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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 200: In page 46, to delete lines 4 to 16 and substitute the following: “(a) the building and transfer on completion, to the ownership of the planning authority, or to the ownership of persons nominated by the authority for the provision of public and affordable housing.”

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am also speaking to amendment No. 19. If we do not have a just transition, it is very possible there will not be any transition that is effective in dealing with climate change. This is something I do not think the Government, or the Green Party, which should know this, fully comprehends. If we alienate ordinary working people from the climate change agenda which is so urgent, if we turn...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. [31405/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it will next meet. [31399/21]

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will support the Labour Party Bill. We welcome it. Indeed, it has some similarities to the Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020 that People Before Profit recently introduced in the House and which, fortunately, passed to Second Stage, in that it seeks to delimit the rights of private property relative to the social and common good of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If my constituency is anything to go by, there is a real problem with the Department of Education delivering school buildings, autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units, which we know are needed, and school facilities. The latest in a long line of examples is St. Mary's Boys National School in Booterstown. I met representatives from there this week. They have made a request of the Department of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was an extension of ten to 15 years, the same as-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Paltry. They were absolutely paltry.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [31398/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's statement of strategy makes several commitments to supporting those affected by Covid-19 and assisting their economic recovery, allowing them to plan for a post-Covid future. One of the groups - I have raised this repeatedly with the Taoiseach - with a very uncertain future which has seen a massive and continuing adverse effect from Covid-19 is taxi drivers. After the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the statement of strategy of his Department. [29781/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if it will be ensured that changes to the local property tax take into account the incomes of the homeowners in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans with regard to changes to the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any engagements with the CSO with regard to the rescheduling of Census 2021. [28374/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned especially during the current pandemic that windows which cannot be opened on long journey trains are in effect a sealed off unit from fresh air and that recirculating air via air conditioning does not have sufficient filtration systems to deal with covid-19 as noted by the European Railways Agency; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason uncompleted houses (details supplied) would not be sold individually by NAMA to persons who are willing to complete the necessary work to make these houses habitable for their own use given that there are other houses in the estate that are completed with occupants who have a water connection and in view of the lack of housing; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the approved housing bodies involved in the mortgage-to-rent initiative; the banks that are involved in the initiative; the way households are identified as suitable for inclusion in the initiative; the number of households nationally that are provided for by this scheme; the terms for tenants; the duration of the lease; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 927. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if another date will be arranged for a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any private land owners have been approved afforestation licences on the same land type now being proposed by his Department as suitable for afforestation on decommissioned Bord na Móna bogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31228/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will be funding the environmental reports for the pilot scheme on industrial bog lands involving Bord na Móna and Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31229/21]