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Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Pearse Doherty and his Sinn Féin colleagues for tabling the motion. As previous speakers said, it is scandalous that significant numbers of families lost their homes because of the practice of multiple banks to fail to give them the tracker rates to which they were entitled. It is shocking that the banks moved against these families on the basis of their inability to...

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would. If employers are not willing to fill it out, then people entitled to the payment are not able to get it. There are other ways in which employees could prove entitlement, such as the use of payslips and so on, which would allow them to demonstrate they have been working. There is a three-month or more requirement. The Minister could have the option for it to be weekly,...

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That abuse goes on.

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure people on zero-hour contracts who some weeks work the required 19 hours per week to qualify for family income supplement, FIS, are granted FIS for those weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2772/17]

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have an unacceptably high level of low-paid workers, the second highest in the OECD. That is bad enough. The Minister's failure to do anything about low-hour contracts compounds it. What makes it even worse is that people who are on low-hour contracts and might be entitled to FIS often cannot get it, given that employers will not fill out the Part 8 form. The lone parents group, Single...

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's answer does not address the issue I raised. As SPARK made clear to the Minister at the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, many employers of employees on low-hour contracts will not sign these forms. People have come to my clinic to make the same point. The forms require employers to indicate that somebody works a minimum of 19 hours per week....

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a point of order, the next set of questions is actually about the question we have just been dealing with. There is no need to extend the previous session.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In these negotiations, there is a big difference between asking and telling. Frankly, I do not think we should be asking. People in Ireland, Britain, in the North and in the South of this island say they want to maintain the common travel area. It should simply be told to the European Union that that is going to be the situation and that we are not accepting anything less than that. I...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will revise the rules to ensure that all recipients of social protection payments receive the Christmas bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2773/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which a member of the public can bring forward information or make a submission to the Garda whistleblowers inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3131/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Correspondence (24 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any reply he may have received from the Egyptian Prime Minister to his letter of November 2016 mentioned in Dáil Éireann on 23 November 2016. [1611/17]

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give two minutes of my time to Deputy Brassil.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. I always get the two Deputies mixed up.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the new politics at work, the left is giving time to Fianna Fáil, but it is taking the right position on the Bill. I commend Deputy Pringle for bringing forward this excellent Bill. Trócaire and a rake of other NGOs and environmental groups are campaigning in support of the Bill. It is a simple practical Bill to try to move in a serious direction towards addressing the...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not increasing. The Government wants to cut routes and privatise them. Several routes in my area have already been cut.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister of State.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth hurts. The Government overrides proper building standards when it comes to passive house standards and insulation because it would upset the developers. This is the reason. The Government has special pleading on Ireland's CO2 targets and we have no chance, according to anybody looking at it seriously, of reaching the targets necessary to meet our Paris commitment. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Disability rights activists are outside the Dáil as we speak, and I am passing on their request to the Tánaiste. They want to know when the promised legislation to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will come before the House, be debated and ratified? One of those outside made a very simple point to me, namely, that North Korea, a tin-pot...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure that is true of North Korea.