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Other Questions: Forestry Sector (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Moving to 8,000 ha still leaves us 2,000 ha short of what COFORD, the forestry research authority, has stated is the absolute minimum necessary for us to have real afforestation and for our forestry estate to be an effective carbon sink. The Brexit problem simply highlights the need for diversification away from single species and so on. That we are vulnerable in that area too-----

Other Questions: Forestry Sector (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any consideration that market conditions are leading to us failing to deliver on our afforestation programme and its role in carbon mitigation?

Other Questions: Forestry Sector (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about new planting?

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Behold the real schism in Irish politics, notwithstanding all the play acting. On the side of the landlords, developers and vulture funds, there are Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and on the other side there are people supporting this Bill, brought forward by Sinn Féin, as it would admit, as a minimum set of steps to do something about a rental emergency that is spiralling out of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to significantly increase the national afforestation programme from its current levels in view of climate change mitigation objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37725/16]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Seán Healy, Ms Eilís Ní Chaithnía and Ms Orla O'Connor. I am sorry that I missed the initial presentations, but I had to be in the Dáil Chamber to ask a parliamentary question. I thank both organisations for all of their fantastic work which really helps to inform our understanding of these important issues every year. I agree overwhelmingly with what...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me ask a brief supplementary question while we are on the topic. Does the National Women's Council of Ireland believe it would be preferable to move towards a national child care service which was publicly provided rather than subsidising private sector providers?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That would be great.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My next question is to Dr. Seán Healy. As well as the issues mentioned, I welcome his reference to the fiscal rules and the need to address them. Will he elaborate on the changes needed in that regard? I wholeheartedly agree with his general comments. Does he agree that EU state aid rules are also a major problem? They are related to the fiscal rules in that they emanate from the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the state aid rules, as a linked issue?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This legislation is directed towards trying to deal with the housing crisis and at the beginning of any discussion on that crisis, we must start by reminding ourselves of the human reality. It came home again in the past week when a man in Dundalk died on the street as a result of exposure to the cold. It is almost two years to the day since Jonathan Corrie died close to the entrance of...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One can get many students into small spaces and there is much money to be made in that. Many people can be put into hotels and there is much money to be made in that as well. There is not as much money to be made in building decent and affordable residential property. Such people go where the money is and the Bill will still encourage them to do so rather than delivering social and...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Gino Kenny on his fantastic work on this Bill. I would also like to mention the members of his back-office team who have put a great deal of work into it. I am very proud of the Deputy and of the fact that we are here to do something that will benefit many people and alleviate the suffering they are going through. I thank the other political parties that have facilitated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 453 of 5 July 2016, if home help will be provided as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37963/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives he will put in place in view of the fact that orthodontic surgery at St. James's hospital is no longer taking referrals from Loughlinstown hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37962/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); the reason this person's family were told that the person was next on the list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital, NRH, and then subsequently told the person was no longer on the list without explanation; the reason the hospital is offering to do rehabilitation in situ when previously it...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is right, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met. [36050/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What discussions, if any, is the committee having on strategic development zones? I had a briefing yesterday at Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on the Cherrywood strategic development zone and what is, in effect, the building of a new town in south Dublin in my own constituency. This morning I was at a meeting of the Irish Glass Bottle Site Housing Action Group, which was...

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the person or bodies overseeing wind farm development across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38629/16]