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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful if the Government at least owned up to that fact. It is a disastrous situation, notwithstanding that the creation of any new job is, of course, welcome. The question also referred to pay rates and sectors, but the Minister of State has not been able to give us any proper statistics in this regard. Those data are important because people in this country are of the view,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a statement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State accept there is widespread and justified concern that displacement is going on? One example of this is what is happening at the Rhatigan site, where brick layers, after not being paid for five weeks, were given €100 per week for work for which they previously would have received €600 or €700.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this the type of job creation we are talking about?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was out on the picket line at the site to which I referred.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have spoken to them and they are not happy campers.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Wallace.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While I have no doubt about the bravery and good intentions of the Irish troops participating in the UNDOF mission, I think the time has come to pull them out. I do not think we should continue to participate in this mission, which is largely irrelevant in the current context. We should not be endangering the lives of Irish troops in the middle of an extremely dangerous mess that has been...
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have already had one group-----
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The safest thing-----
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should be careful.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He should pull them out. There is no good reason for them to be there in this dangerous situation.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation is getting completely out of control. It is spilling over into Kurdistan and Turkey. God knows where it will go from here. Therefore, I see no purpose in our troops being there. I think we should pull them out.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our troops are in the UNDOF buffer area.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the rebel groups are operating in that area. Some of the conflict is taking place there. It is spreading across Syria and into Turkey. If the Minister knows where it will end, I think he is making a serious mistake. The US is escalating the conflict by starting to bomb. This will fuel a situation that is already dangerous and disastrous. The most useful thing we could do in...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no provision to provide funding in the proposed new forestry programme for the implementing of management plans for the extremely valuable and vulnerable 0.002% of ancient woodlands sites, most of which are NHAs and SACs; the further reason the new forestry programme fails to focus on these ancient woodland sites...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licence Application Numbers (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the list of felling licences issued after the February 2014 storms pertaining to Coillte woodlands of the 134 licences issued by the Forest Service in addition to the locations accompanied by the forestry inspectors' reports justifying the felling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35351/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide verification that the extraction methodology used in Gougane Barra is conducted manually using cabling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35352/14]