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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Coillte has repeated its contention that it cannot do anything because it does not get the grants and, therefore, can only facilitate private farmers. Of course, Coillte should play its role in that regard. Does Coillte honestly believe, however, that the number of private farmers contributing to afforestation will be sufficient to meet the targets and objectives we should have of reaching...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The short-term target is 17%. There is an aspiration, which has been outlined, to at least reach the European average. It is crazy not to aspire to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do, but with agro-forestry and the other approaches, we can do it. Is there any way around this problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I favour that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be great if the banks did that, would it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a few questions, one of which follows on from the questions on species mix and biodiversity. I would like to hear the delegates' views on the trade-off between heavily emphasising the production of Sitka spruce, because of its short-term commercial value, and developing forestry as an amenity and environmental asset. It is self-evident that broadleaf trees have a much greater amenity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta: Chairman Designate (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was hoping to ask my questions because I have an appointment at 11.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta: Chairman Designate (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I do. It follows on from the Chairman's contribution. I refer to the vision thing. My view is that we are spectacularly under-performing in terms of the potential for forestry, notwithstanding that forestry makes a significant contribution both economically and in employment terms. We are massively under-performing in all sorts of areas such as in the potential for employment and...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I appreciate the clarity of the Minister of State's response, I am conscious that the sense of urgency in this case seems to be smaller than in other cases. Some 529 people are under threat of execution.

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are Government or all-party motions not being tabled on this matter? Why are we not having an emergency debate on this issue like the debate on the situation in Ukraine that will take place later today? I do not understand why we are not taking a hard line with a regime that is essentially trying to drown in blood, or repress by means of fear and intimidation, the democratic revolution...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not.

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not a democratic election.

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what they said in the First World War.

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes; Yugoslavia is an example. Germany did-----

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the diplomatic efforts that are being made by the Irish Government to protest about the mass death sentences imposed on over 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; if he will demand that these sentences are over-turned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15394/14]

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is where the hypocrisy is exposed. Europe jumps up and down and states it is fighting for self-determination and human rights in Ukraine and that it is to impose sanctions. It claims its justification in this regard but adopts a different approach to Egypt, where 529 Muslims have been sentenced to death by mass political execution by a brutal military regime based on trumped-up...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very heartened to hear clear and unequivocal condemnation of the sentences. While this is positive, why is there such a contrast between the approaches to Ukraine and Egypt? Five hundred and twenty-nine people are to be executed by the military regime in Egypt based on trumped-up charges but there is no talk of sanctions or urgent action. If the Russians decided to execute 529 people...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Again, we are getting the completely one-sided take on this. It is absolutely true that the demonstrations in Kiev were partly motivated by the corruption of the Yanukovych regime. Unquestionably, it was a corrupt and rotten regime. It is unquestionable that many Ukrainians - in certain parts of the country at least - may look towards Europe as against Russia but that is not the end of the...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That stuff is archaic but, none the less, Europe knew that. Crucially, now in the Kiev Government, which the Minister of State said he fully supports, there are extreme right-wing and fascist elements which are dangerous. We have seen some pretty horrific examples of the sort of stuff they are doing. These people have hijacked what may be a legitimate desire for more democracy in Ukraine...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would start by understanding that there are different cultural and linguistic groups and that there is a history of tension between those groups. Any changes to the orientation of Ukraine must take those things into account if one does not want to spark the sort of disaster we saw in the Balkans. The unilateral recognition by Germany of Slovenia and Croatia sparked the civil war in...