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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (5 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. Will the new strategy statement acknowledge the disastrous failure of the housing strategy pursued during the past six years? That is not a rhetorical use of the word "disastrous". It is a self-evident fact that the strategy that has been pursued has failed to an extraordinary level. It has resulted in almost 3,000 people being homeless and 7,000 people in total, an enormous number,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (5 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a change to the remit of NAMA in view of the ongoing lack of supply in the housing market and the housing and homelessness crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been on an urgent waiting list to see a urologist for four years; if there is a shortage of urologists here; and the steps that he will take to shorten the time for persons to see a urologist. [31613/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Notwithstanding that there have been policy failures in multiple areas by this Government, the principle of Cabinet subcommittees is a good one because it allows for joined-up thinking between different Departments. I want to ask again about the need for a Cabinet subcommittee in the area of education. We did not have one in the previous Government and it is critical that we have one for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are on Cabinet committees.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wait until it happens.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about CETA?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when he plans to establish new Cabinet committees; and the committees which will be established. [31171/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Taoiseach and the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, were touting their support for the CETA agreement, an agreement that could result in thousands of job losses, fundamentally undermine workers' rights, subvert environmental protections and, crucially, undermine the sovereignty of the legal system and the Constitution in this country and countries across Europe. Bizarrely,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his plans in respect of constitutional reform in the coming months. [31172/17]

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want it noted that it is not true that the order in front of us is exactly what was agreed at the Business Committee.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle agrees with me. I was going to be rapporteur this week and I decided not to do it because we agree certain things and then other things appear both for next week and for this week. If we are taking seriously working on a consensual basis at the Business Committee, then the Government should not be pulling surprises and having things appear the day after the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which parents will be able to access the subsidies offered under the affordable childcare scheme in September 2017 in view of the fact that there is no onus on childcare providers to offer the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she envisages the affordable childcare scheme being rolled out in September 2017; the guarantees there are that childcare providers will take up the scheme in order to ensure access to it to all parents that are eligible for subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31176/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the sectoral breakdown of revenue returns in each of the years 2013 to 2016, including PAYE, corporate tax, self employment and those employed via RCT1s, in tabular form. [31551/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grades of persons working in the national shared services office; if these posts are permanent; if positions become vacant, if the persons will be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a report on the appeal by a company (details supplied) of the Scope findings regarding alleged abuse of RTC1s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31550/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (4 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the place finder service works; the way in which homeless persons or persons at risk of homelessness access this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30987/17]