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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the other options open for a woman suffering from endometriosis, who was referred to a pain specialist (details supplied), but was told that they could be waiting over a year for their appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26216/23]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Three days.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cowardice, conservatism, misogyny and a patronising attitude towards women has characterised the treatment of women in this country for virtually the entire history of the State. These attitudes led to the obscenities of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the Bethany homes and to tens and tens of thousands of women having to flee abroad under a shadow of stigma and shame for...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry.

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the biodiversity crisis? It is the fact that the existence of life, human life and everything else, is dependent on millions and millions of plant and animal species in a very delicate balance, such that if we wipe out millions of those species we may not exist very soon or may not be able to exist. This is what is at stake. We need to protect it. I believe the Government speaks...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are already there.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit. Does the Tánaiste think it is a bit rich that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Ministers are tearing lumps out of one another at the moment saying how much they will help the squeezed middle and ordinary people in the forthcoming budget when it was collectively Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that squeezed them in the first place? I ask the question particularly when...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My view is that we should end the poverty.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am saying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the critique of Ireland's forest programme by the D-G Environment, if the Government is redrafting the programme; where that process is at; if he will be conducting an updated cost-benefit analysis that includes impacts on water, biodiversity and environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25305/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am part of the Save Our Forests - Save our Land alliance, which the Minister may remember campaigned and protested against the deal between Coillte and the Gresham House vulture fund for Ireland's forestation programme. In January we put into the public domain a leaked letter from the Directorate-General Environment in the European Commission, which roundly criticised the proposed forestry...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Part of the reason for the outrage at the Gresham House-Coillte deal was that it was going to further expand a failed forestry model of sitka plantations. They are bad for communities, bad for biodiversity, bad for water quality, and bad on just about every level. They make our forestry very vulnerable to disease and dependent on a monoculture economy. Interestingly, the European...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the overwhelming dominance of sitka. It is an accident waiting to happen from of biodiversity point of view when we consider the pine weevil and the bark beetle that is moving across Europe and so on. It would damage the economic interests of farmers. We can see how things such as ash dieback can happen very quickly. We need to diversify the forest model in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to reform the mandate of Coillte, in line with the recommendations of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25302/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following a controversy (details supplied), the steps that are being taken to reform Coillte's approach to meeting Ireland's afforestation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25306/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is going to adopt the recommendations of the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity in terms of reform of Coillte and forestry policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he is going to implement the commitment in the programme for Government to review and reform the Forestry Act 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25303/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a pension lump sum one-off payment is taken into account when assessing someone for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25361/23]

Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was much trumpeting of the recent auction for the contracts for offshore renewable wind energy. I do not really know why there is any celebration whatsoever of the fact. What it is, in fact, is an auction to privatise our wind resources which is shameful and is a hostage to fortune. We know in many instances that the private consortiums and companies that are involved can just decide...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [24731/23]