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Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is not.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had communication with President Trump in view of the €110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia and in further view of the human rights issues in Saudi Arabia and the escalation of air strikes in Syria and Iraq since President Trump took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns either within the European Union or directly with Turkish President Erdogan regarding the continued imprisonment of 15 opposition parliamentarians from the HDP party and up to 150 journalists by the Turkish Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25648/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a family reunification visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25511/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the Christian Brothers are to pay their outstanding debts to the redress scheme: if there is a requirement for them to pay in cash or if land transfers would be acceptable, particularly in cases in which doing so would safeguard a school and its facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25457/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that the Christian Bothers intend to pay the full amount of their debt to the redress scheme at the expense of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin by selling off the school's playing fields; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25456/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the Christian Brothers are to pay their outstanding debts to the redress scheme; if there is a requirement for them to pay in cash or if land transfers would be acceptable, particularly in cases in which doing so would safeguard a school and its facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25458/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an agreement was made by the Christian Brothers to ensure the use of the playing fields attached to a college (details supplied) would be used by the college and its pupils as long as it was in existence; if the Christian Brothers move to sell the playing fields to a property developer represents a breach of that agreement; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to raise the current income limits to qualify for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25286/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding a situation in which a person that has entered into a HAP tenancy and has an increase in earnings pushing them over the limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25455/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the persecution being suffered by the Guarani-Kaiowá people in Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil including their forced removal from their ancestral lands at the hands of agri-business, the Brazilian Government and paramilitaries; if he will contact the Brazilian Government and convey the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Arms Trade (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 334. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether it is appropriate that the State should trade with Israel, particularly in the area of armaments, in view of the ongoing denial of basic human rights to the Palestinian population, the continued expansion of illegal settlements into Palestinian terriroty and the current freedom and dignity hunger strike of 1,500...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 335. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his efforts to have a person (details supplied) released from prison in Cairo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25650/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Refugee Resettlement Programme (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the chemical attacks on civilians in Syria shows the need for a greater effort by Ireland in taking in refugees from the region fleeing this war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25836/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 461. To ask the Minister for Health his view on whether the disability complaints section of the HSE national complaints governance and learning team is adequately staffed to deal with the complaints that are currently being received in view of the fact there were 1,119 complaints in 2016 of which 655 were still outstanding by the end of March 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (30 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the single affordable child care scheme will be ready in September 2017 as promised; if not, the way in which parents will manage child care placements for the school year if they do not know the cost of their child care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25849/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, Mr. Mike Allen of Focus Ireland stated that emergency accommodation would not solve the crisis and, specifically, that we needed legislation to stem the flow of families into homelessness. A few hours later, we had a Bill in the Dáil that would have done precisely that - stop economic evictions and reduce rents to affordable levels - but the Government and Fianna Fáil...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 12 km or 15 km away from a school is no good.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am disappointed the Minister for Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, is not here. Is the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, not utterly ashamed of his Government? On the day it was revealed that we have reached a new low with 12 homeless families being told to go to Garda stations, some of whom ended up sleeping in parks, the...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Minister to respond to the suggestion I made that this whole thing stinks to high heaven because the series of events simply defy credibility in terms of being characterised as blunders. Mr. O'Connell in court emphasised that many other people knew how the investigation was being conducted. According to him, the then Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Deputy...