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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Children's Rights Alliance highlighted once again one of the most shameful aspects of the utterly disastrous housing crisis, namely the phenomena of child homelessness and the impact that has on children, on their mental health and on their well-being, and how, as they put it, it deprives and robs children of their precious childhood. The figures are stark. There are now 3,431...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of social welfare payments which qualify a person for the SEAI fully-funded energy upgrades; if he will provide a list of the social welfare payments that do not qualify a person; the rationale for same; if the scope will be broadened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of homes built (details supplied) to date in 2023, broken down by local authority. [9882/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except water.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe they were listening.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The objectives of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill seem fairly laudable. The main purposes of the Bill are, as set out in the explanatory memorandum, to "recognise the prevention of harm to individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody is clear that Putin is a murderous tyrant and criminal warmonger. However, I quoted the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which is made up of ten Nobel Peace Laureates who start by condemning Putin and then go on to urge NATO. The problem is that the Tánaiste has a blind spot when it comes to the equally bloody history of NATO and its major powers. The United States has never...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste call that a war crime? Will he say the Palestinians have the right to military resistance against what Israel is doing? Of course he will not because Israel is an ally of the United States. We will never prevent war if a neutral country has a blind spot about some of the warmongers in this world. A consistent position is opposing all nuclear powers, all warmongering...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----tyrannical regime of Russia or NATO and the western powers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is being done without the assent of this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cashing in on high prices.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is particularly appropriate that the Ceann Comhairle mentioned the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as we mark the first anniversary of Putin's bloody, murderous and criminal invasion of Ukraine. The United States, the biggest power in the world in two days with nuclear weapons incinerated more than 300,000 people. Today, Vladimir Putin, another nuclear power, said he is ramping up his...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of how he will approve grants for any State-backed forestry investment fund, given the clear judgment of the European Court in 2003 that legal persons owned and controlled by the State are eligible for aid to cover the costs of afforestation and maintenance of forests in the same way as any other natural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the cost-benefit analysis for Irish forestry provided as part of Ireland’s current application for State aid; if he can assure this Deputy that the criticism of the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2018 that the previous cost benefit analysis for State Aid 2014 - 2021 failed to account for a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the Government did not conduct an up-to-date cost benefit analysis based on the social, environmental and economic pillars of sustainable forest management of the new Forestry Strategy/Programme that included water and soil damage to decide public good value for money, given the huge expenditure of €1.3 billion...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the advances in scientific knowledge about the emissions caused by forestry activities on organic soils summarised by the Environmental Protection Agency in July 2022, if the Government has revised the value of forestry sequestration from that used in the State aid application 2014 to 2021, when 39% of the benefit was...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a golden shareholder, will call an EGM to amend the principal objects of the State forestry board of Coillte Teoranta from its sole definition as ‘commercial’ to include ‘environmental’ and ‘social’ factors, as is required under the definition of ‘sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct the State forestry board of Coillte Teoranta to use the same metrics as the EPA and LULUCF carbon accounting and stop its practice of including carbon embedded in manufactured wood products and saved through product substitution, which is misleading the public as to their forestry’s contribution to...