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- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This budget is an establishment budget of crumbs and scraps that will make next to no difference to the lives of the vast majority of ordinary citizens. It will, as usual, protect the interests of the very wealthy in Irish society and will further enrich landlords, in particular. It would be a fair, short description of this budget to refer to it as a landlord's budget. Incredibly, there...
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is €25 million in spending.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fund the development of the physical infrastructure of a college (details supplied) as has been promised by his predecessors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29454/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will commit to raising the issue regarding subsidiary earners on disability allowance being assessed for rent in council tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29510/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider in his deliberations on the new local authority rent scheme removing both disability allowance and family income supplement for subsidiary earners from rental assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29487/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 250. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider disallowing casual or short term work early in a person's life that causes a large gap in their work history and therefore bringing down the yearly average of PRSI contributions in respect to contributory pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29319/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will retrospectively apply home-maker's credits to persons who were home makers pre-1994 in view of the fact that a group of persons are being discriminated against in respect of their pensions and PRSI contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29322/16]
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Although I am not doing so, it would be very reasonable to ask for carers to be paid the minimum wage, at least, for what they do, or alternatively to be paid an amount equivalent to how much it would cost the State to provide home care packages if carers were not doing this full-time caring job. The State is getting this service from carers for €204 a week, or approximately €5...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly it.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the wider-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I take the Minister's point. I am glad to hear he is looking at the issue.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. Is the Minister saying he is considering giving carers a full entitlement to the credits that would allow them to get non-means-tested payments when they cease caring? Is he going to move towards that?
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The State could pay the contributions for them in acknowledgement of their service.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the only workers on €5 an hour.
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the findings of the Michelle Millar report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28754/16]
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair is very amusing.
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Michelle Millar report is a damning indictment of the cuts that were imposed on lone parents in the name of so-called labour activation. It clearly indicts the cuts imposed by Deputy Burton as having increased deprivation levels by reducing the incomes of lone parents who go out to work. Will the Minister act on the Millar report, which was commissioned by his Department?
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I get to respond?
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider ensuring those on carer's allowance are afforded the full benefits of a PRSI stamp in order that in the event of the person they care for no longer needing care, they would be eligible for jobseeker's benefit and the other benefits afforded to those working full-time who lose their jobs; and if he will make a statement on the...