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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, with regard to the housing assistance payment for homeless pilot in the four Dublin local authorities, he will provide the resources necessary to establish a housing assistance payment landlord recruitment team considering the very low take-up of housing assistance payment in Fingal and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take seriously the calls by a number of Deputies when we discuss mental health and suicide not to be political and to humanise the topic. This must be the starting point. For those who suffer from mental illness and suicidality, particularly those who are lost through suicide, and their families and friends, no words we say here can fully do justice to the suffering, anguish and pain it...

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was doing a good job last week.

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then let us debate it.

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed. I attended the Whips' meeting last week. We pressed at that meeting and the previous meeting for a debate on water charges. There was an interesting choreography between the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael representatives at the meeting, at which they looked for every excuse under the sun to explain why there was no time to discuss water charges, even though everyone in the...

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for missing my slot earlier but the timetable moved around a bit and I got caught. I was out demonstrating in solidarity with Luas workers at St. Stephen's Green. I am glad I was joined by a cross-party delegation, although no one from Fine Gael appeared. Fine Gael might look into the whole issue of what is actually going on with the Luas books.

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will make a link between these two points. Obviously, the issue of a possible Brexit is a serious one not just for Ireland and Britain, but for the whole of the European Union. People Before Profit has not formally made a decision on what it will say or whether it will campaign either way on this particular referendum. However, we will meet in the next couple of weeks to make such a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to restore disability allowance to a person (details supplied). [7954/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to extend the fuel allowance period due to uncharacteristically low temperatures in early April. [7955/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of investigations carried out by her Department's Scope section between 1 January 2006 to date in 2016, providing figures for each year, into the misclassification of building workers as self-employed; the number of persons investigated; and the number found to be misclassified. [7958/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection where there are cases of the misclassification of workers as self-employed that is bogus self-employment, the penalties imposed on the contractors involved. [7959/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average length of time involved in investigations into the misclassification of workers as self-employed. [7960/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of the visits of the joint investigations unit to sites (details supplied). [7962/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for his Department's changes to the single parent tax credit which only allows one parent to receive it. [7903/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 14 April 2016, the estimates and sources on the fiscal space for the years 2016 to 2018 that form the basis of his pre-election statements on the fiscal space available. [7957/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance what exactly the Revenue Commissioners mean when they refer to the estimated value of contract and to the degree should this be accurate as to the actual amount earned by the person to whom that contract refers. [7961/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the figures for the number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year apprentices registered with SOLAS for the following construction trades: bricklaying, carpentry/joinery, plastering and plumbing. [7953/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (21 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to discuss with Dublin Area Rapid Transport services how wheelchair users can be facilitated better so that there is someone available to put the ramp in place when a wheelchair user has made a booking. [7956/16]

Insurance Costs: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will finish now. When the Minister and the Government spoke before Christmas about how we spend more than everyone else in Europe on health, what was not unravelled was how much of it is in private health insurance and charges. In fact, it is about 25% or 30% of overall expenditure. This is second only, probably, to the United States, where approximately 40% of health expenditure is on...

Insurance Costs: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will focus in particular on health and car insurance. One also could throw in flood insurance and other insurance issues. Insurance is one of the biggest rip-off scandals affecting ordinary citizens nationwide. It speaks to a fairly dramatic policy failure on the part of the current and previous Governments. As for what I mean by that, the problem is one of constantly rising premiums...