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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I too want to raise what I believe to be the scandal of the strategic housing development scheme. I raised it with the Taoiseach yesterday. We put in a submission to the review weeks ago calling for the scheme to be scrapped. Before the summer, a People Before Profit motion calling for the scheme to be scrapped was passed by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. This motion was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services Provision (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is planning to take to ensure equal access to public transport for disabled persons and those with mobility issues in view of the fact that the UNCRPD has been in effect since April 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39942/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services Provision (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Eleven years after the Government promised to sign the UNCRPD it was finally signed in April 2018. However, signing a convention and ensuring equal participation in society for people with disabilities are two different matters. In the area of transport, we are a long way short of the mark. There are massive problems with the regular and frequent breakdown of lifts at the DART stations,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services Provision (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has had 11 years to progressively realise equality and it is still a long way short. I will give the Minister a glimpse of the reality on the DART. On 22 August, lifts were out of order in nine stations; on 6 September, they were out of order in eight; on 9 September, online information stated lifts were out of order in two stations when in fact the number was six; and on 23...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services Provision (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Bernard.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services Provision (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just not good enough and in order to highlight this, Bernard Mulvany, who the Minister mentioned, and Sean O’Kelly and others, have had to organise multiple protests about this. It is not acceptable and we need it sorted urgently. The four hours' notice to access trains in Dublin and the 24 hours needed in the country is not equality. Some private bus companies which do not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase public transport provision in view of the declaration of a climate emergency; his further plans to make all public transport free of charge in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39901/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the NTA is not fining a company (details supplied) despite the fact it confirmed that the company is not fulfilling its contractual obligations in terms of the delivery of service on the 10% of routes it is running in Dublin; if it is open to the NTA to cancel the contract with the company in view of the failure to fulfil its...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and scale of services cancelled by a company (details supplied) on the routes it operates in Dublin; the reason these services failed to operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to tender out parts of the public transport service that is currently the remit of Bus Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39902/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that all public transport is fully accessible to disabled persons and those with mobility issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39903/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for having to leave the meeting for a time to attend to business in the Dáil. We campaigned long and hard in our locality to secure the welcome commitment given to the provision of public and affordable housing only on the Shanganagh site. That is how it should be because it is public land. However, I do not see what the Land Development Agency adds to this equation....

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a bit disconcerting not knowing where I am in the time.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is, actually. I want to conclude by saying that we need to change the mandate of Coillte completely. It needs to move away from a commercial for-profit approach to one that is about sustainable afforestation, using its land and resources to encourage community woodlands, co-ops and so on. Some of the unused Coillte land that the McCarthy report identified - hundreds of thousands of...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Green Party for bringing forward this motion on forestry, which People Before Profit will be supporting. The forests are important because they produce the air that we breathe. They clean the air. They clean the water. They hold the soil together. They prevent flooding. They produce products that can be useful for society for creating employment. They assist in this country...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seven and a half minutes.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Ceann Comhairle telling me I have spoken for seven and a half minutes?

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we see the clock?

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many minutes have I got?

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many have I left?