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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think section 21(2) covers what we are trying to do in this amendment. I take the Minister of State's point about why the Bill would exclude certain ones. The Cathaoirleach mentioned sport, which is a reasonable point. I accept that we should rethink our amendment. However, there is a difference between what is in section 21(1) and what we are trying to do here. To say that we...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take one step forward.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. It is the minimum required information to have a proper review. If we do not take these things into account, we will not fully be able to discharge our environmental, climate change, biodiversity and, indeed, housing needs. That is the point; this information is needed to make a proper plan or have a proper planning framework. To be honest, I would add to the list when...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that amendment No. 557?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is often a tension between maximising potential and sustainable planning and development. The point of this is to rephrase it. Much of it is the same wording as the Minister's own draft. It is to just change the emphasis so there is not a conflict and it is fully understood that there is no maximising potential that is not sustainable and written and hard-wired into any notion of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief, as the point has been made. Do we have the maximising of the potential of regions and then they are subsequently screened against a notion of sustainability or do we start by saying all development has to be sustainable development and the two are not separate? My reason for saying that is because how it often works is we have developers saying what they want and then we...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a clear difference of opinion so there is not much point in labouring it. There is a disagreement here, though. I will just give one example. We got a policy passed in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown that there had to be green roofs on everything. It was a People Before Profit proposal. It was overturned by a decision of central government, which was able to override -----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to remember the details but there was some legislation that was brought in centrally, which essentially gave the Minister the right to override a decision that had been made by the council regarding green roofs so it went out the window. That demonstrates the tension that exists between the imperative to maximise the potential for development, which is what the section 19(2)(a)...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how Irish medical volunteers might be able to offer their services in Gaza, or to communities of individuals displaced from Gaza, for example in Rafah, Egypt, in light of the worsening humanitarian and health crisis unfolding in Gaza; the steps his Department will take to assist individuals or groups who contact them expressing an...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up-to-date position regarding the provision of emergency humanitarian aid in Gaza and the surrounding region (details supplied); if this includes the potential for direct deployment of Irish medical professionals; if this further includes the potential for deploying a humanitarian response that is not initiated through the DG ECHO...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person or body that can make a formal request for assistance on the DG ECHO platform; how they would go about it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9270/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) is required to complete another on-line e-vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8840/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how long the e-vetting process takes in the naturalisation process; the length of time for which e-vetting is valid; if she is aware of the issue with inputting the county on the on-line form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8843/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the significant delays in processing times for naturalisation applications and in the sending of certificates to those who have attended naturalisation ceremonies; the current expected processing times and times to allocate certificates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8841/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of applicants awaiting naturalisation applications to be processed; the number pending from 2021, 2022 and 2023; the estimated timeline for clearing the backlog and the percentage of rejected candidates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8842/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide information (details supplied) for the CDNTs in CHO 6 for each month from January 2022 to April 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9144/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 505. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the long-term illness scheme only includes mental health conditions for persons under 16 years of age; his plans to extend this beyond 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8798/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the avenues a person with a three-month visa who has arrived in Ireland from Gaza can now use to apply for citizenship in Ireland whose close family member holds a work visa permit in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9469/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what avenues are available for a person (details supplied) to access missing information from their early life report which they recently received from Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9487/24]