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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]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a further progress report on his most recent actions and communications regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18332/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (6 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request from NAMA the correspondence it had with a company (details supplied) during the due diligence processes, in particular regarding potential fire safety and structural defects and commercial negotiations therein in respect of an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme (6 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the affordable rental scheme; the number of properties which have been secured to date; the costs involved; the numbers of persons that have accessed the scheme; the bodies which manage the scheme; the channels through which persons have accessed the scheme; the amount of further housing which will be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts (6 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the construction projects on which the State has engaged companies (details supplied) as main contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17159/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have great respect for religious diversity and people's religious beliefs, to which they are entitled. What is totally unacceptable, however, is the religious segregation of young children, particularly in a country where one religious denomination dominates. What was supposed to be a curriculum for multi-denominational schools, which was all inclusive, was then given over to a Catholic...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider re-examining the model for teaching of faith formation in community national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17093/17]