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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...

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.