and homelessness emergency. I want to know more about the references the Taoiseach belatedly made - six years too late - to the possibility of NAMA, instead of flogging land and property as it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee D (Infrastructure) will next meet. [39619/17]
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Ceann Comhairle want me to read it out?
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have it.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a genuine point of order.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, which is a genuine question to the Ceann Comhairle, if we vote for this motion, what standing does it have?
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One person has got it.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Professor David Finn a scientist?
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In December of last year, this House made a unanimous decision to send the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill of Deputy Gino Kenny to Committee Stage. Shamefully and disgracefully, a joint health committee, comprising members from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Labour Party, the Rural Independent Group and some other Independents, has ignored the opinion and advice...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Murphy and Dr. Hearne for a great report and for highlighting a number of key issues facing us with this housing emergency. I have a few questions on different areas that the report touches on. I agree with them that ultimately we need to build social housing. If we do not do that, everything else will not work and is not sustainable in the long term. What annual output do we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Dublin Regional Homless Executive (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the witnesses tell me how many people have joined the housing list over the past three years? What figures are available for same? How many new applications for housing have been made nationally? What is the pace of the new applications? Such information has not been taken into account. Anecdotally, in Dún Laoghaire, I can say that there are more applications than planned...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On what page is that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. McDonnell of the Nevin Economic Research Institute. I welcome the focus on increased investment in child care, education, research and development and infrastructure. I welcome the general thrust of what Dr. McDonnell has said. He said that there is a case for more taxes. Could he be more specific about what he is proposing? Would he agree that the amount of fiscal space is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that at 1%?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the easy life. NERI wants the money but we have to vote for unpopular Bills.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I could make a comment there.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Risk Assessments (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct insurance companies to reassess the risk of flooding based on the Office of Public Works flood risk maps for the area of Abberley, Killiney, County Dublin and not on outdated flood risk information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39558/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Regulation (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that core credit unions have taken a vote to expel members who have less than €10 in their account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39719/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost in 2018 for abolishing all third level fees, both capitation and tuition, for under graduate and post graduate. [39791/17]