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Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister be straight up and give us the date when this will happen?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (4 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when local authorities will receive details of housing grant allocations for 2015; the number of houses he expects to be built by councils; if he will provide a list of the breakdown by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9078/15]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Much of the background context of this Bill was debated in the Dáil in the Private Members' Bill I put forward last week. This context is a staggering and unacceptable increase in the levels of deprivation, poverty and hardship for some of our most vulnerable citizens, who have suffered the cruel injustice and hardship of austerity cuts since 2008. The crisis period from 2008 to 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Expenditure (3 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the minor works grant for national schools, the reason for the variance in the rate for special needs pupils in special needs schools and that for similar pupils in mainstream schools. [8965/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (26 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the latest developments in Egypt particularly in relation to the mass trials of protestors and including Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa at the recent European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7794/15]

Income and Living Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all my colleagues in the Technical Group for their contributions, and all the people who contributed to this discussion. I do not want to spend a lot of time on the global picture in terms of Europe, Greece and so on except to say how right Deputy Ross is about the outrageous stab in the back this Government has given the Greek people when they are fighting to improve a dire...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister's officials for their briefing on the Bill. I have no doubt they put a great deal of work into this very detailed and progressive legislation, which I welcome. The Bill seeks to acknowledge the reality of family life in Ireland today and, in that sense, is long overdue. We have moved a long way from the conception of certain people of what a family is supposed to be....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the delegation for the presentation and for highlighting this issue, which is both important and fascinating. My constituency clinic comes across issues of this nature quite regularly. In tackling this issue is the best approach to focus solely on the failure to deal appropriately with migrants rather than across the board? I have no doubt that migrants are confronted with specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. O'Brien says there is a need to focus on particular aspects but it is a case of how the whole package is presented to front-line workers while citing the possible needs of specific areas and specific groups.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are more or less in agreement on these matters. Certainly, we are trying to get to the same place. On the question of name badges for staff, I have enormous sympathy with what Mr. O'Brien is saying. We are constantly having to advocate for people who are in these difficult situations, but I also am conscious of the other side. That is not in any way to excuse racism, sexism or any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where staff are dealing with queries by telephone, I do not see a problem with their providing a name to callers. However, I could anticipate problems where officials on the front desk in a housing department or in certain areas of public service are required to have their full name on display. I take all the points Mr. O'Brien has made and agree it is important to humanise the process. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Expenditure (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Health his views to the recent reports suggesting that there is no evidence that the universal health insurance model leads to reductions in the cost of health care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8052/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to resume a full-time ambulance service within the National Ambulance Service Health Service Executive at ambulance stations where services were curtailed, due to cutbacks, including services at the following ambulance stations,Tallaght, Swords, Maynooth, Baltinglass, Arklow and Dunshaughlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/15]

Income and Living Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that an election prediction?

Income and Living Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the latest available figures.

Income and Living Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: notes the incontrovertible evidence that the impact of austerity cuts and regressive charges since the economic crash in 2007/8 has contributed to a consistent rise in poverty, deprivation and hardship and that this situation has continued to worsen under the current Government; notes, in this regard, that:— the Central Statistics...

Other Questions: Youth Services Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a progress report on the national youth strategy, particularly with regard to youth at risk of the poorest outcomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7757/15]

Other Questions: Youth Services Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will deal with the Minister's failures in the area of child poverty in Private Members' business tonight. I want to ask about another failure in the national youth strategy that was highlighted in the Children's Rights Alliance report. It was highlighted very dramatically last week when over 150 young people, many of whom were in tears, came here to protest about the lack of proper...

Other Questions: Youth Services Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not get a supplementary question.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Responsibilities (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his responsibilities in the area of child mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7756/15]