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Report on the Outline Heads of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Motion (23 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have read what lots of other people have said and I listened to what the Minister has said. That can be the only explanation for the failure of the Government to include binding targets or even a definition of low carbon. It is the only explanation I can find for the fact that it has rejected the recommendation to have a fully independent advisory body on the setting out of plans and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are very few of those.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47832/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the section dealing with the economy, the programme for Government states that, "The parties to the Government recognise that there is a growing danger of the State's debt burden becoming unsustainable and [I want to underline this bit] measures to safeguard debt sustainability must be urgently explored". That is a clear injunction. Many of us are extremely disappointed and depressed...

European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to repeat a question I asked the Taoiseach earlier. I did not get much of an answer. It has been asked again by other Deputies. Maybe the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, can enlighten us. Why on earth is the Government not joining Syriza and the people of Greece in supporting the idea of a debt conference? It is absolutely beyond belief. Frankly, it is economic...

European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The principle exists.

European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did you go to Palestine? What about the fate of Gaza?

EU Association Agreement with Georgia: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last thing the people of Ukraine need is this agreement. The initial discussions on it helped to prompt the conflict in Ukraine and split the Ukrainian people apart.

EU Association Agreement with Georgia: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister of State.

EU Association Agreement with Georgia: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 1991, when there was a referendum on independence in Ukraine, 84% of people turned out. Even in the industrial regions in the east, where there are mostly Russian speakers, the vote for independence was never lower than 83%. Even in Crimea, a bastion of Russian influence, 54% were in favour of independence. As I mentioned earlier, the biggest linguistic category that has grown in recent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the reason the Government has breached the terms of the Haddington Road agreement with the non-payment or delayed payment of incremental salary increases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3379/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) a Somalian national was deported to Tanzania; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3416/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 291. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has sought an explanation from the Tanzanian Government following the death of a person (details supplied); and if she has contacted the family of the deceased to apologise on behalf of the State; the steps she has taken to ensure a similar incident will not take place again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3417/15]

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the various organisations representing the survivors of the vast array of institutions that formed this architecture of oppression, abuse and persecution which ruined the lives of tens of thousands of women and children. It abused them, robbed them of their identities and histories and inflicted a crime on tens of thousands of vulnerable people and children. The damage that was done...

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I find utterly depressing about this place, this Chamber and even media coverage is that one might, if one bangs one's head off the wall for a couple of years, raise issues relentlessly, as some of us have raised this issue for the past four years, and at one point there might be a few headlines and a grandiose statement from the Government of its intent to solve a problem. For example,...

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are approximately 40. Even if they sorted those 40 houses out, that would be 50 off a list of 5,200.

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would not even keep track with the number of applicants who will join the list in one month, never mind what is happening in the country. Will the Government take some of the €4 billion NAMA has and use it to start an emergency council house programme? Nothing else will even begin to touch this problem.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Tax Administration (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Government's housing strategy; and if he will provide an indication when councils will receive notification on how to spend property tax ring-fenced for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3629/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health if extra funding will be found for Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in view of the fact that the orthopaedic surgeon has said that level of funding for the hospital has been nowhere near sufficient to look after persons in a timely way and this lack of funding is preventing a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 from having an urgent hip replacement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tendering of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme: Discussion (28 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will tell the witnesses honestly.