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Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 12:In page 8, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:"(o) to promote conservation, expansion, restoration, and positive management of natural and semi-natural woodlands, including the remnants of Ancient woodland and ensure that management plans are put in place for these woodlands once identified, whether they occur in Special Areas of Conversation or Natural...

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 13:In page 8, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:"(o) to promote silviculture based on natural conditions using continuous cover forest planning and management using native species adapted to the site, having small scale operations and by encouraging natural regeneration, ensuring the protection of rare, endangered, and ecologically important areas while...

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State welcomes my positive attitude and I welcome his. While there are different forest management approaches and so on, overwhelmingly, the forestry sector has been focused on one system, namely, the big industrial single species clear felling system with sitka spruce. We need to move away from this system. The situation in Gougane Barra is possibly an indication of why we...

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15:In page 8, after line 35, to insert the following:"(2) The Minister has a duty to provide information to ensure the public and other authorities are regularly informed on the role and condition of forests as well as on all forestry activities.".This amendment relates to the entitlement of stakeholders, communities, environmental NGOs and so on to information on the...

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are probably on the same page in terms of trying to move the situation forward.

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not dispute that matters are progressing and that, hopefully, we have moved substantially from the era when decisions were made at the top and people were seen as a problem and an obstacle. There is improvement, but there is still a way to go in that regard. Some of the suspicions and concerns still exist, so we must move it forward and it would be useful to have a clear commitment in...

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about consultation. For example, was there consultation before the decision, justified as it may have been? Was there a consultation process?

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an example of the need for wide-----

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16:In page 8, after line 35, to insert the following:“(2) The Minister has a duty to ensure that all the people who live in Ireland and environmental NGOs are entitled to participate in forest planning and management at local and national level, ranging from public enquiries to environmental assessment and monitoring.”.

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 17:In page 9, line 13, after “guidelines” to insert “that incorporate binding requirements as in section 28 of the Planning Act”.I look forward to the Minister's response.

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I tabled amendment No. 19.

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it that the Minister should not be allowed to do it?

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not? What is the problem with the Minister having that power?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has intervened to help find a resolution for CRH workers who have been on strike since 16 June over proposed pay cuts, in view of the fact that the workers have already complied with €6 million in payroll cuts since 2012; if he will outline the contact his Department has had with the workers and their unions;...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (10 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures his Department has undertaken to help resolve the dispute at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29934/14]

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the Taoiseach was announcing the new ministerial positions, I was attending a protest with about 20 families who are on the housing list. They are either homeless or about to be made homeless, or they have been on the waiting list for ten or 15 years. All of them are in dire straits. They are just a small example of the hundreds of thousands of families who are suffering cruelly....

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about our proposal about social housing?

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I never heard that phrase on the doorsteps and I bet the Taoiseach did not either.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform has met. [26751/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the worsening situation in Ukraine in his recent meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24236/14]