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Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite frequent rhetorical commitments by the Government to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the 2015 report on emissions by the Environmental Protection Agency was damning. It showed that overall, emissions were increasing by 3.7% and that emissions have increased under every single major heading including agriculture, industry, transport, the energy industries and manufacturing. Does...

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The litany of different people responsible for different aspects suggests to me that nobody is in charge of the overall plan regarding wind energy. This is the problem. My starting point is deep scepticism about industrial wind and the emphasis we are putting on it regarding reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which are not decreasing but increasing. We produce 22% of our electricity from...

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly the point. It is an intermittent source which still requires us to have other sources. There are serious questions. Wind Aware Ireland, of which, excuse the pun, the Minister will be aware, suggests that, at best, wind can only impact approximately 3% or 4% of our emissions. Nevertheless, a massive proportion of the public money going into renewables is going into this...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to safeguard existing fixed wireless broadband networks in view of the ongoing tendering for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38628/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether it is acceptable that in areas of the public service disclosures under the National Vetting Bureau relating to minor traffic offences such as driving without an NCT and road tax should be the basis for disqualifying persons from public service employment when those offences bear no relation to ensuring child protection as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the advice that can be given to a person (details supplied) looking for information on a High Court case that was taken against that person's company by the Central Bank in 1999 and 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38548/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Ministers and Deputies who sit on the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services are paid extra for this; if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38532/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the channels available to members of the public that are not employees to make a protected disclosure in instances in which they have a belief they have evidence of significant wide spread or systemic malpractice and policy failure in areas of the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38434/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the channels available to members of the public to raise concerns or make complaints regarding beliefs concerning widespread malpractice and policy failure in the health service, in the area of medical research and the trial use of certain drugs, or similar medical or drug related research undertaken by other areas in the public service such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 329. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a system in place whereby persons in mental health institutions who do not have any family members to advocate for them have an advocate assigned to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) did not have their social worker replaced after their social worker went on maternity leave; if he will arrange for a replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38534/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann will be removing the staff from the Sandycove and Glasthule DART station to make it an unmanned station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38752/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 482. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of permits that were issued to carry munitions of war through Ireland or Irish airspace in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33832/16]

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Go Cuala.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the due diligence that is being carried out in a company, details supplied, in anticipation of the transfer of ownership of the harbour and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38851/16]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The latest twist in the lamentable saga of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company involves the company sending a notice to the Genealogical Society of Ireland on 14 November telling it that it was to be evicted from its premises on Carlisle Pier. I will go into that in more detail. It is extraordinary that this rogue company acts as a law unto itself when due diligence was supposed to start in...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to increase my chances in the lottery.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This saga of due diligence has gone on at length and the harbour company has not signed off on the draft referred to by the Minister. It seems to want to do everything to slow down and delay this process, and our examination of the workings of a totally dysfunctional entity that needs to be dissolved. I ask the Minister to directly intervene as the main shareholder to stay the plan to evict...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Genealogical Society of Ireland has written to me asking me to ask the Minister to intervene as the main shareholder. The situation is outrageous. This is a fantastic society and a huge resource and amenity for the local people that has links to all sorts of organisations nationally and internationally. It would be unconscionable if this harbour company was to evict it and I appeal to...