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Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You have given me a fraction of the time you gave other speakers. Can I just finish my question? The social housing strategy for this emergency-----

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the strategy document be published? Will we get ample time to discuss it properly in the House? Is legislation planned on foot of that, particularly to deal with what appear to be the Government's plans for long-term leasing arrangements with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and big property developers?

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When?

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has not said when.

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When is the strategy to be published?

Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of the People Before Profit Alliance, the by-elections offer a welcome opportunity to puncture the bubble of self-congratulation and the stream of bogus claims of success by the Government over recent weeks. They also offer an important opportunity to get away from a nauseating media obsession with personality spats and internal factional disputes and manoeuvrings in the main...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the controversy regarding the planned incinerator at Poolbeg and Greyhound Waste, his views on whether it is now time for elected representatives to take back responsibility for waste and recycling management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34303/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of his acceptance of the severity of the housing crisis, his plans and the streams of funding he is making available for social housing; the new potential sources of funding he has identified for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34304/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 543. To ask the Minister for Defence the joint military training operations that the Irish Defence Forces have been involved in the past twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34693/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for the introduction and for the work they have done on this document. I enthusiastically support the thrust of what FLAC is trying to do. I would like to ask about how we might rectify the problems that exist. I have recently come across quite a few cases, involving the Financial Services Ombudsman and other bodies, in which the "inequality of arms" alluded to by Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does Mr. Joyce say the Financial Services Ombudsman clearly is not a consumer champion?

Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I broadly welcome the Bill. As has been said, it updates the 1955 Act and seeks to streamline and centralise the registration system, which, up until now, was more fragmented with multiple registers and registrars. It is right and proper that it should be updated and streamlined and that we should have a proper system for registration and flagging which is coherent and transparent. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Expenditure (18 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount spent to date in 2014 on weaponry; the amount that was purchased from Israel; the projected purchase of weaponry from Israel for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34573/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (18 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has complied fully with the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 and the ministerial guidelines and circulars issued by his Department in respect of the appointment of the chairpersons of the strategic policy committees of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all the contracts between Coillte and other State agencies and the total amount of funding from all State agencies transferred to Coillte since 1989; if he will provide any cost benefit analysis or reviews related to this State funding of Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35165/14]

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the question spells out, it is about supports and funding to Coillte since it was set up in 1989. The context for this question is that I favour public support and investment for a semi-State company engaged in forestry. After the meeting which the Minister kindly set up with Coillte for me last week, what came across clearly was Coillte's fairly bald statement that it is precluded,...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would appreciate if we could get the list of all contracts between Coillte and other State agencies going back to 1989 as soon as it becomes available. The initial loan facility for Coillte, when it was established and as provided for in legislation, was €30 million. In 2009, this was increased to €400 million. Around that time there was a large deficit in Coillte’s...

Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Coillte was helpful and informative. My questions are more directed at the Government’s policy and, as it is the main shareholder, to where it is driving Coillte. If Coillte cannot contribute to afforestation and increasing our forest cover, then it seems to me that it is being driven in the direction of providing industrialised wind turbines, for example. In 2009, when the loan...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wanted to throw in questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These statistical questions are important because there is nothing which infuriates people more than being told things are getting better for them when they self-evidently are not. The question relates both to the broader issue of jobs and unemployment and to different sectors and levels of pay. It is a problem from a statistical point of view if we cannot get a proper breakdown of these...