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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that no records exist or cannot be found by his Department in relation to public access to information under the provisions of the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007 to 2018 pertaining to stakeholder meetings involving his Department and the Forestry Appeals Committee...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average time taken for his Department to issue a statement of facts on an appeal of a forestry licence after a request for the same from the Forestry Appeals Committee between the three schemes, that is, felling, forest roads and afforestation and Coillte licences and private licences, respectively. [3741/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the processes or procedures followed by the Forest Service Inspectorate when carrying out a post licence monitoring inspection of the felling licence in respect of tree felling licences that have been subject to an appropriate assessment under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive; the criteria or details that are routinely...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives from NERI and Social Justice Ireland. As always, their contributions have been most informative. To cut a long story short, what I am hearing is that indexing and benchmarking welfare against wages is the way to do it because if we use inflation, the less well off will see a bigger gap growing between them and workers. In addition, if I heard the witnesses...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. McDonnell answered very comprehensively. I thank him very much. I am curious about what he has to say on the energy issue, given that it is very topical at present.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the Minister of State said the Government had abolished SHDs, there have been seven new applications for SHDs just on the Dún Laoghaire side of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. That is because the Government essentially allowed an extension for these build-to-rent developer-led developments. Ironically, some of the Government's local representatives are now running around saying that...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not have the staff and the money being provided is going into general funds, not into creating new posts.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: SHDs were a scandal. They did nothing to address the housing crisis. They delivered overpriced rents to make money for developers. Since the announcement that this process would go, though, we had seven applications in December. There is murder in Sallynoggin over a nine-story construction. It is a working-class area where there are only two-storey houses but this will be a nine-storey...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government said that it was getting rid of SHDs.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed or plans to review staffing levels in the local authorities in view of the changes to the strategic housing development and large-scale residential developments legislation; if he will sanction extra posts to ensure that staff increases needed in the planning sections of the local authorities will not pull...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk about being found out. Fianna Fáil is in combative mood tonight. Here is a Fianna Fáil hoax, that it got rid of strategic housing developments, SHDs, before Christmas. As we warned, there was a flood of SHD applications for build-to-rent developments by greedy developers trying to get in on the gold rush in our area as soon as that legislation went through. The Minster said...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire and Sinn Féin for introducing this motion on the leaving certificate. People Before Profit is happy to support it. The very least we can insist upon in the particular situation of Covid-19 is that the voices of leaving certificate school students, as clearly expressed by them and their representative organisations, should be heard. They want a choice...

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The murder of Ashling Murphy was an absolutely unspeakable and horrific act. I can only imagine the grief the family must be feeling. I pass on my deepest sympathies to her family, her friends and her community. Against that background of an utterly unspeakable senseless murder and tragedy, it has been very heartening to see the amazing response of people throughout the country, coming...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why no criticism of NATO?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is NATO not expanding eastwards when it is not static?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vladimir Putin is a thug and autocrat who has done very nasty things recently to working people in Kazakhstan, has waged a bloody war in Chechnya and is now flexing his muscles in Ukraine, so of course we should condemn what Russia is doing, but why is there no condemnation from a country that is supposed to be neutral of a clear agenda by NATO to expand eastwards and escalate military...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One thing among others that people in the South and the North share is fuel poverty. The Taoiseach did not have a chance to respond in the last round of questions but I hope he will this time. Fuel poverty in the North is 22%. It is only 13% in England. The ESRI estimates one in six in the South suffers from fuel poverty. A RED C poll last year found that 19% of people turn the heat off...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still did not get an answer. That is two different rounds where I did not get an answer.