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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 773. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses acquired by each local authority by direct purchase by Part V in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date. [6670/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 774. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the regulations, criteria and price thresholds regarding the acquisition of houses by local authorities. [6671/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 775. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of the rapid build housing programme in Ballymun in Dublin 11; and the length of time the project took from the beginning of the process. [6672/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 776. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for a list of all emergency accommodation in the greater Dublin area, including hotels that are in regular use by the central placement unit, and those in occasional use. [6673/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 777. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria the central placement unit uses in deciding on the hotels to be used for emergency accommodation in the greater Dublin area. [6674/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 778. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the numbers of houses delivered by each local authority under each category. [6675/16]

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I nominate Deputy Coppinger not because we are interested in personalities, the drug of power or political position, but because we want to use this opportunity to highlight the issues that matter to our citizens and that every single Deputy in this House has a responsibility to address urgently. The two biggest parties, which are in a position to form a Government, should stop messing...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to nominate Deputy Ruth Coppinger for the position of Taoiseach. The process of Government formation since the general election has become a total farce. Coincidentally, it is now 40 days and 40 nights since the general election that this farce has continued. While Jesus Christ wandered in the wilderness for 40 days and nights, contemplating the sins of humanity and maybe the...

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I have one more sentence?

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The remit of NAMA must be changed so that it can immediately bend all of its resources and energy towards the direct provision of council and affordable housing. This has to happen immediately and we must cease allowing NAMA to do things that are worsening that crisis. These issues have to be addressed as an absolute matter of urgency. They are of far more importance and interest to the...

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the main parties of the political establishment in particular have been engaged in an elaborate political charade, an escalating social emergency exists in housing and homelessness that simply cannot wait to be dealt with. We have tabled a specific motion, although I acknowledge the wider points made by Deputy McDonald and others, on the need for urgent, comprehensive and radical...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except for the reference to the Independents.

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I too congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his election, as well as those Deputies elected for the first time and those who have been re-elected. All of us have to stand humble in the face of the judgment of the people. We spent several weeks campaigning on our different policies, priorities and political records, but now the judgment has been made. Our job is to act as swiftly as...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome this motion, one to which we also signed up. Again, I would ask for humility in the face of the judgment of the people. Nobody here has a monopoly on demanding or calling for political reform. That demand has come from the people through the ballot box and in many movements on different issues affecting our society, whether it is water, hospitals, disability, young people and the...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does refer to the debate about what needs to be discussed as a matter of priority on 22 March. That is a challenge to those who are talking about democracy, making this House relevant to people who are alienated from politics and that they live up to their pledges. There should be no attempt to slither out of pledges made in pursuit of votes in the election that has just gone. There is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on discussions he has held with the President of France, Mr. François Hollande, since the tragic events in Paris, France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42435/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on discussions he held with European Union leaders since the atrocities in Paris in France on 13 November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44825/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the increasingly long waiting times for operations at Cappagh Hospital in County Dublin, where waiting times of 18 months and longer are leading to some patients developing conditions arising out of the long-term use of pain medication, which is necessary given the waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3942/16]

Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Statements (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish I could say otherwise, but I believe the outcome of the banking inquiry - the report that has been produced - is depressingly predictable. It offers us nothing that will prevent a repeat of the crisis that brought this country to its knees. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. Many members of that committee put themselves forward for the...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the United Nations committee hearings on Ireland's record on children's rights and the new measures he is planning following the hearings, in particular in relation to children in direct provision and children in emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3201/16]