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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that 5,000 extra hectares?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the members of the Irish Timber Council. I am utterly opposed to the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte, which is not just, as has been explained, a hugely valuable economic asset but a priceless cultural asset. Frankly, if one pardons the pun, it is nothing more than treason to even consider selling off the harvesting rights of our public forests. Could the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it is Sitka spruce. I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is correct; we have citrus spruce in Dún Laoghaire.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the result of the review promised by his Department last year in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20698/13]

Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are the scheme and the houses?

Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when legislation underpinning the proposed incremental purchase scheme for existing local authority houses will be drafted, in view of the fact that there is currently no scheme available to tenants to purchase their local authority houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/13]

Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State explain why there is a time lag? The tenant purchase scheme, which operated from 1995 until December of last year, was quite successful. It provided reasonable discounts for local authority tenants who wanted to purchase their own homes. The Minister of State was very vague regarding the context of when a new scheme will be established and she also did not...

Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State indicated that people were put on notice in 2010. I was not a Member of the House at that stage. The Minister of State has still not indicated why there is a time lag. The tenant purchase scheme was successful. As as been pointed out, giving people the right to buy their own local authority homes is obviously very good for them but in general it is also good for...

Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When?

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One doctor out of six can veto it.

Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday the Taoiseach told the House that the sale of Coillte's harvesting rights was being considered and in the event of it going ahead, legislation would be required. However, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, said the sale of Coillte's harvesting rights was unlikely because of protests and opposition, in which case no legislation could be...

Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are trying to figure out whether the Government will separate the wood from the trees.

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Fleming on proposing this motion on what is a tremendously important subject. I understand this is the first time it has been discussed in the Dáil. It has only been discussed on one previous occasion in the Oireachtas when Senator Feargal Quinn raised the matter in the Upper House. This is, therefore, a first for the Dáil and Deputy Fleming is to be commended on...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is semantics. He is the biggest shareholder.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough but he is the majority shareholder.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am genuinely at a loss, as is the public. Someone sat down with the board of the AIB and I do not know what influence that person used. Perhaps it was it the influence of someone who is very wealthy or several people who are very wealthy or perhaps there was a genuine consideration that this media company should survive and job losses should be avoided. That would be a reasonable basis...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps they would but in a situation where we own AIB and a significant portion of Bank of Ireland, do we not have a responsibility to ask why different standards are being applied? A major company like INM, with massive debts, can go before the board of a bank that we own and have those debts written off. We do not know why; it could be a favour for friends or to keep the business going...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be very pleased if he did but I am asking the Minister, and the Government, as the majority shareholder in AIB, how is it acceptable for a bank that the public owns to write off all this debt while the banks, under pressure from the troika and facilitated by the Government, are being allowed to repossess the homes of people who cannot make their mortgage repayments. The reason most...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In previous debates we have had the Minister has mentioned it.