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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Among the industries and groups of workers in this country are the approximately 25,000 taxi drivers who have been crucified by the impact of Covid-19 public health restrictions. That will continue for as long as other sectors on which they depend for their income, such as music, entertainment, events, tourism and aviation, are affected. However, their appeals for specific assistance to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Taxi drivers have a number of simple demands, none of which have been met. They have asked for a financial package of supports to cover their fixed costs, which were estimated by the NTA a number of years ago at €11,000 a year. Those are debts they have been accumulating and they have been excluded from the schemes to support those fixed costs. They have asked for a moratorium on...

National Marine Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I objected at the Business Committee to the original plan of the Government to attempt to push through this motion on the marine planning framework without debate. I am glad we did so. It is clear the Government wants to ram this through in order to silence legitimate concerns and questions by people concerned with...

National Marine Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take ten or 12 minutes. There will be definitely eight, if not ten, for Deputy Barry.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for looking after our interests. I appreciate it. When the school student climate strikers came out on the street in this country and across the world, they shouted and had on their banners and placards the slogan "System change, not climate change!" They also loudly shouted about the need for a just transition as being absolutely critical to delivering the...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward the motion. Anything that gives us an opportunity to highlight the housing crisis and the plight of renters is very welcome. I support overwhelmingly the thrust of the motion. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and Deputy Devlin's attempts to defend the Government's position and their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change last met; and when it will next meet. [20475/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Wildlife Trust, IWT, recently issued a very stark warning about the biodiversity crisis, which is often forgotten in the context of the equally urgent crisis of climate change. It is very important for us to remember that biodiversity collapse could spell the end of our ability to live on this planet. One of the areas the IWT pointed to was the critical importance of the marine...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the relevant project?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the legacy project?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet.. [21777/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should answer the question raised by Deputy Barry, and earlier by Deputy Paul Murphy, on chosen representatives of ESB technicians being recognised by the ESB, a semi-State body, and on respecting the right of people to choose their own representatives in a legitimate dispute about outsourcing. The Taoiseach should intervene in this regard as a matter of urgency. I want to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach get on to the Minister about it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The violent scenes in the North over recent weeks were a worrying reminder of how the institutionalisation of sectarianism can lead to these sectarian outbursts. If we are to challenge that and achieve the unity of this island and the end of partition, and undermine the conscious stirring-up of sectarianism by forces such as the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, we have to offer a better...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [23265/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with transport will next meet. [23266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an organisation (details supplied) and its associated sports received 40% of all public sports funding in 2020 from Sport Ireland; if there is only 3% participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22827/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is oversight of the way that Sport Ireland calculates the distribution of funding between sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22828/21]