Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

459. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost in 2017 of increasing basic social protection payments by €10 per week. [27523/16]

Carer's Allowance Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

460. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost in 2017 of paying a full PRSI stamp for those in receipt of the carer's allowance. [27524/16]

Local Authority Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

511. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the cost of restoring staffing levels throughout local authorities to 2008 levels. [27495/16]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

512. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the cost of the restoration of pay and conditions to public servants via the immediate repeal of all financial emergency measures in the public interest measures. [27496/16]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

513. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the cost of ensuring that all public servants are paid on the same salary scale as their counterparts employed prior to 2010. [27497/16]

Public Sector Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

514. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the cost of the full restoration of pensions to public servant pensioners via the immediate repeal of all financial emergency measures in the public interest measures. [27498/16]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

515. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the cost of ensuring that all public servants are being paid the minimum living wage of €11.50 per hour or above. [27499/16]

Departmental Budgets

Richard Boyd Barrett

755. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the details of the increase to the health budget needed in 2017 to take into account the changing demographics and the rising costs in health care. [27477/16]

Hospital Beds Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

756. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost increase required to bring acute hospital bed numbers to EU average levels of 4.8 per 1,000. [27478/16]

Hospital Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

757. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost implications of increasing hospital staffing levels by 1,000 more nurses and 250 more hospital consultants in 2017. [27479/16]

Primary Care Strategy

Richard Boyd Barrett

758. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of providing free primary care for all. [27480/16]

Primary Care Strategy

Richard Boyd Barrett

759. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of including categories of treatment (details supplied) in free primary care for all. [27481/16]

Home Care Packages Expenditure

Richard Boyd Barrett

760. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of providing home care packages as a demand-led service rather than as a budget constrained service. [27482/16]

Mental Health Services Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

761. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of increasing staffing of mental health services to fully comply with numbers set out in A Vision for Change and including demographic changes since 2006. [27483/16]

Prescriptions Charges

Richard Boyd Barrett

762. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing drug prescription charges. [27484/16]

Ambulance Service Response Times

Richard Boyd Barrett

763. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of ambulances reaching the transit times set down by the HSE 100% of the time. [27485/16]

Hospital Charges

Richard Boyd Barrett

764. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing accident and emergency and hospital overnight charges. [27486/16]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

769. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of increasing forestry coverage to 20% over the next 20 years; and the cost of year one of this programme in 2017. [27506/16]

Energy Efficiency

Richard Boyd Barrett

866. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of rolling out a fully financed retrofitting programme to bring houses to passive standard of energy efficiency with plans for 10,000 units in 2017. [27505/16]

Departmental Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

867. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will end direct State subsidies and grants in any form to developers and builders involved in building private speculative housing for profit; and the projected savings that this would bring. [27507/16]

Public Transport Subsidies

Richard Boyd Barrett

924. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase State funding for public transport towards the European average figure by increasing the public service obligation levy to Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus and Irish Rail initially to the figures for 2007-8. [27508/16]

School Transport Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

925. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of providing free public transport to all primary school children nationwide. [27509/16]

Rail Network Expansion

Richard Boyd Barrett

926. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of completing the western corridor rail route. [27510/16]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Richard Boyd Barrett

965. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projected annual cost of providing free universal access to child care for all children from birth. [27511/16]

Child and Family Agency Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

966. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projected cost in 2017 of eliminating the waiting lists for child social workers and providing a dedicated social worker to every child in State care. [27512/16]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Richard Boyd Barrett

967. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of providing a third free early childhood care year. [27513/16]

Tax Credits

Richard Boyd Barrett

212. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance to review the single person child carer credit, SPCCC, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24585/16]

Housing Assistance Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

578. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if housing assistance payment tenancies will be extended to more than two years, which is a very short period of time and not in line with sustainable tenancies; the reason the payment is stopped to the landlord with no recourse if the tenant does not pay their portion of the rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24793/16]

