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Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated, in Wallonia it is worth €4.5 billion. We are massively underperforming in terms of the employment and revenue we could generate if we had a good and sustainable forestry model instead of the monocultural industrial forestry model that may result in net deforestation. As the model is largely based on one species of tree, it is quite damaging to soil and water. As it...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be opposing this Bill for a number of reasons. First, the manner in which this Bill is being pushed through is a disgrace. Even at this point, we are scrambling around and trying to get our heads around huge numbers of amendments, which will never be debated and discussed in any event. All of those amendments have been collapsed into the Second Stage debate and the legislation will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's policy is to rely on the goodwill of the banks to be humane towards borrowers in financial difficulty. That is pathetic. To call it naive would be a gross understatement. Remember what these banks did to borrowers who got in trouble as a result of the financial crash. They harassed and harangued them and put them through the wringer. People tried to engage with the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and all sorts of other sectors who have lost income and employment because of Government measures. The Government needs to do more for them.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A big credit union.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not one big credit union?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Minister of State is doing now.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has got his headline now.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We bailed out the banks to an enormous extent. They have not repaid society for that bailout in any substantial way. In fact, they have persecuted many mortgage holders who were in arrears and dispossessed many from their homes. We cannot have a repeat of that. The mortgage break ending opens up the prospect of that happening again. I heard Government spokespeople on the radio earlier...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister come before the House?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She should come to the House to answer questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet co-ordination committee last met. [27112/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The leaving certificate class of 2020 have suffered unacceptably because of a series of mess-ups. It is quite unconscionable that they are going to suffer yet again as a consequence of a gigantic and inexplicable cock-up. After all they have gone through and suffered, we now have this situation of uncertainty which could have very severe implications for those already in third level...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic Plan (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite all the talk of us all being in this together, I put it to the Taoiseach that the Government is progressively abandoning many of the workers and sectors that have been most harshly hit by the public health measures it has put in place. By definition, the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, is given to people who have lost employment because of measures the Government has taken....

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic Plan (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a high level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [27111/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government includes multiple commitments to sustaining rural life and to strengthening communities and yet, in the past week or so, postmasters have pointed out that An Post's network and many of our local post offices are on the brink of collapse because of a lack of Government support. In my area, two post offices are under threat as a result of the outsourcing model...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made and the steps he will take to address the concerns of the residents and school in an area (details supplied) about the serious issues with Eir and its provision of broadband, which was the subject of a complaint that has subsequently been progressed by the residents to the Commission for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is precisely because of the threat of Covid-19 to the health and well-being of the citizens that proper scrutiny and discussion of the strategy being pursued is absolutely necessary in order to take the public with us through this difficult situation. I therefore strenuously object, as I have done over recent weeks, to the fact that we do not get a dedicated session with the CMO and NPHET...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised this yesterday. I do not know who blocked or sought to block the two sessions we requested two weeks ago. I appeal to whomever is blocking them to show a little bit of faith in the wisdom and intelligence of us and the people we represent that having open and transparent questioning is not a threat to the public health effort. It will actually assist the public health effort....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the Fine Gael and Labour Party Government came to power in 2011, it coined its infamous slogan that it would get more for less. As that Government swung the austerity axe, the result was not more for less but a hell of a lot less at every level in our public services, to the point that we have nearly 1 million people waiting for procedures in hospitals, the lowest rate of ICU beds...