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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the delivery of the Part V requirement at the Cherrywood SDZ is front loaded in order that a minimum of 800 council managed and owned units will be delivered in the first tranche of 2,000 homes due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35916/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of plans for public private partnerships in housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35917/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if councils should proceed with traditional build social housing in order to ensure there are no delays with regard to councils that are awaiting details of the rapid delivery procurement procedures before they proceed with housing plans on specific sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35918/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been available for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to draw down and the amount that has been drawn down for capital spending on Traveller accommodation over each of the years 2011 to 2015 and to date in 2016; and the way these figures compare with all other councils across...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the advice he would give a person (details supplied) who would like an inquiry into the death of their baby infant in Temple Street hospital in 1966 shortly after birth in view of the fact there was no autopsy and the fact that they never received any remains and did not receive a birth or death certificate until 2000; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the National Centre for Pharmaco-Economics report that the drug Orkambi prolongs life by a median 7.4 years, 2.45 QALY and the cost-effectiveness threshold of €30,000 per annum, if he will advise of the average cost and lowest cost per annum charged for the drug in the EU; if the HSE will make an offer to the manufacturer in view of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree that we need urgent delivery of social housing. As the Minister is aware, council housing is our preference. There is also no doubt that if there is a direct choice between rapid build and bricks and mortar houses, the majority of people would prefer bricks and mortar.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only case therefore for rapid build is if the houses can be delivered much quicker and if it is cheaper. The evidence in Dún Laoghaire is as follows, and I will listen if the Minister can tell me different. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is building ten council houses in Sallynoggin and we are told the project will take 12 months. It is also building 12 rapid-build...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the question grouped?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were told they were grouped.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. 33.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Clarity.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for rapid-build housing; the planned per-unit cost of these homes; the speed at which they can be delivered; the comparison in both cost and delivery time with traditional-build council houses; if he will provide a breakdown of plans for these kind of houses, by local authority; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the detail I am trying to get at. I will be asking about Cherrywood later. We are going to have 8,000 houses. How many of them will be council houses? My fear is it will be very few. I know that, next year, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown will get 103 local authority houses, although, in fact, we do not even know if they are all local authority houses. It is probably fewer than 100...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was. I am not a councillor.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason I was protesting is that, for six years, since I was elected to this House, I have been pleading with the Government to return to the provision of local authority housing. For five of those years, I got blanked completely, and the list in Dún Laoghaire went from about 3,000 to about 6,000, with people now waiting 18 years on the list. I have people coming in to me every week...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of council houses owned and managed by local authorities that will be delivered in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 under the Rebuilding Ireland plan; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35506/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For some time I have been trying to get to the bottom of actual council houses and the delivery of same under Rebuilding Ireland. I would like to be wrong and I hope I am wrong but I suspect that under the heading "social housing" or "new build" we are actually getting hardly any local authority housing. Will the Minister provide the factual situation on local authority housing?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The expression, "The devil is in the detail", takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to trying to get to the bottom of figures for social housing in the Minister's Rebuilding Ireland plan. I will study the Minister's answer in detail, because there was a lot of detail. Certainly, on first hearing, one could be forgiven for saying I am not really getting a straight answer as to how many...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have 20 minutes; ten minutes for me and ten for Deputy Coppinger. According to the Minister, the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016 is designed to ensure every child is treated fairly and that the way in which schools decide on applications for admission is structured, fair and transparent. It does none of those things. It does not go anywhere near delivering on those...