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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken regarding a prefab at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24829/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) who requires surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24876/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Availability (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds nationally by CHO; if they are for adults or children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24883/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the provision of respite services nationally; if they are run directly by the HSE or by section 39 companies, charity services and or NGOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24884/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Funding (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the impact on respite services due to budgetary constraints in view of the overspend on the national children’s hospital; if funding for existing beds will be affected; if planned respite beds for both adult and paediatric patients that were planned to be delivered over the next five years will be fully funded or not; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in an appeal by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24878/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the different groups for their contributions. I simply do not understand the obsession with the carbon tax being imposed on households. If I understand the testimony given by the ESRI representatives correctly, it seems even though they favour it they acknowledge that it is regressive. Reference was made to a strong trend towards regression. It was stated that low-income...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What if they were electric? There are serious questions over hybrid vehicles too. Where is the analysis of all these things? Let us suppose we increased current afforestation levels from 6,000 ha per year, which is well below our stated targets, to 10,000 ha per year and the move was based on more sustainable broadleaf forestry models. What would the economic impact be? What would the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the way, that is not the case.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Dr. de Bruin wish to respond before I ask a brief supplementary question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not beyond question that carbon taxes are effective. All the witnesses have done is assert that their effectiveness has been proven by everybody, whoever they are. I cited the example of British Columbia, where the evidence shows that the taxed emissions increased and the untaxed emissions decreased. Rather than this tax being more effective, the opposite was the case. This sort of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the purchase of carbon credits to deal with the fact that we are overshooting our targets, is it not fair to say, in language that ordinary people understand, that what we are actually doing is paying for the right to pollute much more than we are supposed to? In that sense, paying for carbon credits to deal with our failure to meet targets is retarding the global effort to reduce...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those are questions. They are very clear questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I said carbon credits, not carbon tax. The purchase of carbon credits-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that not a bit disingenuous? Let us be honest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which two?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to say I find all this mind-bending. I look at a site like Shanganagh and wonder where the hell the houses are. This goes on and on. There are interesting conversations going on about financial modelling but nothing happens. I, along with the people in the area, wonder when this nonsense is going to end. I am trying to get to the bottom of this. I admit I have learned some stuff...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What rents were defined as being affordable? Was affordable purchase included as one of the considerations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not considered, however, in some models.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not understand how this can be done without having clear definitions of what affordability is.