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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet.. [21777/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change last met; and when it will next meet. [20475/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Wildlife Trust, IWT, recently issued a very stark warning about the biodiversity crisis, which is often forgotten in the context of the equally urgent crisis of climate change. It is very important for us to remember that biodiversity collapse could spell the end of our ability to live on this planet. One of the areas the IWT pointed to was the critical importance of the marine...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward the motion. Anything that gives us an opportunity to highlight the housing crisis and the plight of renters is very welcome. I support overwhelmingly the thrust of the motion. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and Deputy Devlin's attempts to defend the Government's position and their...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [23265/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with transport will next meet. [23266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an organisation (details supplied) and its associated sports received 40% of all public sports funding in 2020 from Sport Ireland; if there is only 3% participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22827/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is oversight of the way that Sport Ireland calculates the distribution of funding between sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22828/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an organisation (details supplied) receives separate funding for other associations; if other sporting organisations will now need to apply separately for women's sports funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22829/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of breaches of protection, safety and barring orders that are made to An Garda Síochána; the number of subsequent arrests that are made following such reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22837/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that will need to be in place to allow weddings with more than six persons to proceed, that is, the R-nought number, case numbers, percentage of population vaccinated and so on; if guidance can be given regarding summer weddings; the Department that is responsible for the wedding industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22823/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 564. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the promised motorised transport grant which was closed in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if a version of a vaccine (details supplied) will be considered and accepted as a valid and viable vaccine by the National Immunisation Advisory Council and the European Medicines Agency; if it will be considered in the plans to accept returning vaccinated persons as restrictions are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take ten or 12 minutes. There will be definitely eight, if not ten, for Deputy Barry.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for looking after our interests. I appreciate it. When the school student climate strikers came out on the street in this country and across the world, they shouted and had on their banners and placards the slogan "System change, not climate change!" They also loudly shouted about the need for a just transition as being absolutely critical to delivering the...

National Marine Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

National Marine Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I objected at the Business Committee to the original plan of the Government to attempt to push through this motion on the marine planning framework without debate. I am glad we did so. It is clear the Government wants to ram this through in order to silence legitimate concerns and questions by people concerned with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Among the industries and groups of workers in this country are the approximately 25,000 taxi drivers who have been crucified by the impact of Covid-19 public health restrictions. That will continue for as long as other sectors on which they depend for their income, such as music, entertainment, events, tourism and aviation, are affected. However, their appeals for specific assistance to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Taxi drivers have a number of simple demands, none of which have been met. They have asked for a financial package of supports to cover their fixed costs, which were estimated by the NTA a number of years ago at €11,000 a year. Those are debts they have been accumulating and they have been excluded from the schemes to support those fixed costs. They have asked for a moratorium on...