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Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a straightforward, fair and reasonable request that carers, who do an enormous service to this State by caring for the disabled, sick, old and infirm, would be acknowledged and afforded the full benefit of a PRSI contribution. This would mean that when they finish caring, they would be entitled to non-means-tested benefits, which would be fair and would acknowledge the hugely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management: European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Commissioner for his contribution. However, I suggest to him that the EU is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on this matter. It is talking about solidarity while, in reality, shutting the doors on the most desperate and vulnerable people fleeing the most appalling circumstances. I did not understand the justification the Commissioner offered for the EU-Turkey deal. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision not to grant home tuition to children with ASD between the age of two and a half and three years old unless it is provided in the home and not in a preschool environment as had previously been the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29082/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has repeatedly failed to provide adequate accommodation for the children attending a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that some children spend their school days in a classroom which measures a total of 24 sq. m, while his Department's guidelines for new classrooms is 80 sq. m. [29095/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Central Statistics Office Reports (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the quality of life issues facing young persons that have come to light from the Central Statistics Office data 2013. [22495/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of institutional abuse and neglect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29071/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the call for immediate action to direct a comprehensive revision of the proposed plan for neuro-rehabilitation services by his Department and the Health Services Executive, which is required to ensure adequate funding and co-ordination of these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29080/16]

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not getting an answer. My figures were broadly correct. That scale of outsourcing of social housing to private landlords will be ramped up again and again to a total of 111,000, as outlined by the Minister, through the HAP scheme, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and leasing. That is what he just said. That will happen between now and 2021. That is set out in Minister's...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking at the Minister's graphs and at the figures he just gave me.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not answer the question regarding how much it will cost. If I picked him up wrong there, correct me. Under this plan, how many houses will be delivered up to 2021 by the HAP scheme, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and long-term leasing? I ask him not to tell me that he does not have estimated figures of how much that will cost the State. I can tell him that it does...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to correct the record with respect to an earlier remark. I want to stress that we are in favour of affordable housing; we are not against it. The Minister will not be able to deliver that unless he does what the Keane report proposed in the 1970s, which is to take control of all building land and make sure that we set the prices because the last affordable housing scheme failed...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only some do not.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there no costings?

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money projected to be spent on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, housing assistance payment, HAP, and long-term leasing programmes over each of the years 2017 to 2021, listing the cost of each programme separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28687/16]

Other Questions: Housing Policy (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my opinion, the dirty little secret about Rebuilding Ireland is that the majority of the so-called social housing the Minister intends to deliver will, in fact, be private housing. It will not work in the form of HAP. I was doing a tot on the graph on page 46 of the Minister's Rebuilding Ireland - an Action Plan on Housing and Homelessness. Approximately 80,000 of the social housing...

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just a cover for privatisation.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his plans for mixed-tenure social and affordable developments on publicly-owned land, outlined in Rebuilding Ireland, will effectively mean the privatisation of publicly-owned land; his understanding of what constitutes affordable rental and the way in which this differs from the current local authority housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am seeking to ascertain why the Minister, who says he is committed to delivering social housing to deal with the housing emergency, is proposing to give away two thirds of public land - I refer to land on which 100% council housing would previously have been developed - for private housing that is called affordable rental or affordable. If I understand this correctly, two thirds of any...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I beg to differ. I think it is precisely ideological. I will give the Minister an example. The site of the former prison at Shanganagh Castle in Shankill is owned by the council. Some 550 units can be built there. In the past, 550 council houses would have been built there. As a result of the Minister's proposals, some 180 council houses will be built and the other houses will be...