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Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the urgent need of a community health nurse assessment by Cabinteely primary care centre for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the board will be appointed to the new research body that is a merger of the Irish Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland; how funds will be allocated across disciplines and between blue-sky/fundamental research and targeted programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22725/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the critique of Ireland's forest programme by the D-G Environment, if the Government is redrafting the programme; where that process is at; if he will be conducting an updated cost-benefit analysis that includes impacts on water, biodiversity and environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25305/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am part of the Save Our Forests - Save our Land alliance, which the Minister may remember campaigned and protested against the deal between Coillte and the Gresham House vulture fund for Ireland's forestation programme. In January we put into the public domain a leaked letter from the Directorate-General Environment in the European Commission, which roundly criticised the proposed forestry...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Part of the reason for the outrage at the Gresham House-Coillte deal was that it was going to further expand a failed forestry model of sitka plantations. They are bad for communities, bad for biodiversity, bad for water quality, and bad on just about every level. They make our forestry very vulnerable to disease and dependent on a monoculture economy. Interestingly, the European...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the overwhelming dominance of sitka. It is an accident waiting to happen from of biodiversity point of view when we consider the pine weevil and the bark beetle that is moving across Europe and so on. It would damage the economic interests of farmers. We can see how things such as ash dieback can happen very quickly. We need to diversify the forest model in terms of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am saying.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are already there.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit. Does the Tánaiste think it is a bit rich that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Ministers are tearing lumps out of one another at the moment saying how much they will help the squeezed middle and ordinary people in the forthcoming budget when it was collectively Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that squeezed them in the first place? I ask the question particularly when...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My view is that we should end the poverty.

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry.

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the biodiversity crisis? It is the fact that the existence of life, human life and everything else, is dependent on millions and millions of plant and animal species in a very delicate balance, such that if we wipe out millions of those species we may not exist very soon or may not be able to exist. This is what is at stake. We need to protect it. I believe the Government speaks...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cowardice, conservatism, misogyny and a patronising attitude towards women has characterised the treatment of women in this country for virtually the entire history of the State. These attitudes led to the obscenities of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the Bethany homes and to tens and tens of thousands of women having to flee abroad under a shadow of stigma and shame for...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Three days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a lot of sympathy for that last point, and the desire to torture a human being in person. I thank the witness for the very informative, educational contributions because it is all new to me. There is so much jargon that my head is spinning already. I will try to understand a little bit more with a few questions. For the authorised push payments, do people get reimbursed currently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the idiot's guide, as it were, why would a person not get reimbursed? What are the circumstances that determine whether a person gets reimbursed or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the difference? Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the unauthorised push payments, regardless of whether the money is gone at the other end, the bank reimburses. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I will catch up with a full understanding of it. The reason, in authorised versus unauthorised payments, banks do not automatically make the reimbursement is because they are in a way saying that there is a bit of culpability on the part of the person because they did authorise the payment, even if the person was defrauded and they did it believing this, that or the other. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so I understand, I gather from Deputy Doherty's earlier contribution that in the UK, it happens in either case. Is that correct?