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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the 400 acres of public forestry lands sold to an organisation (details supplied) in 2016 for €230 million; if this public property was placed on the open market to obtain the best value for the public interest; if not, if it was sold in a private deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9338/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Coillte lands at a location (details supplied) were originally in the Land Commission portfolio transferred to Coillte in 1989; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9340/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the Land Commission was dissolved in 1989 with 2,500 ha of agricultural land, if he can ascertain the amount of that land that was gifted to Coillte/NPWS; if so, if he will provide a breakdown by estate, area, acreage, and so on; the amount of this land that is still in Coillte/NPWS control; the amount that has been sold off;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte had provided him with its five-year business plan; if this plan included a deal between Coillte and an organisation (details supplied); if a letter of expectation sent instructing Coillte to proceed with its plan referred to the five-year business plan; if it included the aforementioned deal; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of members of the Coillte board of directors who have experience or knowledge of forestry management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9342/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will now place in the public domain the New Era Coillte Review Report, in light of the outpouring of public outrage at a deal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9343/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of businesses established by Coillte since 1989 which are no longer operational, for example, Coillte landscaping, Griffner/Coillte timber houses, Coillte Hardwoods, Coillte Christmas Trees; the accumulated debts associated with those failed enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9344/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the public forest estate, broken down into tree species and age, with all of the other assets such as forestry machinery, tractors, trucks, chainsaws, tools, and so on when the Forest Service was wound down to make way for Coillte in 1988; if he will outline what became of all the old assets, for example, forestry...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Children's Rights Alliance highlighted once again one of the most shameful aspects of the utterly disastrous housing crisis, namely the phenomena of child homelessness and the impact that has on children, on their mental health and on their well-being, and how, as they put it, it deprives and robs children of their precious childhood. The figures are stark. There are now 3,431...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach studiously decided not to answer the questions I raised. To be absolutely clear on that particular point, in the same period I did not oppose and, in many cases, actively supported thousands and thousands of planning applications and the commencement of construction, not least in areas such as Cherrywood, which is the biggest residential development in the country, or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In some cases, such as co-living, I object, or I sided with students who opposed unaffordable student accommodation. What the Taoiseach did not do, in his diversionary tactics, was answer the point about whether he will continue to allow families to go into homelessness who have done absolutely nothing wrong. Is he going to let more children and families end up homeless because he decides...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach going to raise the rent supports that are available to people, in the absence of bringing in rent controls which should be done in order to deal with these obscene rents-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to ensure that there is some prospect for families looking for accommodation affording the rents being charged by the very developers-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----who are charging these rents? That is why I oppose some of their developments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For actively supporting it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Saturday, the film "406 Days" about the 406 days the Debenhams workers were in dispute with the Debenhams company will premier at the Dublin International Film Festival. It has just won the festival's human rights prize. One thing it highlights is that the Celine group, made up of three US hedge funds, Barclay's Bank and Bank of Ireland, walked away with £315 million from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the fact that €200 million debt was loaded on the Irish company by this consortium to ensure that the workers got absolutely nothing. I took the issue with the workers-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Will the Taoiseach check what report, if any, has come back from the Corporate Enforcement Authority about the tactical nature of the liquidation which left those workers with nothing-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and whether the law was broken in the treatment of the Debenhams workers?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not get back to us.