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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the proposal for a report on the cost of housing. Deputy McGrath referred specifically to the cost in the private sector but I think we need to know the cost of the State building housing too. I have tabled several parliamentary questions on this in recent years and the figures I get vary significantly. We need to compare the costs of public sector and private sector building to...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I cite that as an example of the different costs there are for building housing, which is precisely relevant to the section.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Four houses for €360,000.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is less than that.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, €90,000 each.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a proposal which Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has taken up. There are different ways of delivering housing and these are high specification, environmentally advanced housing units. Any study in this area needs to examine all the different models of delivering housing and make a comparison between them.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, Minister------
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is related to the finances of the State. The reason I put forward the proposal is that we need the study to be comparative. I am referring to not only council housing but affordable housing. If it turns out that we can deliver affordable housing for purchase much cheaper by the State providing it directly, then we need to know that as part of any serious study.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to see the study.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is also a problem in my area.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battle Groups (9 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost to the Exchequer of Irish participation in the EU battle groups since their foundation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33813/16]
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is pro-choice.
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, Deputy Mattie McGrath is perfectly entitled to his views on us but he should withdraw the remark about us spitting at gardaí.
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What did the Deputy see?
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What did the Deputy see?
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is disgraceful.
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As far as we are concerned, Deputies are paid too much. We believe the pay of public representatives should be linked to that of those they represent. In this way, public representatives would have an incentive to improve the lot of the majority. Part of the disconnect between politics and the majority of people is in the fact that the material circumstances of public representatives, in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What months will it cover?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister understood the other question. With the winding-up of the CEC and the CETS programmes, those who were availing of them are telling me that they will be required under the new scheme to make a bigger contribution to expensive child care from their already low incomes. Consequently, they will be in a worse position. It will be more difficult for them to go to work...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am talking about.