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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Part of the reason for the outrage at the Gresham House-Coillte deal was that it was going to further expand a failed forestry model of sitka plantations. They are bad for communities, bad for biodiversity, bad for water quality, and bad on just about every level. They make our forestry very vulnerable to disease and dependent on a monoculture economy. Interestingly, the European...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the overwhelming dominance of sitka. It is an accident waiting to happen from of biodiversity point of view when we consider the pine weevil and the bark beetle that is moving across Europe and so on. It would damage the economic interests of farmers. We can see how things such as ash dieback can happen very quickly. We need to diversify the forest model in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to reform the mandate of Coillte, in line with the recommendations of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25302/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following a controversy (details supplied), the steps that are being taken to reform Coillte's approach to meeting Ireland's afforestation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25306/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is going to adopt the recommendations of the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity in terms of reform of Coillte and forestry policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he is going to implement the commitment in the programme for Government to review and reform the Forestry Act 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25303/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a pension lump sum one-off payment is taken into account when assessing someone for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25361/23]

Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was much trumpeting of the recent auction for the contracts for offshore renewable wind energy. I do not really know why there is any celebration whatsoever of the fact. What it is, in fact, is an auction to privatise our wind resources which is shameful and is a hostage to fortune. We know in many instances that the private consortiums and companies that are involved can just decide...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [24731/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: John Barry is a Limerick man in his 60s who had to retire following a heart attack and who subsequently suffered a debilitating brain injury. Mr. Barry has been given notice to quit by his landlord who had a long-term leasing arrangement with Limerick City and County Council. The landlord is evicting Mr. Barry on the grounds that he needs to move a family member into the property, while at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I was contacted by a very nice man I met many years ago. He informed me that he was previously in the Army and that he had been a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of an officer over many years. Approximately 20 years ago, he took a High Court case where, although the sexual abuse was acknowledged, finding the Army culpable was not accepted at that time by the court. Since...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an EU army.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well, there are battle groups, if not an EU army.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update those goals. [24730/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Owen is a pensioner with severe diabetes who has had half his leg amputated and he has associated heart and kidney issues. His wife, Myrna, works full time as a home carer, but because her income takes them over the social housing income threshold, they are living effectively in a cupboard. She sleeps in the bed and Owen has to sleep on a couch with his condition, but cannot sleep until the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be a sliding scale. It should not be a cliff.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Ashmore for an interesting presentation. I learned a lot. Mr. Ashmore may say what I ask about is commercially sensitive. I hope he will not. Is it possible to get more detail on the spread, type and categories of investments and their geographical location? I am curious about that. Are there tables that say we have this much in housing or forestry and how detailed are those...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of them?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Similarly, on an international level, is all the detail about the countries and so on reported?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is interesting. Mr. Ashmore stated that the job of ISIF is commercial investment. I think "on the commercial side of the line" is the way he put it. That is a slightly blurry line in some areas, is it not? It could be argued that it is hard to say on which side of the line social, public and affordable housing are. I would be interested in Mr. Ashmore's view of that. Public...