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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past ten days or so, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of the attempt by Coillte, the State forestry company, to sell off Killegar forest in Enniskerry. Despite-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have done well. I am glad to say I got a call from Coillte yesterday informing me it had decided to abandon the sale. Coillte tried to suggest that the sale was not finalised. I will inform the House that there were for sale signs all around the forest when I went there. Killegar forest was being advertised on an estate agent's website so Coillte had planned to sell it. Intervention...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the call made by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan on access for all. I commend the Access for All campaign for highlighting the constant problem at DART stations. We have many of them in our area. A key aspect of that is the lack of staff in DART stations to actually assist people when there are difficulties with lifts and to report these difficulties and so on. I also wish to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not be jumping over myself to have a personal or political relationship with Boris Johnson to be honest and I am certainly no fan of his but did the Taoiseach discuss with him the differing strategies on dealing with the Covid pandemic? The one thing that I will give him a little credit for, and on which I think that the Taoiseach should take a leaf from his book, is that in the UK,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, then let us make them free as they are doing in the UK. I am not saying that Boris Johnson has been top of the class in dealing with the pandemic but this is a measure which many scientists and public health people are saying could be part of dealing with Covid. The UK policy of giving them out free to people when they need them, and as many as they need, is a good policy that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can throw his response into his answer on this next question. We need antigen tests on public transport.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [54394/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the British Prime Minister. [54393/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the condolences to Austin Currie's family on his recent passing. It is a sobering thought that the momentous events that propelled him into activism and the civil rights movement that followed in the North started with housing. It is on that question I wish to question the Taoiseach. Today's daft.iefigures are a further indication that the dire situation in unaffordable...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not actually.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I propose is that we set up a rent authority to set rents and to reduce them to affordable levels based on people's income.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not even give me a minute.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise to our guests. I did not hear their earlier contributions because I was at another committee next door. It was a bit frustrating. I apologise in advance if I repeat questions. What do the witnesses think of what I would favour to deal with energy price rises, rent and house price increases and other forms of inflation which will adversely impact on our economy and society? I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I am glad I agree with Professor Whelan on something there, namely, the last point. I respectfully disagree with the economists on the issue of rents, house prices and so on. I will make the obvious point. I made it to the Taoiseach and have made it several times in this debate as supply, supply, supply is always the answer. Forget about the debate between Marx and Hayek, as...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 144 relates to an appeal by the holder of the relevant authorisation against a decision to impose a major sanction. That would be dealt with by the High Court. Will the Minister of State explain, if an entity is trying to defend a decision to impose a major sanction and the holder of the authorisation is saying that there should not be a sanction, whether people such as...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to fully understand this. We raised concerns yesterday about the potential difficulties in access to justice for NGOs, for example, the costs and so on that they might incur. In this particular instance, let us say that the reason that the MARA decided a sanction might be necessary is because it received reports from stakeholders, NGOs or members of the public that they felt the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that point. I am trying to thrash this around so that I am clear in my own head. If it was the case that a stakeholder, an NGO or, for that matter, a concerned member of the public had brought matters to the attention of MARA that prompted it to investigate and impose sanctions, certainly MARA would have to defend its position in the court against an appeal by the authorisation...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not labour the point except to say - I will consider submitting an amendment on Report Stage - that it would not be unreasonable to consider at least some sort of provision where those who felt they had a stake in the outcome of those proceedings might be allowed to give evidence to the court as to why they think the decision to impose a sanction was a correct one. In other words, not...