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Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure a place finder team is established in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33185/17]

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have told the Minister on several occasions that the housing assistance payment, HAP, which forms approximately three quarters of the delivery of social housing that the Government is hoping to achieve between now and 2021 is a fantasy and a mirage which will not materialise. It is a nightmare for people to try to find HAP tenancies. I have asked the Minister and tabled parliamentary...

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was close though.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that it is the second last day of term before the summer recess, People Before Profit and Solidarity will not stand in the way of legislation that might do anything to facilitate the continued provision of desperately needed housing to increase the famous supply we all know to be necessary to deal with the catastrophic - I do not think that is an exaggeration - housing and homelessness...

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have already brought shame on this State and shredded our tradition of military neutrality by facilitating 2 million US troops in going through Shannon Airport to conduct a disastrous war that led to more than 1 million deaths in Iraq, millions of people being displaced and the disastrous crisis we now see in Syria. Now the Government wants to compound the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on that committee.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to respond briefly. For the record, it is not an all-party committee. The party and group that put forward this Bill is not represented on the committee. I think there has been an absolutely outrageous sabotage of this Bill for the most spurious of reasons. Medical evidence from doctors, the Irish Medical Organisation, Professor Mike Barnes, Professor David Finn and many...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will finish on this point. The procedural clarification given by the Ceann Comhairle was necessary because the message that went out from the Chairman of the committee and other members of the committee was to the effect that they had a right to stop this Bill from proceeding to Committee Stage. They do not have that right. Only the Dáil has that right. In fact, Standing Order 141...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was it unanimous?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was it unanimous?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was sabotage.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is made, a Cheann Comhairle.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I asked to come in on a similar issue to Deputy Gino Kenny. The Ceann Comhairle did not allow it but he then let several other people do exactly that on other issues.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not, actually.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not. I am making a point of order. This is the last day of the Dáil.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the last chance we will have to question what is on the Dáil schedule.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A report has been produced about Deputy Gino Kenny's medicinal cannabis Bill-----