Local Authority Management

Richard Boyd Barrett

247. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the department of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council charged with designating streets or properties as not being suitable for wheelie bin collections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23373/16]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

14. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. [22496/16]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

19. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he has met or plans to meet with the new Prime Minister of Britain and the issues he will raise at any such meeting. [22494/16]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

28. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to provide details of any new Cabinet committees he is planning. [22770/16]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

41. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific plans she has to assist struggling small businesses, particularly in towns that have felt the adverse effects of the proliferation of large multinational retail chains; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22777/16]

Corporation Tax

Richard Boyd Barrett

43. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation whether the Government's decision to oppose the European Union proposal to introduce public country-by-country reporting for large multinational companies was purely on the grounds of subsidiarity; if so, if the Government now proposes to introduce these measures itself at a national level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17502/16]

Harbour Authorities

Richard Boyd Barrett

40. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in his deliberations on the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour, he will be taking into account the series of questions that were raised with his predecessor with regard to anomalies in payments to the chief executive and a board member of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22477/16]

Ports Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

86. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe he envisages for the transfer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour in line with the Harbours Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22476/16]

Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme Appeals

Richard Boyd Barrett

400. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports available to a person who cannot work due to illness in order to pay their mortgage in the absence of the mortgage interest supplement which is being phased out (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21966/16]

Disease Awareness

Richard Boyd Barrett

628. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will consider placing signs in places of recreation where ticks are prevalent in the Dublin area and other counties to raise awareness of Lyme disease as per the Health Protection Surveillance Centre campaign in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22277/16]

Dublin Airport Authority

Richard Boyd Barrett

845. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the proposed night flights that are to be redirected over south Dublin on runway 16/34 from September 2016 for a year are acceptable and necessary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22571/16]

Job Retention

Richard Boyd Barrett

906. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to encourage workers to stay here, in view of emigration figures still running at 23,000 persons, per annum. [20699/16]

Disability Allowance Appeals

Richard Boyd Barrett

111. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who has been awarded a disability allowance on appeal, can have the award backdated to March 2015 rather than January 2016 as has been decided by the appeals office. [21746/16]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

155. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given priority for special footware; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/16]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

2. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on any issues he raised and any bilateral meetings he attended at the European Council meeting. [19428/16]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

3. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the European leaders he has talked to or met since the result of the UK exit referendum. [19429/16]

Fishing Industry

Richard Boyd Barrett

53. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 8 June 2016, if he will consider watching the film referred to (details supplied); his views on the matters raised in the film; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21328/16]

Climate Change Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

75. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role he believes Coillte Teoranta should have in helping Ireland play its part in achieving targets for CO2 reduction following the Paris climate summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21327/16]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Richard Boyd Barrett

109. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to a person who wishes to complete a nursing degree (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21401/16]

Home Help Service

Richard Boyd Barrett

62. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the reason when a person is in need of home help hours and is awarded the hours these hours cannot be accessed due to a lack of availability among private care companies that are recommended by the Health Service Executive; the alternatives in place to ensure that the much-needed hours are made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20704/16]

Misuse of Drugs

Richard Boyd Barrett

68. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if there is evidence available that the rescheduling of benzodiazepines or ​Z​ drugs could​ prevent the misuse of dangerous or harmful drugs; the specific requests the Garda made to him regarding the rescheduling of these drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20705/16]

Tax Code

Richard Boyd Barrett

202. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance his plans to raise the threshold of inheritance tax of €280,000 and if so when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20863/16]

School Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

255. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 14 June 2016, the reason his response and the decision of the board fail to take into consideration the health and safety issues raised by the chairperson of the board in relation to the very small size of the classroom (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20744/16]

Jobseeker's Allowance

Richard Boyd Barrett

344. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered if the equal rights of young persons are being infringed by there being three different rates of jobseeker's allowance dependent on age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14826/16]

Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme Eligibility

Richard Boyd Barrett

410. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) has had a mortgage interest supplement ceased as of March 2016 when the payment is not being discontinued until 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21336/16]

