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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe that is getting things the wrong way around.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a big one and it is not possible to separate the matters by saying there is forestry, which we are addressing in this Bill, and then there is Coillte, which is totally separate.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can see that is what the Minister of State is doing but I do not believe it is sustainable - to use that term - because Coillte is so dominant in this area. It is not possible to talk about having sustainable forest practice if Coillte is not in the frame and we do not really know what it is doing. I believe the Minister of State has got it the wrong way around. The rumour now is that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be heartened by the rumours.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe that would be moving it in the wrong direction. However, I still believe we should have the review. The legislation that underpins Coillte dates from 1988. If Coillte is not reviewed in the light of the concepts of sustainable forest management and good forest practice that are supposed to inform how forestry is done all over the world now and that we have signed up to, then we...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is undoubtedly correct.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Forestry was a big passion of the revolutionaries.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is good that there will be a forestry appeals committee. However, independence and composition are two important considerations in that regard. In light of what the Minister of State just said and in view of what is concerned in the amendment, I am of the view that it should be stipulated that stakeholders should be involved. Given that we are dealing with issues which affect farmers,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not stipulated, however. The matter will pretty much be dealt with on the basis of whatever the Minister decides.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not everyone is as open as is the Minister of State. That is the problem.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done what I can to flag the issues involved.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apple management should be brought into the finance committee.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, the Government will continue protecting the multinationals.

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with, on the one hand, the repeated mantras from the Government about reform, the legislation supposedly enacting that reform and the promises about the transformation of the health service, including universal health insurance and free GP care, and faced then, on the other, with the disaster of what is happening on a day-to-day basis within the health services, the overwhelming sense...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline all protocols set down by his Department for bullying in schools, including any bullying of pupils by teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12070/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 304. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has selected the consultants to conduct the review of Ireland's licensing and tax regime for oil and gas resources; the names of the consultants; the way they were selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11697/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 305. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding his planned review of the tax and licensing regime for Ireland's oil and gas resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11698/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 337. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will be available for council housing tenants. [12237/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to refurbish St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital, Grangegorman, Dublin 7. [12069/14]

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on the project to convert the National Asset Management Agency houses to social housing including the number of houses transferred to local authorities; the cost to the Exchequer broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11916/14]