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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the plans for 8,000 homes in the Cherrywood SDZ will deliver sufficient social housing and affordable homes for low and middle income earners to rent and buy for this planned new town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35479/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether rent controls are urgently needed considering the further dramatic increases in rent in Dublin and other urban centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35477/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will reconsider the plan for opening libraries without the necessary skilled staff in view of the nationwide ballot of librarians on the issue of staffless libraries and the widespread public opposition to this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35478/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress of the housing assistance payment scheme, HAP, across each local authority; his views on whether it is on target to reach the numbers planned in Rebuilding Ireland; his further views on whether this scheme faces more challenges in areas of the country where rents are particularly high; and if he will...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to equal pay for all teachers regardless of the date they started working in view of recent school closures due to industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35194/16]

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Discrimination in employment is illegal. There was a long struggle, going way back to the 1830s in the United States and right up to the 1970s in this country, for equality in employment and to make it unacceptable to discriminate against any category of person. In recent weeks, however, teachers angrily protested and took strike action because the Minister refused to commit to the basic...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Minister.

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not very helpful to engage in a disingenuous response to a straightforward question about increments. We all know that there are increments. There have always been increments in the public sector and people move up the pay scale. The issue is that there are two different pay scales. In fact, there are three different pay scales for people who have exactly the same training and...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should not give the money argument. There would be money available if some vulture funds and super-profitable corporations were made to pay their taxes. The issue at stake is discrimination. The Minister referred to negotiation. What is there to negotiate in terms of ending inequality? There is nothing to negotiate. It is fair enough for one to negotiate pay increases and...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, is in Marrakesh today making an address to the UN summit on climate change. The major concern at that summit is around the dangerous pledges of US President-elect Trump to tear up the Paris climate change treaty, thereby threatening global action to deal with climate change. There...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us are going to the US embassy to protest against Mr. Trump and his agenda tomorrow. I would like to know if this Government is going to stand up against his anti-environmental agenda.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to say to Trump?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider changing the way in which pupil-teacher ratio, PTR, is organised to ensure that no class in any school is above the agreed PTR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35193/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider employing a liaison officer in hospitals for victims of institutional abuse (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35295/16]

European Defence Agency: Motion (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.

European Defence Agency: Motion (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the two particular aspects of the EDA we are talking about here are relatively innocuous, on the face of it, I have a problem with the agency itself for the reasons that have just been alluded to. I am against the arms industry. There is simply no justification for the disgusting arms industry. The EDA was previously known as the European Armaments, Research and Military Capabilities...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform has met; and if he will provide its forward schedule of meetings. [33563/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very curious to know what exactly this committee is doing in the area of inequality, with which it is tasked to deal. It seems to me, particularly given recent events such as the election of Mr. Trump in the US and what many people are calling the rise of extreme populism, that the question of tackling inequality is central to addressing inequality. The political establishment, in all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One second.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. All of these factors-----