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- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a gag that the Green Party is the cycling wing of Fine Gael. The manner in which this debate is being guillotined and the way in which the last few minutes have been taken up with the not-unimportant subject of cycle ways and active transport, which will preclude us from discussing amendments that deal with something that has a far greater impact on the climate crisis the Green...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making the contrast between the priorities of the Green Party in this amendment-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know Deputy Matthews wants me to speak to the grouping of amendments because he did not want us to get to the other amendments. We will not get the chance-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because Deputy Matthews went along with the cynical guillotining of this Bill. This, therefore, is the last opportunity we have to speak on the really substantial amendments in this Bill. We will not get to discuss them properly. The Green Party has betrayed its promise in the programme for Government not to develop more fossil fuel infrastructure in this country that will lock us...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly; leniency has been given all night.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am drawing the contrasts in priorities between the Green Party’s Deputies-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----enthusiasm for this amendment-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while, at the same time, shielding themselves and the Government from justified scrutiny and criticism over a series of amendments we will never even get to discuss because this debate will be over in a few minutes. These amendments were never discussed by the Dáil at any stage and we are not going to get the opportunity to discuss them. They will do extreme damage to the...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not dismiss them. I said they were fair enough.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While we are choking with fossil fuels.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will never get to the substantive amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or the Americans.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Look-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. Unfortunately, the discussion on the Bill commenced early and therefore, I have not heard the earlier contributions. I will to briefly restate my concerns about the ramming through of this Bill. On Report Stage, we had many amendments which did not get dealt with because the Bill was guillotined. I know the Government will say there were many hours afforded to this Bill on...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On this-----
- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, nobody who receives this credit before or after Christmas will be sorry to do so. As the ESRI has pointed out, however, the net effect of the Government’s budget is that some of the least well-off and most vulnerable households will be marginally less well off. That is pretty shameful. Given the astonishing, unprecedented budget surpluses and, of course, the Apple...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the housing issue, I fully agree with the comments about the labour shortage and bottlenecks and the need to address these issues as a matter of urgency. They need to be addressed in multiple ways. We need more apprentices and more people trained in the construction trades. Immigrants or returning Irish people can help us solve this issue. The Irish might come back if we can...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just coincidence.