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National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To establish this right and link this legislation to what is a human right is a very positive, progressive and necessary step. We must raise the standards and counter the pressure and drive towards the race to the bottom. I would point to another dimension to this issue which we discussed at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform yesterday and I was very...

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

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Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also support this amendment. It is entirely sensible and appropriate. The Minister of State has acknowledged that elements of this Bill will have to be changed but cannot be changed at the moment for purely legal reasons, as Deputy O'Dea mentioned. The main explanation given to us on Committee Stage of the debate was that the marriage equality amendment had not yet been passed....

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Generally speaking, the legislation is to be welcomed. There has been some acknowledgement of concerns raised at earlier Stages in the debate. All of this is to be welcomed, but it quite simply does not go far enough, particularly in the area of young people. It is a pity that the Government is still lagging behind on this issue, given the absolutely fantastic sentiment for equality...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: La Senza and Vita Cortex.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 39:In page 21, to delete lines 17 and 18.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 40:In page 21, to delete lines 22 to 28.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 43:In page 22, lines 2 to 23, to delete all words from and including “(1) Section” in line 2 down to and including line 23.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 38:In page 21, line 10, to delete “and profit on those costs”.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I move amendment No. 36:In page 20, to delete lines 19 to 39, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 and 2.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commission any reviews on the over-use of drugs in mental health and disability services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27668/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Health considering his Department's concerns regarding the over-use of drugs with elderly and adult patients, if he has similar concerns regarding children in mental health and disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) might expect to receive a reply to an application for an exceptional needs payment to fund new clothes. [28105/15]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any good that is in this Bill is completely wiped out by these leasing provisions. This marks another fundamental watershed in this Government's gallop away from the principle of the provision of social housing by local authorities and towards outsourcing such provision to the private sector. When private developers build housing under this Bill, nothing at all - not 20% and not 10% - will...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have had a long debate on this matter. We have gone through the various arguments in great detail on Committee and Report Stages. The five amendments I have tabled and the amendments tabled by some other Deputies deal with the worst aspects of this Bill. We have argued at length about the big weaknesses in the Bill. There are one or two strengths as well. The get-out clauses and...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can help Deputy Coppinger on that one. In response to a recent question, the Minister of State informed us that 1,700 housing units are to be built in 100 separate projects across all 31 local authorities by the end of 2017. To put that in context, in my area alone, 1,200 people joined the list last year. They are joining the list at a rate of 100 per month. The figures are the same...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Somebody asked why the Government would want to reduce the requirement for developers to reduce from 20% to 10% the level of development given over to social and affordable housing. I found part of the answer in the latest document from the European Commission, the post-programme surveillance report. It comments on the shocking rise in rents and so on and states: "Policies should aim to...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a very direct question and, yet again, got a very indirect answer or none at all. The question is: are local authorities required to spend the money on social housing or can they spend it on other things? That is what we want to know. As I understand the amendment, it states that we need to spend the money on social housing. I think the Minister of State has told us they can spend...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State did not.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He should answer the question. Are the local authorities required to spend the money on social housing? "Yes" or "No."