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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To begin, I doubt very much that I referred to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, as a dictator, or mentioned North Korea for that matter. I want to set that record straight.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I might have said that the Minister was neoliberal.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will set that aside. I also play the policy and not the man. What the Minister is not acknowledging in his answer, which made reference to the Gini coefficient and so on, is that there have been a succession of reports showing that there has been a very significant jump in the wealth of those at the very top. The Wealth-X report during the week said that the number of high net worth...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will be glad to know that I will not quibble about the fact that the water charges are being abolished and the cost will be met by the Central Fund. I just believe that the Central Fund should be larger by tapping into other sources of revenue. Will the Minister confirm that the cost of abolishing water charges will not impact on the water infrastructure capital investment...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was always on the balance sheet of the Government. It never moved off it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish Water never got off the balance sheet.

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I feel that following that last intervention, that in talking about mental health, maybe members of Fine Gael are moving to the left, because that sounds uncannily like an injury to one is an injury to all. I welcome the sentiment.

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed.

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise because I will have to leave after my contribution. I have a meeting at 12 noon. I very much welcome the discussion. I also commend the Ceann Comhairle on his proposal that we would have the symposium in September. I commend Deputy James Browne on legislation that essentially takes us further towards removing the stigma regarding mental health and recognising the legitimacy of...

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is where scripted answers really is exposed. This is the same answer I received from the Minister on 27 June, in which it was stated the place finder service had been operating in the Dublin local authority areas since 2015. He went on to say they included Dún Laoghaire, but that is not true. This is a fact and it is referred to on the websites of the Dublin homeless executive...

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wrote to the Minister on 6 July, detailing the problem and received a response yesterday from Luach Hardiman who I presume works in the Minister's office conveying apologies for the delayed response and saying he would bring the matter to the Minister's attention. I assume he still has not done so. I have detailed how we go through all of the instructions for the place finder service...

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very important, if the Minister gives me two parliamentary responses to the effect that there is a place finder service operating in Dún Laoghaire, but when I ring the county council the staff have to ask what it is before the homeless section tells me there is no place finder service. People in trouble need a place finder service which we want. Will the Minister set up a...

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying there is no place finder service in Dún Laoghaire.

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are told to ring Dún Laoghaire County Council.

Other Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The subject of his question has been covered.

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...