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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte and the forestry industry cannot provide full life cycle carbon accounting for its operations that include the full fossil fuel usage of the clear fell/replant model with high disturbance, especially given that Ireland is harvesting more with shorter rotations; the true carbon/fossil fuel cost of harvesters and...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline how not having full life cycle carbon accounting affects the carbon measuring and accounting for the Climate Action Plan and EU LULUCF and UNFCC climate reporting REF (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9336/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline how the full life cycle carbon accounting anomaly has been factored into the new Irish forestry strategy/programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9337/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the 400 acres of public forestry lands sold to an organisation (details supplied) in 2016 for €230 million; if this public property was placed on the open market to obtain the best value for the public interest; if not, if it was sold in a private deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9338/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Coillte lands at a location (details supplied) were originally in the Land Commission portfolio transferred to Coillte in 1989; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9340/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the Land Commission was dissolved in 1989 with 2,500 ha of agricultural land, if he can ascertain the amount of that land that was gifted to Coillte/NPWS; if so, if he will provide a breakdown by estate, area, acreage, and so on; the amount of this land that is still in Coillte/NPWS control; the amount that has been sold off;...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte had provided him with its five-year business plan; if this plan included a deal between Coillte and an organisation (details supplied); if a letter of expectation sent instructing Coillte to proceed with its plan referred to the five-year business plan; if it included the aforementioned deal; and if he will make a...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of members of the Coillte board of directors who have experience or knowledge of forestry management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9342/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will now place in the public domain the New Era Coillte Review Report, in light of the outpouring of public outrage at a deal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9343/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of businesses established by Coillte since 1989 which are no longer operational, for example, Coillte landscaping, Griffner/Coillte timber houses, Coillte Hardwoods, Coillte Christmas Trees; the accumulated debts associated with those failed enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9344/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the public forest estate, broken down into tree species and age, with all of the other assets such as forestry machinery, tractors, trucks, chainsaws, tools, and so on when the Forest Service was wound down to make way for Coillte in 1988; if he will outline what became of all the old assets, for example, forestry...

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: To insert the following after "sovereignty and territorial integrity of states": "— condemns North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) activity in escalating the war and using it to increase militarisation; — re-asserts its support for Irish neutrality and declares that Dáil Éireann will not be making any application to join NATO now or in...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are sometimes 30 pages.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suspect that almost none of this adversarial approach - the Minister says he is trying to avoid it, but this amounts to an adversarial approach of putting pressure on the applicants to meet particular timeframes for further information - would be necessary if he did not have the arbitrary six-month exclusion. Why send someone back for more information? Why refuse his or her application?...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, that is the next grouping.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the next one.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is amendment No. 56 the Deputy wishes to address. It is in the next grouping.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle allowed them to be made in respect of the last grouping, so I think I deserve my opportunity.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it absolutely extraordinary that the Minister has managed to stay pretty stony-faced in all of this - I am sure he is aware of the strength of feeling that has been expressed by people - and has refused to give the answer or to explain the exclusion, despite the last-minute and desperate appeals that have been made in this House and, more importantly, from thousands of survivors as to...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of these amendments are technical in nature. Some of them deal with the right of people to appeal. As others have already done and given that I was not sure I would have a chance to speak, I will take this opportunity to make some points in what is really a last-minute appeal to the Minister. I will connect what I have to say to the amendments before us. I find it quite extraordinary...