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Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If there is nobody else here, I would like to speak for a longer time because there is no subject that frustrates and taxes me as much as this one, and it has done since I came into the Dáil in 2011. There has been much debate about this issue for a number of years. I will not start with the general picture, although I will come to that later but much of that ground has been...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who has been awarded a disability allowance on appeal, can have the award backdated to March 2015 rather than January 2016 as has been decided by the appeals office. [21746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given priority for special footware; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Get Jeremy Corbyn in.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is our best hope over there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the worrying rise of political forces in Britain who have traded on anti-immigrant sentiment which is dangerous and, frankly, racist, will the Taoiseach join me in wishing Mr. Jeremy Corbyn the best of luck in the Labour Party leadership battle? A victory for him is the best hope some politics might emerge in Britain that will move in a more progressive direction, particularly in view...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any issues he raised and any bilateral meetings he attended at the European Council meeting. [19428/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the European leaders he has talked to or met since the result of the UK exit referendum. [19429/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's stated position on people in mortgage and housing difficulties is to keep them in their homes. The previous Government phased out mortgage interest supplement for new applicants as of the beginning of 2014. Everybody who receives the supplement will be removed from the scheme as of 1 January 2018, while those in receipt of mortgage interest relief will no longer receive it...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I congratulate Deputy Bailey on very loyally setting out-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the glass-half-full view of what is happening in Dún Laoghaire. I came here to make the opposite point. I will not, like some other members, go straight into issues that are properly the territory of a different committee. Suffice it to say that we are in a bad situation in Dún Laoghaire. I say to the committee "Watch this space" as regards Dún Laoghaire. We in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can kind of understand, although I do not fully accept, why if people wanted to move in, the Department would say that it is just too expensive and it cannot go to the limits. However, is Ms Faughnan stating that for people who have connections, are from the area, have family there, have kids going to school there and so on, the Department will work with them to not make life difficult in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that even with the new limits that have been revised upwards? So it will not be the case that community welfare officers will say "The limits have gone up now and that is it".

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome that news. I will monitor the situation closely. I have no choice but to do so as people are contacting me about this matter. I appeal to the Department to recognise the scale of the problem in south Dublin. There may be other areas; I do not want to say it is exclusive to south Dublin, but it is worse there. To get the scale of it, that rent level is double the average in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very briefly. I know the plan is to transfer people who are working, the working poor who cannot afford stuff, to HAP. Huge numbers of landlords will never go to HAP, so Ms Faughnan will still be dealing with this for a long time, no matter what the Minister might say or Ms Faughnan might hope. HAP is supposed to help people who are working and put them on a differential rent. It is a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that through the Department?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask Ms Faughnan to report back to the Minister that there are emergency cases of people working? I know a baker who works every day, 40 hours a week and he lives in homeless hostels because he cannot get the rent supplement. As a stopgap, I ask Ms Faughnan to discuss with the Minister the possibility of some rent supplement payments going to people who are working and who are homeless.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It definitely is not, Deputy.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was presented some solutions.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 8 June 2016, if he will consider watching the film referred to (details supplied); his views on the matters raised in the film; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21328/16]