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Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Nash for tabling this motion on inflation and the cost of living. We are happy to support it. We will move two small but important amendments on the issue of introducing energy price caps and supporting workers who put in pay claims to keep their wages and income ahead of the galloping rate of inflation and rising cost of living. The inflation figures are bad enough if they...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the full report, details and responses to the University College Dublin attitudes to forestry survey for counties Wicklow and Kerry conducted by a person (details supplied). [3739/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of kilometres of riparian native woodlands that have been planted under the woodlands for water funding to remove exotic conifers that were planted too close to rivers and streams and replaced with native woodlands. [3723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been spent to rent or buy warehousing space in the UK and in general to mitigate against the negative effects of Brexit; the status of a partnership with a company (details supplied) in relation to a project; the costs the partnership has incurred; and the breakdown of the chemical composition of tricoya boards....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the continued clear-felling and replanting of 90% to 95% sitka spruce on sensitive and vulnerable upland bog sites in contradiction with current science (details supplied); and his views on same. [3726/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of land sold by his Department since 1989; the amount of forward selling of future Coillte forest harvests that have been sold; the person or body to which harvests have been sold; and if any of these sales have been subject to public tendering processes. [3727/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte farm forestry partnerships that have been and are currently subject to arbitration; and his views on same in relation to seeking to encourage farmers to plant trees on farms. [3729/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department last supplied the ESB, Eircom or other companies with utility and transmission poles; the reason the companies are no longer supplied with poles given that the ESB imports wooden poles with an average annual value of approximately €30 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3730/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of the 27,000 hectares of old woodland sites (details supplied) identified in 2001 that have been transitioned to native woodlands; the amount of hardwood Coillte has harvested since 2001, by firewood, sawn planks and saw logs; the value of each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3731/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the current forest policy review process, Project Woodland, has no provision to examine reforestation, the main forestry activity conducted by Coillte given that this is a continuation of a failed forestry policy that involves clear-felling and replanting of 90 to 95% sitka spruce impacting on approximately 50% of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the University College of Dublin attitudes to forestry survey focused on counties Wicklow and Kerry conducted by a person (details supplied) will feed into Project Woodland and the current forestry review process; his views on a statement by the person encouraging the public to respond to the survey; the average value of one...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that no records exist or cannot be found by his Department in relation to public access to information under the provisions of the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007 to 2018 pertaining to stakeholder meetings involving his Department and the Forestry Appeals Committee...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average time taken for his Department to issue a statement of facts on an appeal of a forestry licence after a request for the same from the Forestry Appeals Committee between the three schemes, that is, felling, forest roads and afforestation and Coillte licences and private licences, respectively. [3741/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the processes or procedures followed by the Forest Service Inspectorate when carrying out a post licence monitoring inspection of the felling licence in respect of tree felling licences that have been subject to an appropriate assessment under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive; the criteria or details that are routinely...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives from NERI and Social Justice Ireland. As always, their contributions have been most informative. To cut a long story short, what I am hearing is that indexing and benchmarking welfare against wages is the way to do it because if we use inflation, the less well off will see a bigger gap growing between them and workers. In addition, if I heard the witnesses...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. McDonnell answered very comprehensively. I thank him very much. I am curious about what he has to say on the energy issue, given that it is very topical at present.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the Minister of State said the Government had abolished SHDs, there have been seven new applications for SHDs just on the Dún Laoghaire side of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. That is because the Government essentially allowed an extension for these build-to-rent developer-led developments. Ironically, some of the Government's local representatives are now running around saying that...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not have the staff and the money being provided is going into general funds, not into creating new posts.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: SHDs were a scandal. They did nothing to address the housing crisis. They delivered overpriced rents to make money for developers. Since the announcement that this process would go, though, we had seven applications in December. There is murder in Sallynoggin over a nine-story construction. It is a working-class area where there are only two-storey houses but this will be a nine-storey...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government said that it was getting rid of SHDs.