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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are things that the national planning framework has to make provision for. In the Bill that is before us, the Minister says that it has to make provision for the conservation of the environment and its amenities, including landscape, ecology and biodiversity, as well as archaeological, architectural and natural heritage. Our amendment proposes to add that we should include landscape...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 154 is a good amendment in its reference to "promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations". I will give the Minister one example that is pertinent and becoming very apparent all over the place. Although development is increasing, there is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On conservation, I am surprised the Minister would not accept that and I do not really get the point about where does it end. There has been a step change in the recognition that it is not just about preventing the further destruction of biodiversity and the environment, but that we have to proactively restore nature. Young people get that very strongly. We should be proactive in putting...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a signatory to this amendment as well. I find it both odd and inconsistent that we have those one would expect to be included in a public consultation like members of the Oireachtas, regional assemblies, local authorities, the Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority but then the section also includes members of the public. Why not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know why he would not put it on a statutory footing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our amendment does not exclude the addition of new bodies. To be clear, the Minister has said he is not accepting this amendment because he does not want to exclude other new bodies. Our amendment does not exclude new bodies from being listed in regulations. The Minister's wording excludes a requirement to consult the prescribed bodies that are listed. I looked at the same list and I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that but he is not required to do so by legislation, so he could choose not to consult it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The term "prescribed bodies" is just a category.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister would not be required to consult them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not say that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It excludes the Minister----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it does.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In order to solve the absolutely disastrous housing situation we are in and the human misery that is wrecking the lives of the 13,500 people who are homeless and the hundreds of thousands of young people and working people who are absolutely locked out of the possibility of ever owning their own home and who, increasingly, are leaving the country because of that or because they cannot even...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Union of Students in Ireland, USI, just held a briefing on the student accommodation crisis, with a particular emphasis on digs accommodation. I encourage the Government to read its survey. It pointed out that purpose-built student accommodation is needed, the Government has not delivered it in sufficient quantities, and many students are being forced into digs accommodation, which is...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all about commodifying intellectual property.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that for the whole group?

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I am moving these series of amendments-----

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seven minutes to speak to all of those amendments.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “ “researchers’ representative group” means— (a) a trade union which is the holder of a negotiation licence under Part II of the Trade Union Act 1941, or (b) any independent and self-governing body, recognised by a higher education provider, research body or by the...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First of all, in terms of not having a representative board, I would like to point out that the European Research Council has a different approach. Researchers and scientists from all disciplines are in the driving seat. The people whom the Minister described as having competency are told what to do by the researchers and scientists. That is the way it should be, in my opinion. I disagree...