Health Services Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

548. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will liaise with the Minister responsible for community affairs, in the interests of the health and welfare of children and young persons, to achieve the reinstatement of the Oasis youth outreach project for vulnerable teenagers in the disadvantaged Monkstown Farm area of Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, which recently had its funding cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14825/16]

Abortion Services Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

549. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health his views regarding whether women's rights are being vindicated, given the findings of the UN Human Rights Committee in regard to Ireland’s abortion laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17149/16]

Hospital Consultant Recruitment

Richard Boyd Barrett

577. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if St. Vincent's hospital in Dublin 4 applied for additional funding for a dedicated sarcoma specialist doctor over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21142/16]

Arts Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for the arts to the European Union average of 0.6% of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19850/16]

Departmental Legal Cases

Richard Boyd Barrett

64. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to publish all advice from the Attorney General and any other State and semi-State body or agency which informed her decision to appeal the historic landmark decision of a High Court Judge (detailed supplied) to designate the Moore Street battlefield site in Dublin 1 as a national monument; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19849/16]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

22. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for renewing the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation, given recent reports that Ireland is the European Union's fastest growing economy; if he had discussions prior to this renewal with the Department of Finance on alternative revenue streams to replace the €2.2 billion that public sector workers contribute to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20100/16]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

24. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his rationale for renewing the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation, given recent reports that Ireland is the European Union's fastest growing economy; if he had discussions with the Department of Finance prior to this renewal on alternative possible revenue streams to replace the €2.2 billion that public sector workers contribute to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19754/16]

Public Sector Pensions Levy

Richard Boyd Barrett

35. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider speeding up the restoration of the public service pension so that pensioners revert to their pre-financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation pensions by 1 January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/16]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

38. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will end the new entrants pay differential across the public sector given the expanding economy and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19756/16]

Public Sector Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

64. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend full and equal pension rights to public sector workers who identify as LGBTI and allow them to upgrade their pensions to spouse and children pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19753/16]

School Patronage

Richard Boyd Barrett

109. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether separate religious instruction is immediately necessary to allow for children not of the patron's faith to attend their local national school; the steps he will take to ensure this is in place for enrolments in 2016 given the report of the constitution review group, 1996, as repeated in the report of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector, 2012, indicating that religious instruction in national schools must be carried out separately to conform with the Constitution and that this must be changed to allow for multiple religious denominations in all national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20082/16]

Homeless Accommodation Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

113. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that a person (details supplied) is given suitable accommodation for a family, given that the unreliability of the self-accommodation system is incredibly difficult for the family who are moving around. [19934/16]

Social Welfare Benefits

Richard Boyd Barrett

129. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person (details supplied) who is out of work due to illness and who is in receipt of payments under the disability allowance scheme and the living alone allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19932/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Richard Boyd Barrett

31. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the meeting he had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Ms Theresa Villiers, in the wake of the result of the United Kingdom exit referendum. [19431/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Richard Boyd Barrett

33. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the numbers of United States of America troops and military hardware that passed through Shannon Airport during the period 2001 to date 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19430/16]

Referendum Campaigns

Richard Boyd Barrett

67. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the constitutional referendums he will hold over the period of this Government. [17146/16]

Property Services Regulation

Richard Boyd Barrett

72. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if property management companies are regulated; if not, her plans to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19204/16]

School Curriculum

Richard Boyd Barrett

219. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put Mandarin on the curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19656/16]

Waste Disposal Charges

Richard Boyd Barrett

241. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the use of bin tags in houses that are unable to have wheelie bins will be affected by the new waste management legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/16]

Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria

Richard Boyd Barrett

259. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is assessing payments under the disability allowance scheme and the family income supplement scheme for rent purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19582/16]

Home Help Service Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

453. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for extra hours under the home help scheme, including when he will make a decision on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19127/16]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Richard Boyd Barrett

469. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19213/16]

Local Authority Housing Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

56. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to increase funding for capital expenditure for house building to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13011/16]

