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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, there is no protection against blacklisting.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked beforehand about a response in the context of whether I got one. I am sure that is an email issue.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Missed a trick there.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a brief supplementary point. What Ms Donaghy is really saying is that the people who are funding the film producers have no obligation whatsoever to guarantee their rights. Ms Donaghy is saying people must go out to fight for their rights-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like others, I have raised on several occasions in the House this week what I believe to be a shameful proposed partnership between Coillte, the State forestry company, and Gresham House, a UK for-profit fund with a plan to buy up huge swaths of forestry and land in this country to make money. Last week, I met environmental and small farmer groups that have established a campaign using the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider the Government opposition to the provision of free public transport, given his statements effectively scrapping targets for 1 million EVs in the State by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has in ensuring the national development plan fulfils plans for expansion of acute, primary and community care in line with Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has in ensuring the national development plan fulfils required climate actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2365/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can clarify whether the Government has abandoned targets for 1 million private EV on the roads by 2030; the way targets for cuts to emissions in transport will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62727/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons the issue of a political donation to Deputy Donohoe is so damaging to politics is because it is distracting from issues that would otherwise be dominating the debate and discussion in this House this week. One of those is the utterly scandalous and unacceptable proposal by Coillte to partner with an UK equity fund to buy up thousands of hectares of land and forestry in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much every farmers' organisation, every organisation that represents communities in rural Ireland and every environmental organisation I can think of are utterly opposed to this deal. They say, rightly, that it is likely to drive up the price of agricultural land, squeezing out farmers and making it more difficult for them to engage in sustainable afforestation. As I said, it will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [61331/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The figure of 11,500 people who are currently homeless is going to continue to swell unless the Government takes urgent emergency measures to stop the flow into homelessness. The major reason the vast majority of those people are homeless is because they have been evicted; the vast majority of whom have done absolutely nothing wrong. Next Friday week, I will be going into court with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are being evicted at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have done nothing wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are people being evicted on grounds of sale at the moment, who have done nothing wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A report was done by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine approximately two years ago which suggested, astonishingly, that Ireland’s forest estate was a net carbon emitter. That was a shocking fact. Why might that be? It was because people who were interested in profit, rather than addressing climate change, biodiversity or, for that matter, supporting rural...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 29 November 2022, when a response will issue in relation to the protections that are in place for district heating customers who prepay for gas in order to prevent any disconnection of service if they cannot pay their bills this winter; and if he will make a statement on the...