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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The script will just confuse people. In simple layman's language, we do not have a veto because we gave it away in the Lisbon treaty, which extended qualified majority voting to this area. The chickens have come home to roost.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I opposed it. Deputy Howlin supported it and that is why he is interrupting me.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We warned about it and protesters took to the streets all over the world. The big mobilisations in Genoa, Florence and Seattle were all about this. At the time, small farmers and indigenous peoples from Latin America were on those protests. Farmers from France, such as José Bové, were warning that this would screw the small farmer and here we are. That is the consequence of it....

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will just read from the EU Commission document, "The agreement will, over time, remove duties on 91% of goods that EU companies export to Mercosur." It goes on to state, "The agreement will also eliminate import duties on 92% of Mercosur goods exported to the EU." That is what is says: over time get rid of all the duties.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am reading from the Commission document. The Minister can explain it to me but he has not explained it in his answer. Twenty per cent of the world's oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest. In the past ten years, an area the size of Portugal of those rainforests has been cut down. Mr. Bolsonaro is accelerating on a massive scale an already horrendous programme of deforestation. It...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, and I do not mean to be disrespectful to the Minister but that is just nonsense. There is no way to police this guy. There is no dealing with people like that. This guy is a dangerous lunatic, a climate change denier and a thug. Even if we set aside what Bolsonaro is doing in Brazil, has the Government quantified the sheer expansion of transport emissions as a result of this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had discussions with his counterparts across Europe or sought reports from his counterpart in Luxembourg on plans to introduce free public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29573/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the taxi share pilot scheme being run by a company (details supplied); if he has had discussions with the company or representatives of taxi drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29572/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the person or body responsible for inspecting direct provision centres; the regularity with which these inspections occur; the parameters for the inspections; if the reports have provoked action from his Department; if so, the details in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 835. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role of the county development plan in relation to local authority Traveller accommodation programmes 2014-2018. [29196/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from the previous set of questions, the key issue is that the extra money required for the national children's hospital has, if I understand Mr. Desmond correctly, delayed the publication of the capital plan. Presumably, that is because it impacts on other parts of that plan and the Department is trying to figure out how much extra money it will get from the Government and then...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that. Will the extra money required for the children's hospital impact on the timeline of other capital projects? Will it delay them? For example, Deputy Bríd Smith asked me about the Drimnagh primary care centre which has been due since June 2009. People in Drimnagh are wondering what the position is with it. Will the overspend on the national children's hospital impact on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Mr. Desmond does not mind me saying, that is a politician's answer. His unwillingness to answer the question seems to give away that the children's hospital overrun will impact on the timeline for the delivery of other capital projects.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I gave an example. The Drimnagh primary care centre is a capital project.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not cover the whole shortfall and, therefore, the timelines for other capital projects had to be changed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not labour the point. I read from what has Mr. Mulvany said that the reason for the delays has been the need to change the timelines for the delivery of other projects because of the children's hospital. I will ask one specific question about the children's hospital. Who made the decision that there should be a private section to the national children's hospital? Given the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is extraordinary that a state-of-the-art hospital which is pointing towards the future of healthcare in this country will have a private section when there is a Government commitment to have universality and eliminate the two-tier system. A brand-new hospital will have two tiers for ever and a day. I do not accept the contract argument. Will Mr. Mulvany clarify whether that means the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are new contracts.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked how much it will cost. We need to know how much public money it is costing to have a two-tier system. It has budgetary implications.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The contracts of the consultants also have budgetary implications. In the existing hospitals where there are existing contracts, one can make that argument but I do not see how one can make that argument about new contracts. Surely there will be new contracts for the consultants in the national children's hospital.