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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte felling licences in the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15196/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licences his Department must issue to the private sector each week from 1 March 2022 to 31 December 2022 in order to achieve his targets as set out in the recent licensing plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte felling licences included in his Departments dashboard for the week ending 4 March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15198/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any or all discussions he has had with his counterparts across Europe with regard to the war in Yemen and the ongoing humanitarian crisis there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14568/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been a war raging in Yemen for seven years. Some 10,000 children have died directly and indirectly as a result of that war, 377,000 people have died directly and indirectly as a result of that war and the UN estimates that 17.4 million people are on the brink of starvation. That war involves Saudi Arabia, which is armed to the teeth by allies of ours, the United States, the UK and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Presumably, if anybody in this House suggested that we should send a trade mission to Russia to develop our trade relationship, given what it is doing in Ukraine, they would get pretty short shrift from the Minister and from everybody else, rightly so. It would be similar if anybody suggested that it would be okay for any of our allies, so-called, to be selling weapons to Vladimir Putin in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Anti-War Movement, in conjunction with Saudi Arabian dissidents who can never return to their country because if they did, they would be killed, is organising a demonstration this Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance. Those involved will march to the Saudi Arabian embassy. The march was organised long before the war in Ukraine but, in a gesture of solidarity, they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Behind closed doors, there is plenty of wining among the sheikhs.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister is aware, we believe that he should use the powers he has under the Consumer Protection Act to control the price of fuel, energy and so on. He has turned his face against that. However, there is one measure I would ask him to consider. Given that he has rightly given €100 per week to hauliers as an emergency payment to compensate for the rising cost of fuel because...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems the IMF and Bretton Woods institutions are keen to rebrand themselves and this Bill seems to be linked to that effort by the IMF. The infamous structural adjustment programmes that were imposed by the IMF on this country and many other countries in the developing world or those which hit major economic crises have proved utterly disastrous because of the conditions linked to these...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the plans by Tusla to provide a women’s refuge in the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown area of County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any or all discussions with his counterparts across Europe given the recent report by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14567/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask once again for the Government to allow time for a debate on the disastrous situation and war in Yemen. The Government rightly has moved heaven and earth to debate and set out a response to the disastrous situation in Ukraine but it is stubbornly resistant to discussing the war in Yemen that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and brought 14 million people to the brink of starvation....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have Private Members' time every six months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You do not care about the people in Yemen. The Government does not want to embarrass the-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I expect sanctions to be imposed on Saudi Arabia and the apartheid State of Israel promptly following that announcement. I will not hold my breath on that, obviously. I again ask about the €1,000 that was promised to healthcare workers. The applause given to those healthcare workers for the work they did during the Covid pandemic - and are still doing - rings hollow now when the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No answer, in other words.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [14270/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned Housing for All. Does he not have to accept now that it is failing disastrously? From my clinic, I can tell him about the number of people and families coming in, most of whom are working and who are facing eviction or who are already homeless. They have no prospect of finding rented accommodation under the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme or social housing....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is getting worse.