Results 3,701-3,720 of 27,236 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 23 February 2023, while noting his announcement that he is 'reassessing its policy with regard to future afforestation on organic soils and that this will be informed by the UN Global Peatlands Assessment', if he will re-examine his reply in the context of this report's recommendations...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are concerns within his Department regarding health and safety issues regarding rotten ash trees breaking off and falling within plantations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19723/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately and without further bureaucracy or prejudice grant permission to remove rotten ash trees resulting from chalara fraxinea, ash dieback disease affected this year, given the serious health and safety risks associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19724/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal position regarding liability where dead or rotten ash plants within plantations fall causing injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19725/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 8 February 2023, if he will provide an update on an assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/23]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I nominate Deputy Nash.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ministers and their teams for their contributions. The big thing people are thinking about at the moment is the surpluses the Government has announced and what might be done with them. The Minister said it would not be prudent, given the underlying deficit when we take out the windfall profits, to rely on revenues that may be vulnerable to significant changes in the future....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I have a bit more time or not?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If I am out of time, I am out of time.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just asking if I am or am not out of time.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just saying-----
- Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on the very important subject of how mortgage holders are being absolutely creased with the mortgage interest increases they have experienced as a result of not only the rising ECB rates but also, and this is critical, as far as we are concerned, the profiteering of the banks. It is for that reason we think the Sinn Féin proposal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should acquaint himself with the theory of Frankenstein's monster, because the militias that are running around and now killing Sudanese people are, in a significant part, the Frankenstein's monsters that have been created by hundreds of millions of euro of European Union funding. The leader of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, which was formerly the Janjaweed militias that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council. [18279/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised it here back in 2018.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would look into it if I were the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [18278/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision to waive levies for developers is a disgraceful recycling of an already failed policy. Does the Taoiseach not remember LIHAF, which involved subsidies to developers to build infrastructure and was supposed to deliver affordable housing? Within weeks of LIHAF being introduced, the requirement to get 40% back in affordable housing was dropped and we got virtually nothing in terms...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How about EU funding of militias?