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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?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any chance we could get the clock back so that I would know where I am?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: In fact, we have not got anywhere near even meeting those inadequate targets that we have set. Indeed, I was talking to some people from one the biggest nurseries in the country today and they say that the afforestation programme could grind to a halt by the end of this year because we do not have enough ecologists and archaeologists in the forest service to process the afforestation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Expenditure (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to argue in favour of a big bang of increased expenditure and boosting people's incomes in the event of a no-deal Brexit. That might seem like a radical proposal-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Expenditure (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but 20 or 30 years ago it would have been considered ABC Keynesian economics. In the face of a possible serious disruption of the economy, whether as a result of Brexit or, for that matter, a looming recession, what Keynes, who was not a socialist, argued is that one should boost people's incomes, boost demand, boost spending power and boost investment in key strategic areas. As the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Expenditure (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's comment to the effect that he will not let Brexit become the new austerity, particularly as that would be absolutely the wrong approach. However, there have been certain signals that, for example, social welfare increases or boosts in workers' incomes might be held back in the event of a no-deal Brexit. I put it to the Minister that that would be a mistake. Even...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Expenditure (1 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the areas of the budget he is planning to increase in view of the threat of a no-deal Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39608/19]