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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are people being evicted on grounds of sale at the moment, who have done nothing wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [61331/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much every farmers' organisation, every organisation that represents communities in rural Ireland and every environmental organisation I can think of are utterly opposed to this deal. They say, rightly, that it is likely to drive up the price of agricultural land, squeezing out farmers and making it more difficult for them to engage in sustainable afforestation. As I said, it will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons the issue of a political donation to Deputy Donohoe is so damaging to politics is because it is distracting from issues that would otherwise be dominating the debate and discussion in this House this week. One of those is the utterly scandalous and unacceptable proposal by Coillte to partner with an UK equity fund to buy up thousands of hectares of land and forestry in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte-Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; if he will outline the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) on wealth inequality in Ireland that found the number of Irish people with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people, and that the two richest people in Ireland have more wealth than the poorest 50% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by an organisation (details supplied) for a wealth tax of graduated rates of 2%, 3% and 5% on wealth above €4.7m, in which the organisation stated that such a wealth tax would raise €8.2 billion annually, with the potential to transform Irish public services in health, housing and education;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that leading global tax researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen (details supplied) have identified Ireland as a major tax haven and estimate that Ireland artificially attracts €130 billion in profits from other countries and gains €7.2 billion in tax...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on how a tenant who is on an electricity sub meter with pre-pay power, where the landlord has a commercial account, can access the electricity grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2989/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of applications for exceptional needs payments due to financial hardship, by social welfare areas, month by month for 2021 and 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2722/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 608. To ask the Minister for Health the way persons who need continuous supplies of insulin are expected to maintain their health while the supply is difficult to access other than by very minimal amounts dispensed on an emergency basis from overwhelmed hospitals, given that there is a shortage of insulin supplies in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3223/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like others, I have raised on several occasions in the House this week what I believe to be a shameful proposed partnership between Coillte, the State forestry company, and Gresham House, a UK for-profit fund with a plan to buy up huge swaths of forestry and land in this country to make money. Last week, I met environmental and small farmer groups that have established a campaign using the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider the Government opposition to the provision of free public transport, given his statements effectively scrapping targets for 1 million EVs in the State by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has in ensuring the national development plan fulfils plans for expansion of acute, primary and community care in line with Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has in ensuring the national development plan fulfils required climate actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2365/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can clarify whether the Government has abandoned targets for 1 million private EV on the roads by 2030; the way targets for cuts to emissions in transport will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62727/22]

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The proposed deal between Coillte, the State forestry company, and Gresham House, a UK-based investment fund, is an absolute disgrace on a par with the previous, utterly shameful plan first signed off by Fianna Fáil and the Greens in 2010, and followed through on by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, to sell off the harvesting rights of Coillte in 2013 to pay off the bankers' debts. I am...