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Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We had houses.

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to take this sacred cow out of Irish politics. The suffocating consensus on the question of this country's 12.5% rate of corporation tax has dominated the Irish political landscape to the extent that we cannot talk about touching it. It seems that we cannot possibly dream of increasing corporate taxes. I suggest that this terrible consensus has played a key role in spearheading the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Risk Assessment (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his input into the publication of the national risk assessment 2016 overview of strategic risks. [35197/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the numbers of public sector workers counted as wholetime equivalents across each sector; the way in which it compares year on year since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36532/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the demographic changes over the years since 2008 and the way that has impacted on requirements for numbers of public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36533/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the US President-elect, Mr. Donald Trump. [35196/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will protect the family income supplement payment from all means testing across all Departments including for local authority rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36047/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will instruct Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to grant a person (details supplied) early entry into the HAP scheme to prevent them from becoming homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35759/16]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for affordable lettings in the context of rebuilding Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35915/16]

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.