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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will explain his recent comment that the sale of Coillte harvesting rights is unlikely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27875/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a report on any and all plans to reach the EU targets set for increasing renewable energy here. [26651/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will set out in detail the tax, royalty and licencing regime in place for the development of wind energy and other renewable energy sources. [26647/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will set out in detail the process through which a company such as Saorgas would establish an offshore wind farm as is currently proposed for the Kish Bank, including all the licencing, leasing, environmental requirements and also detailing the different areas of responsibility covered by his Department and other...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 567. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out in detail the process through which a company such as Saorgas would establish an offshore wind farm in the foreshore as is currently proposed for the Kish Bank, including all the licencing, leasing, environmental requirements and also detailing the different areas of responsibility covered by his...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 568. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the foreshore licence that Saorgas currently hold in the area of the Kish Bank; when it was granted; and the nature of the public consultation process surrounding that grant. [26653/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 644. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the public consultation regarding the proposed new Foreshore Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28081/13]

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No.1:In page 3, to delete lines 10 to 16 and substitute the following:“(a) in subsection (3) by deleting paragraphs (a) and (b) and substituting:“(a) charges such as rent as is set down in a national rent scheme established by the Minister.”,(b) by deleting subsection (4), (c) in subsection (5) by substituting the following paragraphs for paragraphs (a)...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Power, particularly now, is money. Everything else is just decoration. If the Government is cutting budgets for local authorities to provide and maintain social housing while at the same time saying it is empowering local councillors that is frankly a bit disingenuous, to put it very mildly. It has power over an ever-diminishing cake. In that situation only one pressure will come on those...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will. There is no question but that it will go up. The pressure on local authorities who are having their central funding reduced will increase. That will also happen with rents. Talk of Stalinism and centralisation is a bit ironic. Without getting into history, more people on the other side of the House had previous associations with Stalinism than those on this side.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister of State is concerned about having the input of local authorities on the setting of rents it could be done at a national level. We could have inputs from all local authorities on a national differential rent scheme. The end result would be a national scheme where there would be input from all stakeholders, including anti-poverty groups, housing NGOs and so on as to what...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Without that rents will increase, which is unacceptable. I will press the amendment.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The main arguments have been made. I am glad that the Minister of State accepts the general thrust of the argument, if not the actual amendments, in stating her own commitment to a harmonised and fair scheme. I seriously worry that she is leaving the door open for things to move in the opposite direction. The logic behind the amendment is to have harmonisation and I do not really think it...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore, it has been confirmed in Galway and Kildare. Deputies are nodding in agreement. This is evidence that we need to move urgently to a harmonised and fair system. If the Minister of State said the level of flexibility would be specified and limited to a 1% or 2% variation, I could accept her argument that the transition is acceptable. This, however, is open-ended. She is...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There should also be consultation with public representatives on local authorities, as well as managers. I will press the amendment on the grounds that the Minister of State is not limiting the discretion of local authorities to increase rents upwards significantly from the model rent she suggests. We need harmonisation. It has to be fair, but the Minister of State's provision leaves too...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a minor point of order before I make my substantial comments on the amendment, why are amendments Nos. 11 and 12 grouped with amendments Nos. 13 and 14? They are separate issues, are they not? It does not matter much but I wonder why they are grouped.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They seem to be distinct issues.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am curious about that. I welcome the Minister of State's acknowledgement of the issue that is the subject of my amendment No. 14. Like his amendment probably is, my amendment is a result of lobbying by people active in the area of adult literacy. They were keen that a specific commitment be included in the Bill on the need for a strategy on literacy and numeracy, given it is such an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the exemption from the local property tax for residential properties owned by a charity or a public body and used to provide accommodation and support for persons who have a particular need in addition to a general housing need to enable them to live in the community such as sheltered accommodation for the elderly or the disabled, the reason it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Conditions (12 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for re-planting trees in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains, to prevent soil erosion, in view of the amount of tree-felling currently underway. [28188/13]