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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the statement of strategy of his Department. [29781/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if it will be ensured that changes to the local property tax take into account the incomes of the homeowners in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans with regard to changes to the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any engagements with the CSO with regard to the rescheduling of Census 2021. [28374/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned especially during the current pandemic that windows which cannot be opened on long journey trains are in effect a sealed off unit from fresh air and that recirculating air via air conditioning does not have sufficient filtration systems to deal with covid-19 as noted by the European Railways Agency; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason uncompleted houses (details supplied) would not be sold individually by NAMA to persons who are willing to complete the necessary work to make these houses habitable for their own use given that there are other houses in the estate that are completed with occupants who have a water connection and in view of the lack of housing; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the approved housing bodies involved in the mortgage-to-rent initiative; the banks that are involved in the initiative; the way households are identified as suitable for inclusion in the initiative; the number of households nationally that are provided for by this scheme; the terms for tenants; the duration of the lease; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 927. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if another date will be arranged for a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any private land owners have been approved afforestation licences on the same land type now being proposed by his Department as suitable for afforestation on decommissioned Bord na Móna bogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31228/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will be funding the environmental reports for the pilot scheme on industrial bog lands involving Bord na Móna and Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31229/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is experimenting on Bord na Móna decommissioned industrial bog lands to achieve afforestation targets instead of processing licence applications that are submitted to his Department by private land owners who are waiting inordinate lengths of time to obtain a licence to plant their land; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he advised his Department to focus on Coillte felling licences for 2021 which prioritised them over the ten private licences applications awaiting a decision from his Department since 2016 or the 28 applications awaiting a decision since 2017 or the 237 private licence applications awaiting decision from his Department since...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This section really gets to the heart of what is wrong with the Bill and the Government's whole conception of the LDA. It is the dirty little secret behind the Land Development Agency. The agency should be about gathering up land that is being sat on by private developers and speculators, or land being held by Departments or State agencies other than local authorities, and ensuring that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am pointing out that the LDA is part 2 of the disastrous policy pursued with NAMA. It is exactly the same policy and will have exactly the same disastrous consequences at a time when we should be moving in precisely the opposite direction. Shanganagh Castle is proof positive of that. If the Government had simply provided the local authority, which had signalled its desire to build...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have basically made the point but I just-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry Chairman, stop interrupting me.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt anybody else so stop interrupting me.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I am just concluding on the point that this is the critical section that gives away what is wrong with this Bill. There is simply no justification from the point of view of finance, as has been confirmed to us by the ESRI, and there is no justification on the basis of efficient delivery of public and affordable housing because doing it in this precise way has led to chronic delays on...