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Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Fitzmaurice, Wallace and Tom Fleming. As the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, is aware, ALONE has stated the waiting list for nursing home places is spiralling out of control. Those are pretty dramatic comments. The waiting lists are completely unacceptable for elderly people who are trying to get into nursing home care. I am aware from anecdotal evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Prasifka makes an important point because in some debates the bogeyman of frivolous complaints has been raised and some of us have suggested this is a red herring. Regarding complaints that are not upheld, I take the point about people not understanding the products they bought. Some people might say financial service providers should take greater responsibility to explain things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ombudsman's office for its report and submission. Am I right in saying there have been approximately 6,000 complaints this year - 3,000 in the first quarter and 3,000 in the second?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I meant for 2013.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The biggest bloc of complaints is in the insurance sector and the second in banking. Is there a pattern to the complaints in these two areas? Are many complaints of a similar type?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Between 70% and 80% of complaints are not upheld, the bulk of which would be in the areas covered in the previous question. Why were they not upheld? Is it because they are settled, because they are frivolous or the Ombudsman cannot prove the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that 25% of the total number of complaints?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Financial Services Ombudsman (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a separate block in the graph.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Time is running out. I appreciate the points Mr. O'Sullivan is making, but I strongly suspect that people who are in extreme financial difficulty - those who have been worst hit by the economic crisis, unemployment and very low incomes - are probably burying their heads in the sand because they know that the bank has nothing to offer them and that they are facing the prospect of their homes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this week New Beginning made a proposal outlining that it had investors behind it where they would buy up many of the really troubled mortgages in arrears and they would be able to offer solutions such as mortgage to rent to keep people in their homes by hook or by crook in a way that the banks seemed to be unable to do. How can it do this? While what it is doing would not be my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one last one-line question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives of Permanent TSB for attending. From its figures presented to us, 179 people have had properties repossessed. In 195 more cases, the bank has got a judgment for repossession. There is then a whopping 3,945 cases in which court proceedings have been initiated. Notwithstanding that the number of people in arrears over 90 days is falling, the bank still has large...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be given the necessary rehabilitation to enable a return home. [43444/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (12 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 160. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the water infrastructure system on a county basis, in terms of the amount of the water system consists of lead piping and the amount which consists of asbestos piping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43378/14]

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The unprecedented popular rebellion seen on the streets in recent weeks was focused on the issue of water but in fact was an accumulation of all the anger and bitterness against six years of injustice and unfairness. Much of this was centred around some of the most vulnerable sections of society being absolutely savaged with brutal cuts. I refer to lone parents, people dependent on rent...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are doing it.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are blue in the face from doing it.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no point in the Minister’s reading off the rulebook for public contracts when it is not working. If it was, these workers would not be out for 11 weeks and would not be in here today. The Minister mentioned self-declaration. That is an absolute joke. The basis on which Rhatigan is able to undercut other bidders for these contracts is by playing fast and loose with the...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers at the centre of this dispute are in the Visitors Gallery. To be honest, the most fruitful thing that could come out of the short time we have is for the Minister to agree to meet those workers to hear for herself the story they have relayed to us which has left them out on the picket line outside the Kishoge site for the past 11 weeks. What is going on there is an absolute...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform last met and the schedule of upcoming meetings. [35198/14]