Planning Issues

Richard Boyd Barrett

173. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the legislation relating to the maintenance of privately owned trees when they endanger the private property of another person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18057/16]

Housing Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

188. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce rent to buy schemes or other affordable house purchase schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18140/16]

Local Authority Housing Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

222. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his detailed funding plans for 50,000 local authority houses; if he envisages that all of these houses will be managed by local authorities given the recent Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18450/16]

Local Authority Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

223. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the home acquisition programme, by homes purchased by local authorities, by amount paid, by amount invested in homes before letting them, by homes managed by local authorities, for each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18451/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

258. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is assessing payments under the disability allowance scheme and the family income supplement scheme for rent purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18042/16]

Respite Care Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

370. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health why he has reduced the respite service provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17972/16]

Road Safety

Richard Boyd Barrett

516. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will legislate for seat belts on public buses; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18088/16]

State Aid Investigations

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if the State expended public money on legal or other services; if so, the amount, in the context of the current European Union investigation into a company's tax dealings (details supplied) here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17505/16]

Corporation Tax

Richard Boyd Barrett

39. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he intends to take action to tackle corporate tax loopholes and address the very low effective tax rate being paid by many large corporations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17503/16]

Property Tax

Richard Boyd Barrett

51. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he is considering abolishing the local property tax and reverting to the direct funding of local authorities through progressive taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17504/16]

Corporation Tax

Richard Boyd Barrett

57. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance what he will do if the European Commission decides in the next month, as is being reported, that a company's tax dealings (details supplied) breached state aid rules; if he will recover the estimated €17 to €19 billion in unpaid corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17501/16]

Insurance Industry Regulation

Richard Boyd Barrett

87. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether motor insurance companies are operating a regime of age discrimination with increased premiums for the young and the old and whether such discrimination is illegal under the Equal Status Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17806/16]

Public Sector Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

200. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for reversing the public service pension reductions introduced during the crisis in line with the Fine Gael election manifesto; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17807/16]

Direct Provision System

Richard Boyd Barrett

37. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the system of direct provision, including a detailed timeline; if the human rights of asylum seekers are being vindicated under the current system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17148/16]

Burial Grounds

Richard Boyd Barrett

139. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to outline Glasnevin Trust's system of appointing members to its board; and his views on this system and whether it is in line with best practice. [17422/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Richard Boyd Barrett

4. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach his plans to campaign in Britain on the referendum on a British exit from the European Union. [17144/16]

Northern Ireland

Richard Boyd Barrett

7. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the status of the next British-Irish Council meeting. [16863/16]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Richard Boyd Barrett

31. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the division of responsibilities between him and the Minister for State in his Department. [15600/16]

EU Battle Groups

Richard Boyd Barrett

34. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of military exercises involving Irish soldiers and European Union battle groups; and other joint military exercises that have taken place in the past year, the other countries which were involved in the exercises; if he plans such exercises in the future;and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16872/16]

Defence Forces Equipment

Richard Boyd Barrett

42. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the weapons and equipment his Department or the Defence Forces purchased in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; that they plan to purchase in the coming year, detailing the value and nature of the purchase and the country and companies from which these purchases were or will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16894/16]

Local Authority Staff Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

238. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of extra staff that have been employed in local authorities and to which authorities, to support the housing assistance payment and rent accommodation scheme, and to which scheme they have been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16804/16]

Local Authority Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

239. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he received a request from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for extra staff to facilitate the roll-out of the housing assistance payment and rent accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16805/16]

Local Authority Housing

Richard Boyd Barrett

240. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide copies of memos, instructions and directives to local authorities or individual communications to particular councils in relation to all aspects of housing, including but not limited to, staffing levels, emergency accommodation, building programmes, acquisitions, Part 5 and Part 8 and allocation priorities since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16806/16]

Housing Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

241. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow all persons in emergency homeless situations to self-accommodate; his further plans to cease to limit this option to families and to cease the requirement that persons be put in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16807/16]