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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all our contributors. What they have said is very interesting and it never occurred to me. We have just come from a discussion on setting up a special committee on climate change. Irrespective of whether we like it, we have no choice but to accelerate our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and the country will incur very significant fines starting in 2020 if we do not succeed and we...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand Ms Murphy's point that there is a new grade of diesel engine for heavy goods vehicles. Is she saying they are producing no emissions?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the point Ms Murphy makes about the costs imposed on road haulage operators and the difficulties that would create. I am somewhat surprised to hear that some diesel engines have zero emissions.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Labour Party did not do it.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no evidence of that, so why does the Tánaiste keep saying it?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Try disputing the facts then.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is doing a really good job.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every day households in this country use 300 million l of water. Does the Tánaiste know how much leaks out of the system every day? It is 700 million l of water.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to hand the Irish Water business plan. This is the plan of the Tánaiste's crowd and what it shows is a drop in investment from 2010 onwards, first instigated by Fianna Fáil and the Greens, then by Fine Gael and Labour.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Water business plan refers on several occasions to the decades of under-investment. That was done by Fine Gael-led and Fianna Fáil-led Governments. Have things improved slightly since the Government abandoned the wild goose chase of water charges? Yes, because €250 million a year that was being put into water meters that do not fix leaks has now been redirected to...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish Water testified in this House in April that it needs €18 billion of investment to fix our water infrastructure.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste said the leakage will be down to 38% by 2020. That is pathetic.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That does not deal with the problem. We need to significantly increase investment in water infrastructure, which the Government has failed to do.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not need a rainy day fund. We need a sunny day fund because the current heatwave and the warnings from Irish Water about water shortages have yet again exposed the completely decrepit state of Ireland's water infrastructure and the disastrous consequences of decades of underinvestment by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil-led Governments. In particular, the current crisis has been...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to renew FEMPI legislation; when a report on same will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29110/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to retro-fit State buildings to conserve water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29226/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (3 Jul 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the programmes available for refugees here under the EU relocation programme for permanent housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28943/18]
- Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The misery, suffering, hardship and cruelty that are being imposed on thousands of children, the 144,000 people on housing waiting lists and the 10,000 people who are homeless are simply intolerable and the position is getting worse and worse. The more we talk, the worse it gets. It is the bitter fruit of the disastrous decision the Minister's party took in 2011 - alongside the Labour Party...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This concerns the programme for Government.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (28 Jun 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to communications received by the Ombudsman for Children from HSE management in 2011 regarding the resources available and the referral pathway in counties Laois and Offaly CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28386/18]