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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. That is later.
- Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Ceann Comhairle state which ones were physical alternatives to amendment No. 15?
- Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we not speak in the order of the amendments?
- Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought the Ceann Comhairle followed the order of the amendments.
- Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is fairly bizarre that in a Bill entitled the Heritage Bill the Government would propose measures that will destroy or threaten with extinction parts of our natural heritage. Like Deputy Smith, I would like the Minister to explain what response she has to the concerns being raised by the people who are knowledgeable and expert in the protection of wildlife. One of the junior Ministers...
- Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Wallace for putting forward this Bill. People Before Profit will support it. I thank the Deputy for highlighting, once again, the obscene issue of land-hoarding and property speculation by investors, developers and property speculators of various sorts. Indeed, I tried to do the same with my own motion a couple of weeks ago dealing with different aspects of this same...
- Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what is going on. A small group of people are profiteering on the backs of the misery of huge numbers of people. This Bill is attempting to impose punitive measures on that kind of speculation and I warmly welcome it.
- Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are doing it all over again I am afraid.
- Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What research has been done to ensure that burning in the uplands in March will not damage bird habitats as a background to introducing this measure in this Bill? The answer is none. Under the birds directive, the Minister is required to safeguard the habitats of these birds but she is introducing a measure which potentially endangers them without doing the necessary background research,...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to renew FEMPI legislation; when a report on same will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29110/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to retro-fit State buildings to conserve water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29226/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the programmes available for refugees here under the EU relocation programme for permanent housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28943/18]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all our contributors. What they have said is very interesting and it never occurred to me. We have just come from a discussion on setting up a special committee on climate change. Irrespective of whether we like it, we have no choice but to accelerate our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and the country will incur very significant fines starting in 2020 if we do not succeed and we...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand Ms Murphy's point that there is a new grade of diesel engine for heavy goods vehicles. Is she saying they are producing no emissions?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the point Ms Murphy makes about the costs imposed on road haulage operators and the difficulties that would create. I am somewhat surprised to hear that some diesel engines have zero emissions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A (economy) last met. [29395/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about precarious employment, the creation of meaningful jobs and, in particular, the large amounts of public money being put into the film industry. I do not expect him to have all the answers here but I ask him to give the matter serious consideration. Some €70 million per year is put into the film industry through tax relief and film board grants. At a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a question about the film industry.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or raise it through-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B (Social Policy and Public Services) last met. [29097/18]