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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 154 is a good amendment in its reference to "promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations". I will give the Minister one example that is pertinent and becoming very apparent all over the place. Although development is increasing, there is a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On conservation, I am surprised the Minister would not accept that and I do not really get the point about where does it end. There has been a step change in the recognition that it is not just about preventing the further destruction of biodiversity and the environment, but that we have to proactively restore nature. Young people get that very strongly. We should be proactive in putting...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a signatory to this amendment as well. I find it both odd and inconsistent that we have those one would expect to be included in a public consultation like members of the Oireachtas, regional assemblies, local authorities, the Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority but then the section also includes members of the public. Why not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know why he would not put it on a statutory footing.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our amendment does not exclude the addition of new bodies. To be clear, the Minister has said he is not accepting this amendment because he does not want to exclude other new bodies. Our amendment does not exclude new bodies from being listed in regulations. The Minister's wording excludes a requirement to consult the prescribed bodies that are listed. I looked at the same list and I...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that but he is not required to do so by legislation, so he could choose not to consult it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The term "prescribed bodies" is just a category.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister would not be required to consult them.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not say that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It excludes the Minister----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it does.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Other provisions allow the Minister to add to that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I extend my sympathies to the family and friends of Ann Delaney who tragically died on the streets over the weekend. Her tragic passing further underlines the failure of the Government to address the question of rough sleeping, the wider and worsening homelessness crisis and the number of people in emergency accommodation, the figures for which went up yet again at the weekend. Just...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I get a response?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I get a response?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I get a response please?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not know if the Government is going to give us the disability discussion we asked for.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit also wrote to the Business Committee to ask that the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, be willing to take questions and have a back-and-forth debate so that we can get to the bottom of the shambolic mess in RTÉ. The Government should agree to that. I want to raise another issue about the forthcoming...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how Irish medical volunteers might be able to offer their services in Gaza, or to communities of individuals displaced from Gaza, for example in Rafah, Egypt, in light of the worsening humanitarian and health crisis unfolding in Gaza; the steps his Department will take to assist individuals or groups who contact them expressing an...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up-to-date position regarding the provision of emergency humanitarian aid in Gaza and the surrounding region (details supplied); if this includes the potential for direct deployment of Irish medical professionals; if this further includes the potential for deploying a humanitarian response that is not initiated through the DG ECHO...