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Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows directly on from Deputy Moynihan's. I will ask about the forestry programme. In a document I helped leak, and that the Government had not put out, from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment, our draft forestry programme was rejected on the basis that it was not doing biodiversity. It very specifically referred to Coillte and the predominance of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach predicting a recession?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is going to be a few years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If you go on daft.ieor myhome.ie and look for rental accommodation, you are very unlikely to find any rental accommodation for less than €2,000 per month and you are more likely to see €2,500 to €3,000 being asked for. Many of the people who would want to rent such accommodation will be over the social housing income thresholds and, therefore, are entitled to no rent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once people enter into homelessness, it is very hard to get out of it. I will respond to something the Taoiseach said earlier. I have raised multiple cases, including that of a woman who is working, ironically, looking after vulnerable children, who has been in homeless accommodation and sharing a bedroom with her son for four years. That is what happens when people enter homelessness, in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We warned the Government when it decided to go through with the cold-hearted decision to lift the no fault eviction ban on 1 April that it would lead to a spike in homelessness. The figures that came out last Friday, conveniently enough for the Government before the weekend but we need to consider them, show a significant rise in the rate of homelessness in the first month after that no...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any rules, regulations, guidelines or studies around the safe transporting of children on bicycles and on cargo bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying the living wage and the minimum wage to all workers on the CE scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 704. To ask the Minister for Health how a non-national physiotherapist (details supplied) can meet work placement requirements enforced by CORU for physiotherapy practice in Ireland, given that they applied to numerous hospitals across Ireland, but due to various reasons such as a shortage of senior staff, specific university affiliations and staff shortages following the Covid-19 pandemic,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the other options open for a woman suffering from endometriosis, who was referred to a pain specialist (details supplied), but was told that they could be waiting over a year for their appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26216/23]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Three days.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cowardice, conservatism, misogyny and a patronising attitude towards women has characterised the treatment of women in this country for virtually the entire history of the State. These attitudes led to the obscenities of the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries, the Bethany homes and to tens and tens of thousands of women having to flee abroad under a shadow of stigma and shame for...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry.

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the biodiversity crisis? It is the fact that the existence of life, human life and everything else, is dependent on millions and millions of plant and animal species in a very delicate balance, such that if we wipe out millions of those species we may not exist very soon or may not be able to exist. This is what is at stake. We need to protect it. I believe the Government speaks...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are already there.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit. Does the Tánaiste think it is a bit rich that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Ministers are tearing lumps out of one another at the moment saying how much they will help the squeezed middle and ordinary people in the forthcoming budget when it was collectively Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that squeezed them in the first place? I ask the question particularly when...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My view is that we should end the poverty.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am saying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the critique of Ireland's forest programme by the D-G Environment, if the Government is redrafting the programme; where that process is at; if he will be conducting an updated cost-benefit analysis that includes impacts on water, biodiversity and environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25305/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am part of the Save Our Forests - Save our Land alliance, which the Minister may remember campaigned and protested against the deal between Coillte and the Gresham House vulture fund for Ireland's forestation programme. In January we put into the public domain a leaked letter from the Directorate-General Environment in the European Commission, which roundly criticised the proposed forestry...