Results 16,841-16,860 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a report on his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40155/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he had discussions regarding human rights abuses in Palestine while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40156/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the leaders he met while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40157/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America and the meetings he participated in while there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42434/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a fairly stinging indictment of the strategy and work of the health sub-committee and of this Government's policy on health that the nurses, who want to care for people, feel forced to go out on strike next week because of the utter disaster in emergency departments? Is that not just about the most serious indictment one can have? Today, according to Trolley Watch, there are 411...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [42433/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The figure is €60 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The local authorities are restricted from borrowing that money because of the fiscal compact and the rules on debt deficit targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that the local authorities are prohibited from borrowing money, we are trying to get the AHB and voluntary sector to pick up the slack. That is the thinking, hence the need to regulate and so forth. Am I correct that up until 2011 all of the money that went to the AHBs was direct Exchequer funding and that it was only after 2011, when this Government took office, that the funding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the private markets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to be clear about the facts. Direct State funding to the AHBs dropped from a high in 2008 of €1.7 billion to the current situation of less than €400 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a graph from the document we received from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service. It shows housing expenditure capital from 2007 to 2014. In 2008, it shows there was €1.7 billion in State funding available while in 2014 it was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to clarify if all of that money went to the AHBs. Do those figures make sense to the witness?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If possible, I wish to get the figures for the funding to the AHB sector from 2011 up to now, and the projected figures up to the end of the housing 2020 strategy. It would also be useful if we could compare that with the output from the sector for each of those years. On the output from the sector, has it increased this year, how does it compare to last year and what is expected next year...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the witness know how that translates into units in comparison?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the witness have a rough figure of what it was for 2013 and 2014?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Two hundred and fifty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of the 35,000 units that are identified between now and the end of 2020, do the witnesses know, roughly, how many of those are due to be delivered by the AHB sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not know at present.