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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the Prime Minister, Theresa May, in the aftermath of the events in London on 22 March 2017. [15433/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the fact that he passed on his sympathies and condolences to Prime Minister May after the atrocious attack in London last week. We all condemn that attack as absolutely murderous and appalling and sympathise with the innocent victims. I wonder how many more of these atrocities have to take place, not just close to us in London or Paris, but also those that continue...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many pressing issues in this increasingly failed State. However, there is no greater emergency than the housing and homelessness emergency. The report of the Constitutional Convention was absolutely clear in its instruction to the Government on the issue of housing. Fully 84% voted at the Convention for the right to housing to be inserted into the Constitution. The Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recommendations arising from the Constitutional Convention that have not yet been implemented or that are still awaiting a plan for implementation. [15226/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with a lot of the points made on the need to significantly ramp up capital investment and the madness of the EU fiscal rules. Without wishing to score a point, we flagged this at the time of the fiscal treaty and opposed it for that reason. Did the CIF see this coming too?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our main reason was the effect it was going to have on our ability to spend, both in terms of capital and current spending. We described it with a catchphrase, "neoliberal straitjacket". Some of the people who are now rightly complaining supported this neoliberal straitjacket. We need to ramp up infrastructure investment in a whole range of areas. Are CIF members the best people to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. The port tunnel cost far in excess of what we were originally told. The controversial library headquarters in Dún Laoghaire ended up costing some €10 million more than we were originally told and the national children's hospital will go way over budget. How can we have confidence in CIF members when this consistently happens? That is what Joe Public is asking. The State...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I make no bones about it. Is the profit builders take out not just an extra cost? It inflates the cost and it would be cheaper for the State to do these things directly, to build up its own capacity and deliver infrastructure directly. NERI has spoken of a semi-State company but we think a State company should deliver the housing we need. What happened between 2002 and 2008 is proof that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I add a brief follow-up? I do not imagine, short of the socialist revolution or whatever, that we are going to completely get rid of private involvement in construction of infrastructure or housing. Can the construction industry seriously deliver the low-cost housing that is needed? I have many concerns about water infrastructure, energy infrastructure and so on but the most urgent...

Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we be coming back to Bills to be introduced?

Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vótáil.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well below.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are cherry-picking because the Government allows them to.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Reports (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been a full report or if she is planning to commission a report into allegations of abuse and neglect at a home (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15219/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to make recommendations to Cabinet with regard to a review of the congregational indemnity agreement, in view of the revelations concerning the mother and baby home in Tuam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15220/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the 2017 funding for housing adaptation grants will be allocated to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14901/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1312 of 21 March 2017, if she will forward the request for information with regard to seven suspensions of staff at Tusla to Tusla for answer or if she will request the information from the agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15284/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Eacnamaíochta, Sóisialacha agus Cultúir), 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I listened to the speakers from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael talk about why they will not support the adoption of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Constitution, for some reason the word "sophistry" sprang to mind. I looked up the definition of sophistry. It comes from the Greek sophist, and refers to the use of clever but false arguments...

Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is that?