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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that the staffing levels are unsafe.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Either you can meet the targets or you cannot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses are probably not going to acknowledge this point but it is worth saying, because it is what everybody else thinks, that it is not just about what the State could have sold the loans at had we held on to them but it is also about what it could have used them for instead of selling them. To my mind this is the biggest scandal of it all. The State had the biggest property...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much of that is public and affordable, or is it mostly private?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know Senator Higgins wants to get in, but I will very quickly ask another question. Mr. Carville stated that approximately 6,000 units are in the long-term category.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will conclude on this point. It is crazy that we are being asked to look at this legislation before we know all the detail of precisely what is happening with what NAMA has, what could be done with it and the options that are available. All of it should be maximised to deliver social and affordable housing as quickly as possible. It should be serviced and whatever needs to be done to it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Carville's response is appreciated. I thank Senator Higgins for allowing me to conclude.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to raise the advisory price limits on the tenant-in-situ scheme for county councils, due to the inflation of house prices in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36783/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of raising the current social housing income eligibility thresholds by €10,000 per year nationwide, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the latest figures on the number of households on the HAP and RAS schemes and rent allowance respectively; the cost of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households currently privately renting their principal residence; the number of those households that are within the social housing income limits; the number within the cost rental income limits; the number above those limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36742/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ and the tenant-in-situ programmes, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the retrofit programme, broken down by local authority, with details of the numbers completed and the plan to retrofit all homes in State stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will put in place a solar panel support scheme for local authority tenants, administered by councils where the council takes on the upfront costs and tenants pay back over a period of time while their bills reduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new creche in Dún Laoghaire has delayed its opening from September until at least December, despite parents having already paid deposits; and his views on how parents are meant to find appropriate childcare for their children, given the local shortage of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the effective recruitment embargo imposed in St. Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire (details supplied); the reason for such a measure; if he will instruct the hospital group to end this embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36743/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 865. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way the legislation being introduced on 1 October 2024 regarding XL Bully dogs deals with animals that are healthy, have no history of aggression, have been surrendered to a shelter and would otherwise be deemed suitable for re-homing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36407/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 822.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 was intended to disallow a person on a probation bond from access to the social housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 858.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how co-living is defined in legislation in terms of the minimum length of stay below which it is no longer a co-living tenancy but a short-term stay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35404/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 994.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of applications and actual payment of domiciliary carer’s allowance for carers of people with invisible disabilities, i.e., autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35251/24]