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Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it next year or this year?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Digital Strategy Implementation (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt that the world we live in has been transformed fundamentally by digital, social media, communication, Internet technology and so on. There are many advantages to that at many levels in our society, but it has also produced many challenges, of which online bullying is one. There is also arguably a concern about the overuse of digital technology, social media and so on. It...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Citizens Assembly (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for implementing the outstanding recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly. [14251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018 to cease issuing licences for fossil fuel extraction in view of the declaration by Dáil Éireann of a climate emergency and that an end to fossil fuel extraction is a central demand of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Controls (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the confiscation of the passport of a person (details supplied) by the German authorities while under the care of their legal guardian; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21436/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Postal Services (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will accept the address point service offered by An Post which is given to homeless persons for use in the context of claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21937/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Parliament Elections (21 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the restrictions on content applied to the freepost election literature to which each European candidate is entitled. [21659/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I noted the Taoiseach's response on the issue raised by Deputy McDonald, which I raised last week, concerning the Bartra Capital Property Group's plan for 200 boxes with fold-out beds in Dún Laoghaire. Today is the last day for submissions. Given the Taoiseach's response, I suggest that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government make a submission to An Bord Pleanála...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The unscrupulousness of property speculators in Dún Laoghaire seems to know no bounds. The latest ruse, which I would also ask the Minister to examine, sees property agents in the Cualanor and Honeypark developments, which were in NAMA before being sold to vulture funds and so on, using a very obscure calculation of people's income in order to rule out housing assistance payment, HAP,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an abuse of the system.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met. [20547/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Infrastructure is necessary for the proper functioning of our society but the Taoiseach and Cabinet committee D have failed in this elementary task. They have failed on housing, the children's hospital, broadband and the provision of schools. As a follow-up to the question I posed yesterday on Dún Laoghaire Educate Together, what does the Taoiseach have to say about the fact that more...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach and Deputy Micheál Martin in all seriousness that President Trump is a threat to our national security and global security. Any sane and sensible person would say that is true. He is brazen in his attempts to sabotage efforts to deal with climate change. He is brazen in his campaign to arm brutal dictatorships like the Saudi regime. He is brazen in...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So have I. Please do not have backhanded or dishonest-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Similarly, I would be very critical of the measures taken by the regime in Venezuela. That does not mean I think President Trump and the US military are part of any solution-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to dealing with the problems that exist in Venezuela. It is up to the Venezuelan people to sort out the crisis in Venezuela and not President Trump and the US military.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy will next meet. [21770/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If this House has any purpose at all - I suspect the public sometimes wonders whether it does - it is to see crises coming down the line and act to prevent them. This month in 2013, at a meeting of the finance committee, I suggested to representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the Government that the moves to bring large global property investors into Ireland pursued by the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not calling for more credit.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to take to increase the use of public transport in view of the declaration of a climate emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22064/19]