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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying it is not a good thing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not force them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The countries the Taoiseach visited are very much on the front line of what I will call the escalating new Cold War tensions between the expanded NATO and Putin and his bloc, as it were. It is worth noting that the Balkans is the crossroads of competing empires. Because of that, it was the place where the First World War began, and historically it has been so. These empires are banging up...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chinese regime is a brutal, totalitarian regime. It has engaged in across-the-board suppression of any dissent and wholesale persecution of certain groups. The Uyghurs were mentioned. In fact, it has been suggested that the Uyghurs are victims of a possible genocide and certainly victims of a really brutal suppression of an entire national and ethnic group. Did the Taoiseach raise...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to the western Balkans. [2796/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his meeting with the President of China. [6660/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2797/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a fundamental problem with the World Economic Forum as a gathering where the world's most profitable and richest companies and billionaires rub shoulders with politicians from around the world, primarily to pursue their own interests rather than the wider interests of society. One thing of interest I notice was that Hines, the wealth and asset management company and owner of a very...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion to discuss SMEs and the supports they need. The first thing I want to do is to advocate on behalf of the 26,000 small enterprises who are the taxi drivers of this country. They are very concerned, at the moment, about moves to deregulate the taxi industry that are being spearheaded by some other SMEs that - do not get me wrong -...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there has been an increase in the amount of ammunition for automatic rifles expended at the Curragh and the Glen of Imaal army ranges since the beginning of 2021; and whether any of this ammunition was used for training soldiers from NATO countries. [6786/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To which amendment is the Deputy speaking?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Deputy talking about the planning statement?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have submitted a number of amendments on this grouping dealing with biodiversity, or the lack of reference to biodiversity, in the national planning statements and elsewhere in the Bill. I will just add to some of the points that have been made. As our amendment suggests, biodiversity and the protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity is the poor relation of the climate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes I know but I have not said a word up now and no one else was pulled up on time. We need notice in advance of Report Stage with significant lead in time to Report Stage around the Government outlining its amendments to this Bill. We should not get the Government amendments on the Report Stage of the Bill just before Report Stage, where again we are grappling to catch up. There needs...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this amendment No. 410?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 242.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have tabled this amendment as well. Apologies for missing Deputy Ó Broin's contribution. Again, it seems like an obvious omission, that is, for the requirement in a development plan to prepare a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage, not to include special amenity area orders and the identification of areas where such orders would be beneficial for the community or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That might affect how we would put this into the Bill or the way in which we would put forward the amendment. It would not negate the central point that the special amenity areas should be part of such a strategy and should be required in the identification of such areas as part of a development plan. Is that not the case?