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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but I am very worried about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who would make these inspections?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was one very specific question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if, notwithstanding the Minister's target around taking people out of hotels, in some cases hotels are better than hubs. In some cases hotels are better than hubs, in particular if the hubs are long distances from where people's children go to school. We must not let a target trump the best interests of children and families by insisting that they go to hubs when a hotel, while far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is okay to send children 12 km to go to school?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mother and children are the best-placed people to tell us that rather than us telling them what to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are travelling 10 km or 12 km.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I brought to public attention the Robin Hill apartments, which to my mind demonstrate everything that is going wrong with policy. NAMA sat on 15 empty units in this development for a number of years. The council tried to obtain those units from NAMA but it was refused them. NAMA sold the development to Cerberus, people are now being evicted and the 15 units remain vacant. Also, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true. It was given by the Department of Justice and Equality for social housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to stop contracting companies in to build for the councils. That is what we always did in the past.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like that, but in the absence of that what previously happened is that councils built council estates, bringing in McInerney or Collins or whoever it was to build these estates. We did not have to give away two thirds of our land to get houses built on it.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [28863/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider establishing a Cabinet committee on education. [28862/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: International Agreements (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had communications with his counterparts across the world in view of recent statements by President Trump to pull out of the Paris Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29811/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Guidelines (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on a recent report commissioned by his Department and carried out by the SEAI which found that wind turbines should be sited ten times the tip height from dwelling houses; his plans to ensure that these recommendations are implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29810/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage discount a company (details supplied) received relating to the par value and the market value at the time of purchasing from NAMA apartments in Balally, in particular, and other property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29530/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if communication has been received from the Christian Brothers relating to a college (details supplied) on the question of the nature of the contract for the sale and development of lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (27 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has requested of the Christian Brothers with regard to the playing pitches at a college (details supplied) that they transfer the lands into his Department's ownership in lieu of some of their debt to the redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29545/17]