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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are ultimately temporary revenues that the state is getting, even if they have lasted for a generation. I do not know how much longer they will last, but whatever it is, there is a certain point at which they will run out and then the fund will run out unless another way is found to replenish it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not second-guessing Mr. Gjedrem, but I want to be the devil's advocate from our point of view in thinking about this. If, at a certain point, additional revenues cannot be put in, and one fifth is coming from oil revenues, when the oil runs out there is quite a deficit to make up. Why would the money not be used while Norway has it to diversify the economy and try to find other sources...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it projected that there will be an economic rent from the offshore renewable investment in the medium to long term, and will that revenue go to the public?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a recent report by an organisation (details supplied) that found that up to almost half of parents or their children have had to go without heat, electricity, food, clothing or other essential items over the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26006/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a recent report from a charity (details supplied) which found that 73% of parents think that the cost-of-living crisis has negatively affected their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26007/23]

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.