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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I intend to travel to Fermanagh to protest at the G8 summit later this month.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In addition, I will speak at one of the alternative summits, in Belfast, where the policies of the G8 will be critiqued on the day before the summit.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very concerned, as are others who intend to participate in these protests, about the enormous hype in terms of potential security threats surrounding the summit. I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach is echoing some of this narrative by alluding to possible threats from protesters. He referred to smashed windscreens, for example.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach threw it into the narrative.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that a broken windscreen does not scream with agony in the same way as does a child who is blown to pieces by a drone weapon deployed by the United States in Afghanistan?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us get these matters in proportion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no comparison between an unmanned drone blowing an innocent child to pieces and a broken piece of glass. The reason people are protesting with peaceful intent is that they find it stomach-churning that the leaders of the most powerful nations in the world would talk about peace and global justice while at the same time deploying these types of weapons to such devastating effect,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a detailed agenda for the G8 Summit in June 2013; if he will report on that agenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25469/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the G8 Summit in June 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25470/13]

Other Questions: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Barryroe?

Other Questions: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister not heard about Barryroe?

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should watch this one.

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Keep it that way.

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to watch the documentary film "Gasland" about the impact of hydraulic fracturing in some states in the United States. What it details is terrifying. Whole swathes of agricultural land have been poisoned and become unusable. The consequences of such activity for a much smaller country like ours where agriculture, tourism and the environment are extremely important could...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Regulation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was not my point.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Regulation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is giving away our oil and gas, however.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Regulation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question is whether we will benefit from this. Of course we should sell energy if we have enough of our own, but in a situation in which we have very difficult targets to meet and must massively increase our domestic production of renewable energy, saying we should sell it to England before we have enough of it ourselves is a somewhat spurious argument. These issues need to be teased...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Regulation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am strongly in favour of this country developing our renewable energy resources. It is vital that we meet, if not exceed, the target of 40% renewables production by 2020 in the context of the climate change crisis and the economic benefits arising from the development of indigenous energy sources. My concern, however, is whether the citizens of the State will reap the benefits of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Regulation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline all the processes and conditions surrounding the establishment and management of windfarms, both on and offshore, including required permissions, environmental stipulations, licensing, taxes, royalties and other benefits to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27898/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has considered using the ESB to develop our wind resources. [26650/13]