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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons people are absolutely furious and have come out onto the streets in recent weeks and will come out again in huge numbers tomorrow - it is not just about paying water charges - is the dishonesty in politics, with political parties, Governments Ministers and Taoisigh thinking they can play the people for fools. The people are very angry about this. Every now and again the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the recent downgrading of the STEP Enterprises service run by St. John of God's; the relationship between the JobBridge scheme and this service; if allowances are made to allow persons participate in the JobBridge scheme while on a disability based payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47204/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 435. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the recent social housing strategy if he will provide a breakdown of the 35,000 homes that are planned for the period to 2020; if he will also provide a breakdown of the number of these that will be directly built council houses, with a breakdown per local authority; the number that will be provided for by...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to move 75,000 families and persons from rent allowance to the housing assistance payment scheme by 2020; if he will provide the full details of this scheme; the number of applicants per local authority and per year; the details of discussions to date with landlords; and if these applicants will be removed from...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 437. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the expansion of the housing assistance payment scheme, the new resources he will be providing to local authorities to deal with the increased work load this will bring. [47187/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 438. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the approved housing bodies taking an expanded role in social housing delivery; if he will be putting in place more comprehensive transfer policies to allow for families that grow in size from when they are first allocated homes. [47188/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 439. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the details of new PPPs that he proposes will play a role in the new social housing strategy. [47189/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the social housing leasing initiative that he proposes will play a larger role in the delivery of social housing, if he will provide full details of this initiative; the length of these leases; the number of landlords he expects to take part in this scheme; and the details of all negotiations with landlords in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 442. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of families and persons on the housing waiting list broken down by local authority and showing the same figures for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013; and the month-on-month increase in different local authorities over the past year. [47207/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: James Connolly will do, Fergus.

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Definitely not.

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today's opinion poll, which was disastrous for the Government parties, represents the decisive rejection by the people of the hated water charges, the parties that have tried to implement them and the Bill before us. The people are no longer being fooled. They have been fooled a couple of times by electoral promises and pledges from the Labour Party and Fine Gael, and have seen through the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that the recent prices increases in the cost of public transport will be reconciled with the need to encourage greater use of public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46344/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans he has or is aware of in terms of maintaining Dun Laoghaire Harbour, County Dublin, as a functioning transport harbour considering the Stena Line has once again been puled out of Dun Laoghaire for the winter months; if he will report on the arrangements for the transition period between now and when the harbour is brought...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most telling thing in the service plan is the comment of Tony O'Brien, Director General of the HSE, in the executive summary to the effect that it will not be possible to put in place any additional or new service developments. That says it all. Despite fanfare about increased funding, all we have done is allow the €500 million overrun and thereafter is it €80 million or...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The points have been made and we do not need to go over them again. Both Deputy Ruth Coppinger and I would like to press the amendments because a marker must be put down on the issue of poverty, child poverty in particular.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to go on but these points must be made. The last time rent caps were reviewed, they were increased by 9%. Since then, rents have gone up by 17% in Dublin. The caps are very far behind the curve. Nobody could seriously suggest, given the gap between the 9% increase in the cap and a 17% increase in rents since, that this is not contributing directly to the homelessness and...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regardless of when it came about, I am simply reading the report. Perhaps it was in the Irish Independentand so on, but that is what the report said.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They attack us too. Anyway, there were reports to that effect. Even if we accept that it was a legitimate attempt to curtail the disproportionate benefits that might accrue to the people earning in excess of €100,000 per year that would have resulted from cutting the top rate of tax, it did not do enough in that regard because the people earning over €70,000 and certainly...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is much to say on the Minister's comments, but we will have a chance to address them when discussing the next group of amendments, as it is very similar to this group. I still do not understand why all these amendments were not grouped together, but perhaps someone can enlighten me.