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- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not wish to labour this point too much but the more the Minister says the less convincing it is. This is slightly worrying. There are regular engagements with the troika and the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council during which we have sight of fascinating tables regarding GNP, competitiveness, investment levels and so on. What probably matters most to our citizens and to people in business...
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the problem. We do not get the opportunity to interrogate the Minister's legal advisers, which we would like to do.
- Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, Chairman, but as this is Committee Stage there is no harm in a little interaction. If sufficient time had been allowed for Committee Stage, we would have been able to thrash out this issue more seriously.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Three minutes remaining of what?
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am absolutely stunned. I am more stunned than I was at the start about the guillotine because I was under the impression that this was at least going to run until the close of business at 7 p.m. today. Now, we discover it is finishing at 4.40 p.m.
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely shocking that the Government is doing this. It is cynicism beyond belief. It is bad enough that we would not have got through all the amendments but the fact we have not even got to the issue of the guarantee is shocking. This is €4 billion that we could guarantee after what guarantees did to this country, and the Minister has the right to give these guarantees to...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that information as it helps put the jigsaw of what happened together. The issue of consultation will arise further on in this Bill. I am not a scientific expert. I am open minded on this and do not assume the worst, but I believe one of the things missing in regard to this is consultation, particularly in regard to the cutting down of 16,000 trees in a national park on what...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“ “Rio Forest Principles” means the “Forest Principles” adopted at The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992;”.From my point of view, these amendments are some of the most important I have tabled. They go to the...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not agree with the Minister State who said there was no agreed international definition of sustainable forest management. I have before me the report on the United Nations conference on environment and development, annex III, non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5:In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:" "sustainable forest management" means the management of forests following the definition of sustainable forest management as set out in the 1992 Rio Forest Principles;".
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, to delete lines 7 to 10 and substitute the following:"(b) to promote sustainable forest management as set out in the 1992 Rio Forest Principles, forest resources and forest lands should be sustainably managed to meet the social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual needs of present and future generations. These needs are for forest products and...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 9:In page 8, line 17, after "against" to insert "the harmful effects of pollution including airborne pollution and".The reason for this amendment is self-evident, in that airborne pollution is a danger to forestry and it should be explicitly set out that we seek to protect our forests from it. I am taking my lead from the Rio forest principles. Indeed, the amendments'...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid that was not convincing. The demarcation lines of bureaucracy and Departments should not be what inform our approach to forestry. We often hear the phrase "we need joined-up thinking" and often people comment of the lack of it in Government and in other areas. Where areas overlap and there are certain demarcation lines, we need flexibility and imagination and to remember that...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10:In page 8, line 18, after "species" to insert "in order to maintain their full multiple value".
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister accepted this one.
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister may have accepted it. Did he? I submitted all my amendments from Committee Stage for Report Stage but I note from the Bill, as amended, that paragraph (n) is included. Is the wording of it the same as proposed in my amendment? No, my apologies.
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 11:In page 8, to delete lines 27 to 31 and substitute the following:"(n) to promote and monitor the protection and enhancement of water quality and water status in all aspects of forestry, so as to ensure that forestry plans, operations and forest-based activities regulated under this Act are compatible with the requirements of Directive No. 2000/60/EC of the European...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will wait to hear the Minister of State's response before I speak on the amendment.
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That might explain it.
- Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will submit to the Minister of State's guidance on that one.