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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will he ensure that people in the HAP programme have secure accommodation and that local authorities will be obliged to keep them in permanent and secure housing?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Otherwise, the weasel words mean nothing.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I went a few seconds over.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Micheál Martin went eight minutes over.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I have a response?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is selling the land.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a lack of supply of council houses.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Six years.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to be honest and say I am sick and tired of hearing the Taoiseach or representatives of the Government say it takes time to fix the homelessness and housing emergency. I came into the Dáil in 2011 and brought in with me, probably for the first time, dozens of families and individuals, including children, who were facing housing emergencies at that time. I warned the Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell Antonia, whose father has motor neurone disease and who - along with her father - is about to be evicted at the end of this month and has nowhere to go.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell Anna, who is living in a boxroom at her parents' house, sharing with her 14 year old niece, her two year old daughter and a three year old son. The list goes on. I will be writing to the Taoiseach with all of these cases.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should please tell them what he is going to do for them and that his housing solutions are working for them.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The majority voted for those who promised to get rid of water charges.

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A point I have made on a number of occasions, but which I will make again, is that the Minister is operating a double standard in the various agencies under her Department's remit. In response to a parliamentary question that I put to her on how many staff or employees under the Department had been suspended from their jobs pending an investigation, I was informed the number was 26. I put...

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To continue the point, as Deputy McDonald cannot come in again, if the committee report is not ready by this evening, which I would say is highly possible at this stage, if at all, and a motion flows from that, will the Government allow for a debate on that motion?

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If not-----

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payments Data (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons or families that were in receipt of rent allowance that have moved to a HAP tenancy in 2017; the number in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17948/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction funding for a school (details supplied) for upgrade works that were deferred in summer 2016 and are due to be completed in summer 2017. [18033/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who was in receipt of disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communication he has had with other foreign Ministers or Governments about the savage chemical attack in Syria in recent days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18323/17]