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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide copies of memos, instructions and directives to local authorities or individual communications to particular councils in relation to all aspects of housing, including but not limited to, staffing levels, emergency accommodation, building programmes, acquisitions, Part 5 and Part 8 and allocation priorities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow all persons in emergency homeless situations to self-accommodate; his further plans to cease to limit this option to families and to cease the requirement that persons be put in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16807/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funds for emergency accommodation in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown to prevent the relocation of homeless people to emergency shelters in the city where they are away from family and support networks. [17027/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused payment under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16786/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 574. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will respond to allegations that some members of the Defence Forces serving on missions, such as Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean, are being paid less than the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17052/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 575. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of operations the Defence Forces are involved in abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the Defence Forces use the anti-malaria drug Larium, despite its known side-effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17054/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will justify the enforcement of the use of the anti-malaria drug, Larium, which has serious side effects, by the Defence Forces abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17055/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Industry (16 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had discussions with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on the exploratory drilling at Woodburn Forest in County Antrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16155/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce a national ban on hydraulic fracturing, given the international evidence on its dangers; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16154/16]

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was to be no discussion in the Dáil.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of clarification, the motion was not to be discussed in the Chamber.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This motion is part of an ongoing and systematic cover-up, one involving the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and others in the House, of the country's collusion with aggressive and large-scale corporate tax avoidance by the largest and most profitable multinationals in the world operating in Europe, including this country. It is extraordinary that the only reason we are even debating this motion...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a specific question. I understand the Minister for Education and Skills is to sign a statutory instrument by the end of this week that essentially closes off the possibility of level 8, Montessori trained teachers being able to work, as they have until now, within the State system in special schools. These teachers are trained in St. Nicholas Montessori College in my constituency and...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still do not think the time being provided is adequate and would briefly like to explain why, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue I am highlighting is how we will deal with a proposal for a directive on country by country reporting on the European Union's efforts to clamp down on aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals. As we all know, this country and companies operating here are at the centre of that controversy. This is specifically directed at multinationals. I find it extraordinary that an all-party...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned this briefly the other day.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Originally this proposal was not down for debate at all, quite extraordinarily.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did, but I am going to make it again.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to acknowledge the efforts of Alice in the Whip's office in bringing this to the attention of the Government and allowing for some time. When she asked me whether this was satisfactory, I said some time was better than none.