Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

433. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the announcement of the end to the eviction ban and his statement in Dáil Éireann (details supplied), if he will outline the new mechanism referred to; and when it will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

450. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a report on the total number of private home completions in 2021 and 2022, broken down by local authority and with the corresponding Part V allocation, where applicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13147/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

451. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline any constraints, price or otherwise to the county council's acquisition programme and the tenant in situ programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13167/23]

Schools Building Projects

Richard Boyd Barrett

608. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the reason for the expected delay in going to tender to build a new permanent school (details supplied) to Q2 2024, adding a year to the potential opening date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12314/23]

School Facilities

Richard Boyd Barrett

670. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) is to remain on a site in the 2023-2024 school year; if her Department will provide additional prefab classrooms in order to accommodate the additional number of students who will be attending the school in September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12964/23]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

671. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the accommodation plan for a school (details supplied) for the 2024-2025 school year; when An Bord Pleanála will make a final decision on the permanent school building in Blackrock; the annual rental cost for the school building in the present location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12965/23]

Employment Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

851. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if any funding for the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire has changed in recent weeks or months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13808/23]

Employment Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

852. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if there have been any contract changes between the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire and the Southside Partnership in recent weeks or months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13809/23]

Employment Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

853. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a copy of the original tender document to run the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13810/23]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1313. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the details of the HSE’s new service for the delivery of gender-affirming healthcare; if there is a timeline; if members of the trans community will be consulted about what they want and need; if international best practice will be applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12914/23]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1314. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if members of the autism community are being turned away from the national gender service; if so, the rationale behind it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12915/23]

Rental Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

97. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce any supports, such as HAP, for households who are facing eviction or seeking accommodation but cannot afford current market rents but are above the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/23]

Rental Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

110. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the eviction ban at the end of March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

123. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the final figure for local authority own build social housing completions in the four Dublin local authorities in 2022; his views that this represents success or failure in terms of addressing the chronic housing crisis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

153. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and other bodies to ensure the immediate servicing of the public housing lands in Old Conna and Rathmichael to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/23]

Departmental Priorities

Richard Boyd Barrett

8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [11360/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on immigration will next meet. [11361/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the committee that deals with higher education and research will next meet. [10251/23]

Income Inequality

Richard Boyd Barrett

96. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of an organisation’s (details supplied) recent report on wealth inequality in Ireland, which found that the number of Irish persons with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11408/23]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

104. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the companies that attended the dinner he hosted in Davos recently; the matters that were discussed with these companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11406/23]

Tax Code

Richard Boyd Barrett

108. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte/Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; his views on the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11403/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

151. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received any report from the Corporate Enforcement Authority on the meeting in January 2023 between the Corporate Enforcement Authority, workers of a company (details supplied) and this Deputy, a meeting that was facilitated by the Secretary General of his Department following a parliamentary question raised by this Deputy with the Taoiseach on 13 December 2022 regarding the findings from a recently made film in relation to the liquidation of said company; if he has not received such a report, if he will seek it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11420/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

152. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware in the course of the liquidation of a company (details supplied); if so, when his Department became aware of the pre-pack administration package put together in April 2019 by several financial entities, involving a floating charge loan of £200 million to the company's UK entity, which was subsequently injected into it but for which the Irish and Danish stores were made co-guarantors, and the use of the 12-month rule in Irish law concerning the fixing of these charges on the company in Ireland, and the fact that the liquidation of the company's Irish operations was announced precisely 12 months later on the day such a liability became legally valid in Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11421/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

153. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware that a company (details supplied) had not renewed its 36 trademarks in the Republic of Ireland in 2020 prior to the liquidation of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11422/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

154. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware that workers of a company (details supplied) were initially told the company debt was €22 million in May 2020, and in July that debt had risen to more than €300 million, and that the workers were also told that the revenues from the online sales of a website would be used in the liquidation, which subsequently turned out not to be the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11423/23]

Gorse Burning

Richard Boyd Barrett

183. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on that has been burned nationwide; how many tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from the period 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023; if this CO2 is included in agriculture emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/23]

Gorse Burning

Richard Boyd Barrett

310. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many call-outs of emergency services there were to deal with out-of-control gorse fires nationwide; the costs of same from 1 September 2022 to 28 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/23]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Boyd Barrett

385. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if a person (details supplied) who has very high level special needs and is in residential care and who has not received a full and specialised education based on their needs since 2020, will receive home tuition or admission to a special needs school which they have been repeatedly refused by application due to lack of capacity and lack of special needs facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11214/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Richard Boyd Barrett

460. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific additional supports a mother of two children with disabilities, for which she is receiving DCA, might be entitled to including but not limited to a tax credits for a new car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10841/23]

Taxi Licences

Richard Boyd Barrett

10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will ensure the National Transport Authority regulations regarding renewal of taxi licences incorporate some leeway on deadlines; if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4807/23]

Public Sector Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

103. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will outline how he intends to ensure the crucial posts across the public sector are filled, in particular in the cities, given the unaffordability of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/23]

Public Sector Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

116. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on efforts being made to fill posts across the public sector, given the difficulties currently being experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10593/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

123. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the failure of Housing for All to deliver on its local authority build targets for 2022, particularly in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

124. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the role his Department has in ensuring the progress of the commitments in the national development plan in supporting the current public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10592/23]

National Development Plan

Richard Boyd Barrett

130. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the progress of NSO 8 in the national development plan - "Transition to Climate Neutral and Climate Resilient Society"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10591/23]

Building Regulations

Richard Boyd Barrett

220. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 15 November 2022, if he will review and correct his previous response where he stated that the procedures were followed in relation to a complaint made to the Ombudsman's office concerning breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007, by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Registration Body Professional Conducts Committee, which it is believed were not followed in accordance with section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007 in that the right of appeal was denied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10798/23]

Departmental Functions

Richard Boyd Barrett

7. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [10249/23]

National Security Committee

Richard Boyd Barrett

17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the national security committee chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [10250/23]

Assisted Human Reproduction

Richard Boyd Barrett

171. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will outline what the eligibility criteria will be for publicly funded fertility care, as outlined in the programme for Government, in terms of age, relationship status, sexuality and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10381/23]

European Council

Richard Boyd Barrett

8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent special European Council meeting. [9958/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

19. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9959/23]

Constitutional Amendments

Richard Boyd Barrett

27. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for referendums, including the referendum on housing committed to in the programme for Government. [9960/23]

Energy Conservation

Richard Boyd Barrett

137. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a list of social welfare payments which qualify a person for the SEAI fully-funded energy upgrades; if he will provide a list of the social welfare payments that do not qualify a person; the rationale for same; if the scope will be broadened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9565/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

284. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of homes built (details supplied) to date in 2023, broken down by local authority. [9882/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

281. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of how he will approve grants for any State-backed forestry investment fund, given the clear judgment of the European Court in 2003 that legal persons owned and controlled by the State are eligible for aid to cover the costs of afforestation and maintenance of forests in the same way as any other natural or legal person, but that they are not, however, eligible for aid to compensate for a loss of income from agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9319/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

282. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the cost-benefit analysis for Irish forestry provided as part of Ireland’s current application for State aid; if he can assure this Deputy that the criticism of the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2018 that the previous cost benefit analysis for State Aid 2014 - 2021 failed to account for a number of factors, including the tax free status treatment of forestry, the cost of agricultural supports, and the displacement of other activities, have been fully and entirely addressed in the new cost-benefit analysis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9320/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

283. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the advances in scientific knowledge about the emissions caused by forestry activities on organic soils summarised by the Environmental Protection Agency in July 2022, if the Government has revised the value of forestry sequestration from that used in the State aid application 2014 to 2021, when 39% of the benefit was calculated to come from carbon sequestration based on an assumed value of €39 per tonne of carbon dioxide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9321/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

284. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a golden shareholder, will call an EGM to amend the principal objects of the State forestry board of Coillte Teoranta from its sole definition as ‘commercial’ to include ‘environmental’ and ‘social’ factors, as is required under the definition of ‘sustainable development’, to which Ireland is committed; if he will indicate whether it is his intention to change Coillte’s mandate along these lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9322/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

285. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct the State forestry board of Coillte Teoranta to use the same metrics as the EPA and LULUCF carbon accounting and stop its practice of including carbon embedded in manufactured wood products and saved through product substitution, which is misleading the public as to their forestry’s contribution to Ireland’s carbon budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9323/23]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Richard Boyd Barrett

286. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the 2022 United National Global Peatlands Assessment which suggests that the inclusion of climate concerns would, because of the enormous carbon density of peat, lead to more shallow thresholds for example, 10 cm (details supplied); if he will concede that a shallower threshold for Ireland than 50 cm is now required in view of this best available scientific advice and his sector’s increasing failure to meet Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9324/23]