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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one follow-up question on that. The current claim is that these landings are authorised because these troops are not involved in any military operations. Is that the Government's current claim?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it possible to find out if a substantial number of those planes are going to Afghanistan, for example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If they are going to Afghanistan, that would seem to put a coach and horses through any claim they are not involved in combat operations. Do we know for a fact they are going on to Afghanistan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for having had to leave to take a call. I welcome all the witnesses to the committee and I commend them for their tremendous work and commitment over many years. Ms D'Arcy may be doing this work for the longest time but Dr. John Lannon and Dr. Edward Horgan have gone above and beyond the call of duty in trying to safeguard, as they see it, and I agree with them, our neutrality...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the reversal by the Government of its proposal to impose a guillotine on this debate. Will the Minister of State and the Government seriously consider the fact that quite a number of Deputies have raised very serious questions and concerns about this Bill which should give the Government pause for thought? If the Minister of State, as she indicated, wants to reach a solution over...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How?
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does one apply to transfer-----
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every person will apply to be on the transfer list.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On what basis can these people apply?
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not getting the straight reality of what this legislation means. I acknowledge it is positive that people will go on to a differential rent scheme. It is preferable to the sham fiasco and waste of money that is rent allowance. However, the Minister of State is arguing that being in a HAPS arrangement, where one is a tenant of a private landlord, albeit in a deferential rent scheme,...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill states that one will be deemed to be appropriately housed.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 37 states that the provision of housing assistance under this Part shall be deemed to be an appropriate form of social housing support for a household.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State's departmental officials confirmed to the committee today that people in that situation will be off the housing list. She tried to cover over that by saying they can apply for a transfer but one can only apply to a local authority for a transfer if one is deemed to be in overcrowded accommodation or to have a medical priority. One cannot apply for a transfer because...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us believe that this Bill will turn a housing disaster into a complete catastrophe for social housing and homelessness. The Minister of State obviously disputes that and believes it is workable. I do not see how it can be workable, when all the evidence points in the opposite direction, to move towards reliance on private landlords who are jacking up rents and running away from...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those are big areas.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State says that people have to be housed in their area of choice, but the problem is that local authority areas are often very big. The Dún Laoghaire-Dalkey list covers a very large area. One end of it could be far away from where children go to school at the other end. While the local authority might say it is in a person's area of choice, in reality it is not...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There has to be a reasonable proximity to a school where children are involved. In addition, there should be access to family support networks for elderly, disabled or ill people. Those criteria should be written into the legislation so that a local authority would have to consider them in deciding what is a reasonable offer. Housing departments will sometimes take such matters into...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even before the introduction of the housing assistance payment scheme, there was often a significant problem where tenants sought transfers or were made offers where those offers were felt to be completely unworkable from the point of view of the tenant but were deemed to be acceptable by the local authority, particularly where matters to do with proximity to school for children or proximity...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. I only got six or seven minutes but everybody else got 15 minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does the Taoiseach respond to these serious allegations, given the state of the public finances in this country?