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Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise that I was not able to listen to much of the earlier discussion. I was busy with something else in this place. This is a very important issue. It is of particular interest in my area because there are plans for a very significant offshore renewable energy development off the east coast. As anybody who is concerned about the climate crisis we are facing knows, the starting...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, what is ESG?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand the Minister correctly, he is just saying the investment strategy could rule out certain categories of investments, which will be developed by the NTMA in consultation with Ministers. Is that what he has just said?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but at this point neither the legislation nor the Minister is explicitly ruling out investments by the fund - or is he? - in companies that might help sustain the illegal occupation of Palestine or sustain, underpin or co-operate with Israeli apartheid. He is not telling us that this is definitely going to be the case, to be clear. Obviously, we would consider tabling amendments if he...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Deputy repeat that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister envisages it, how often would this investment strategy be reviewed, or how long would it be set for?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every three years. Why would the review period not be also set out by the Minister in the legislation?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My last question is to ask the Minister whether he envisages, in what he describes as his letter of expectation on the development of the investment strategy, that investments in companies that would be involved in illegal occupation, sustaining apartheid, actions that might be deemed to be war crimes or crimes against humanity would be excluded from this letter?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, we may consider amendments and we will also consider what the Minister has said.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there amendments to the Bill?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Final Stage of a Bill.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering implementing pay caps for civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authorities (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering further funding for local authorities to support maintenance and repairs of council provided services, such as housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19520/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the new committee in his Department to deal with special education. [17962/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme office. [20457/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Here is a human story of how policy failure forces children into homelessness. Amy and her husband both work. She works in a supermarket and he works for Dublin Bus. They have three children, one of whom has special needs and has, incidentally, been waiting for an assessment for months and months. They are about to be evicted on 24 June through no fault of their own because the property...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister. [20458/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should have long ago recognised the Palestinian state. We might not be in this horrific situation had the world acted sooner on the crimes of Israel against the Palestinian people. Let us be clear. In the face of the genocidal assault and massacre taking place in Gaza, belated state recognition will not stop the horror. Recognition is welcome but it is not going to stop the horror....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. The two-state solution will never work because of the Arab population.