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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are supposed to be a neutral country but the way in which the Government is articulating its position on the dangerous brinkmanship and escalation by two major military political blocs - NATO and Russia - suggests that, for the Government at least, there is no question of being neutral or objective but that the Irish Government is taking sides.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ironically, the Government suggests - obviously, the Taoiseach does not understand the position of socialists on this - that we are reluctant to criticise Russia.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State really does not listen, does he? Let me put it as baldly as I can. Putin is a thug over an autocratic, nasty, militarist and imperial-looking regime.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I may finish, to put to bed-----

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister of State or the Taoiseach. I wish to put to bed the nonsense that Government Deputies come out with. I cannot put it more baldly. They would not put it as baldly as that.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were out criticising what the Russians were doing in Kazakhstan last week, and there is not much action from the Government on that. I stood at many a protest over what the Russians did in Chechnya and the carnage they inflicted there and I did not see Members opposite there, so they should not try to confuse the issue. While I object absolutely to the Russians' massing troops on the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. I have charged that the Government is betraying our tradition of neutrality. It did that with regard to Shannon and regarding numerous US military adventures. It is doing it again. It rightly criticises Russia for what it is doing off our coast with military exercises that are unwanted and should stop - Russia should be told we do not want them - and for Russia's...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In Ukraine it is highly divisive, and the Minister of State knows it.

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The scandal that has been revealed in Kerry, involving overmedication, losing files and children and young people with mental health issues not being looked after properly, is not at all unique to Kerry. In 2018, psychiatrists in Wexford, including the consultant in CAMHS, resigned, saying the service was totally unsafe. Dr. Sharma said he was sidelined because he expressed concerns about...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Tests (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider the use of an antigen test to allow access to a leisure facility in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin for a child with special needs who cannot attend swimming therapy as their mother does not have a vaccine passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3152/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the arrangements he is making for refugees in a centre (details supplied) having fled Afghanistan to have family members reunited with them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to move Afghan refugees out of direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 546. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of options available to a person (details supplied). [3016/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the transfer of a child (details supplied) from Sligo University Hospital to Temple Street Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on the forestry licensing dashboard on week 2 January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3000/22]

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]