Results 14,181-14,200 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full cost of emergency accommodation in 2015, 2016 and projected for 2017 broken down by local authority and type of emergency accommodation, that is, hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels and family hubs. [36347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties; the number suitable for social housing; the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities broken down by authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the publicly owned land zoned for housing, broken down by local authority; if these lands are serviced, partially serviced or unserviced; the number of homes that could be built on this land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36349/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing applicants on local authority lists after the assessment of needs of earlier in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36350/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an environmental impact assessment was required by his Department in the granting of the foreshore licence to a company (details supplied) for kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36525/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the monitoring programme attached to the foreshore licence granted to a company (details supplied) to harvest kelp in Bantry Bay will be carried out by the company; the reason he deems it appropriate for the monitoring to be carried out by a private for profit company and not by an independent body; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedure for the granting of the foreshore licence to a company (details supplied) for kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay; if all statutory bodies, stakeholders and interested parties were informed of the application; the type of public consultation that was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36541/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual yield for motor tax projected for 2018; the yield for the past five years; the way these moneys were allocated; his plans for allocation of these funds for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36657/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Evictions (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate the case of the eviction of all tenants from a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36660/17]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the figure?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the underspent amount.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister and his team. It has become a bit of a staple of the new Government, including the Minister, to have a go at the left, with various adjectives attached to it, including "extreme", "far" and "hard". I note the Minister recently talked about people resisting change and saying we do not want change. It is an interesting development in the political narrative of the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think so.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will check it.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I might come back in the time that is available-----

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.