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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just under a year since People Before Profit brought the first motion to this Dáil calling for student nurses and student midwives to be paid while they are working on placement. Today, they are still out there protesting and demanding they be paid and respected for the work they do during placement. I understand the Tánaiste said earlier there will be a slight increase for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the planned establishment of an IDA office in Israel. [53173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she plans to reply to a person (details supplied). [52266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that can be taken to expedite a stamp 4 permit for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52248/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 752. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has given consideration to granting an extension of the right to apply for Irish citizenship to great-grandchildren of Irish immigrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52647/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 863. To ask the Minister for Health the status of booster vaccines; and when he expects all over 70s in Dublin to be offered a booster vaccine. [52256/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1040. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise a student who is currently on an Erasmus scheme in Sweden who received their first vaccination dose in Ireland and the second in Sweden but cannot get an EU Digital COVID Certificate from either country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52986/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if felling licences to date in 2021 have been issued for 22,736 ha in view of the fact afforestation licences in the same period only amount to 3,418 ha (details supplied); his views on whether this amounts to net deforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53265/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The purpose of this series of amendments is to ensure that we have a proper planning approach, that is, a plan-led approach to the development and protection of our marine area and resources and, in particular, to ensure compliance with the marine spatial planning directives and the protections and requirements of those directives, which are about having a proper planning regime for managing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State giving us a cast-iron guarantee that development consents will not be given until we have plans that designate what is and what is not appropriate, which areas of the marine are appropriate for particular types of development? Consents should not be given until applications have, if you like, gone through the proper process of environmental impact assessment, full...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The public feels developers are always not one but ten steps ahead in terms of knowledge of plans. It is felt that the public is the last to know about anything and, insofar as consultation takes place, it is a tick-box exercise. It is minimal and, as we noted earlier, often happens around August or December. People find out at the last minute that they are to be consulted and there is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very keen that the people who may be listening in to this debate will understand. We are genuinely interrogating this because we want to understand fully and for the legislation to be as good as it can be. When a development plan is being put together there are people in the council department, for example, who may have developed a knowledge and experience over many years in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to hear the Minister of State's response on that. I have a supplementary question but he might answer those questions now.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. The Minister of State is lauding the public participation process he went through and I take him at his word at some level. I was not particularly aware of how it all went. I am not commenting on the process. The people I am speaking to, however, who have a concern in this matter do not understand how the relevant projects got slipped in on that basis to the national marine planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Article 9 of the MSP directive states, among other things, that "Member States shall establish means of public participation by informing all interested parties and by consulting the relevant stakeholders and authorities, and the public concerned, at an early stage in the development of maritime spatial plans". It goes on to state "Member States shall also ensure that the relevant...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an impressive document. Well done to the officials. We have a sense of humour too.