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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Luxembourg. [27847/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times Cabinet committee A (Economy) met in 2019. [27846/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Recreational Facilities (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration will be given to becoming involved and funding the supervised playground at Library Road, Dún Laoghaire (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Development Projects Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the community projects supported by her Department; the reason for the projects receiving funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the habitual residency clause for social protection for Northern Ireland in view of the commitment to no hard border on the island of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30115/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála Data (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rate of overturning decisions of planners by An Bord Pleanála since 2011; if the planner upheld the planning authorities decision; the details of each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30139/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I only have a short time, so I will fly through my questions. The climate action plan states: For most areas of environmental damage, a key problem is that those inflicting the damage do not pay the cost of the damage they inflict. This is the rationale for charging a carbon price. To whom is the Department referring as the people who are inflicting the damage? It sounds decidedly...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will just read from the EU Commission document, "The agreement will, over time, remove duties on 91% of goods that EU companies export to Mercosur." It goes on to state, "The agreement will also eliminate import duties on 92% of Mercosur goods exported to the EU." That is what is says: over time get rid of all the duties.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am reading from the Commission document. The Minister can explain it to me but he has not explained it in his answer. Twenty per cent of the world's oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest. In the past ten years, an area the size of Portugal of those rainforests has been cut down. Mr. Bolsonaro is accelerating on a massive scale an already horrendous programme of deforestation. It...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, and I do not mean to be disrespectful to the Minister but that is just nonsense. There is no way to police this guy. There is no dealing with people like that. This guy is a dangerous lunatic, a climate change denier and a thug. Even if we set aside what Bolsonaro is doing in Brazil, has the Government quantified the sheer expansion of transport emissions as a result of this...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This deal is a sell-out. It is a sell-out of farmers. It is a sell-out of the environment and the battle to address the climate emergency. It is a sell-out on human rights. It is a sell-out on food safety and quality. It is facilitated by an earlier sell-out of democracy in the form of the Lisbon treaty which did away with Ireland's veto in the area of trade deals.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us opposed it and joined the anti-globalisation protesters in Genoa specifically because it would enable the EU to do international trade deals that would destroy our environment, hammer farmers and undermine human rights. Now the chickens have come home to roost. The Ministers should confirm it. Somebody asked earlier if we have a veto. The answer is that we do not because of the...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The script will just confuse people. In simple layman's language, we do not have a veto because we gave it away in the Lisbon treaty, which extended qualified majority voting to this area. The chickens have come home to roost.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I opposed it. Deputy Howlin supported it and that is why he is interrupting me.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We warned about it and protesters took to the streets all over the world. The big mobilisations in Genoa, Florence and Seattle were all about this. At the time, small farmers and indigenous peoples from Latin America were on those protests. Farmers from France, such as José Bové, were warning that this would screw the small farmer and here we are. That is the consequence of it....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like an answer to the question as to whether it is a reasonable basic democratic request to suggest there would be a border poll in the event of a hard Brexit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The likelihood of Boris Johnson taking over as leader of the Tory Party and becoming Prime Minister, God help us, is ironic. The upper class Etonian twit who harks back to the great days of the British Empire could be the person who will help to facilitate the break-up of the United Kingdom, but intelligence is not his strong point. It creates a dangerous scenario for us in that it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not agreed Wednesday's business yet.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.