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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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to increase European Union military spending following the recent discussions at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3929/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if proposals from NATO for increased European Union military spending was discussed at a recent meeting of European Union foreign ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3928/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is apparently very concerned about the Chief of Staff meeting with the Russian ambassador. I wonder would he be as concerned if he met with the US ambassador or the head of NATO. I say that because I am concerned that the Minister attended a conference - maybe he will confirm this - in Brest, France, this month with EU foreign ministers, where he discussed the further project...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This country is supposed to be neutral. That is, frankly, laughable, when you consider we have allowed Shannon Airport to be used again and again by the US military to prosecute brutal, murderous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want to know what neutrality means when the Minister goes to a conference in Brest where we discuss the French project, which is a major European powers project to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a very strange definition of neutral. Yesterday, the Minister expressed concern because the Chief of Staff met the Russian ambassador. To me, neutral would mean that he would express similar concern if the Chief of Staff met the US ambassador or the head of NATO or at the fact that leading powers inside the European Union are looking for and, indeed, have achieved closer integration...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is the Minister kidding? NATO is not some sort of protective entity. Its rationale, if it ever had any, disappeared at the end of the Cold War. At that time, people like James Baker, Secretary of State of the US, said that there would not be an eastward expansion. I reiterate that I believe Mr. Putin is thug. He is dangerous. He has done horrendous things in Chechnya and Kazakhstan....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has consistently defended the role of big property investment funds by saying that they could contribute to addressing the housing crisis and delivering the famous supply. Last week, a crowd called Occu, acting on behalf of a group called Haliday, advertised build-to-rent apartments. These are two blocks, Cualanor, in Dún Laoghaire. One young woman I know, who is facing...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We certainly need radical reform of further and higher education. Therefore, insofar as the Bill states as its objective a desire to improve the quality of further and higher education, one could not quibble much with its aspirations. It aims to do the following: promote the interests of students; advance equality, diversity and inclusion; achieve excellence in teaching, learning, etc.; and...

Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well done to the committee for producing this document on the important issue of bogus self-employment. The first introduction that Deputy Collins and I got to this issue was on picket lines outside building sites on many a cold morning. Some of the first of those were probably more than decade ago, perhaps 15 years ago. It is scary to think about how long ago some of those pickets took...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the ongoing war in Yemen and the humanitarian crisis with his counterparts across Europe; if consideration has been given to the imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3926/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts on the increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the recent uprising in Kazakhstan with his counterparts in Europe; if he will report on his discussions in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3927/22]