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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week during Leaders' Questions and on other occasions in this House, I vociferously protested the Government's cynical decision to sign us up to the PESCO European defence pact and the manner in which the Government did so, namely, by withholding that it planned to do this from the Business Committee for several weeks. It was a calculated effort to prevent public debate on the matter....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Government going to do about this? It is a damning indictment of what European governments are doing to thousands of people in Libya.
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister please get real? Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was not a mistake; it was a calculated declaration of war against the Palestinian people, the Arab world and the Muslim population. If the Minister does not see that, then he is living in cloud cuckoo land. Netanyahu is celebrating. He claims that the European Union will eventually...
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister think there should be any sanction for the systematic breaking of international law? The Minister believes sanctions are justified against Syria. Does the Minister believe that at any point sanctions should be imposed against Israel for what it is doing? Does the Minister believe anything other than words of concern should be expressed about the fact that the United...
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what happened in South Africa. We got at result in South Africa.
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Viktor Orbán does not share it.
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions with his counterparts in Europe after the announcement by President Trump to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53230/17]
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is grouped.
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is grouped.
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we clarify which questions are grouped?
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it Questions Nos. 31, 32 and 50?
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question No. 50 is in the grouping.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the conversations he has had with President Trump or the US Administration since the President's decision to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53229/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the services that were provided to persons in Mosney, County Meath in 2007 through the on-site medical centre; and the professions that were represented there. [53455/17]
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address the specific issues of pay and conditions in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52968/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to follow up on the last few questions. The witnesses are claiming a record number of trees being planted, with an increase of 30%. A figure was quoted in regard to how much of that is new forestry, but the figures for afforestation nationally are very poor. They are well below the set targets. A witness mentioned a figure of 14% that is being discussed with the Government and how...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That works out about right. Mr. McCarthy said there was half a million acres. If I remember correctly, he said half of that would require substantial investment to bring it on, and the rest was not viable in any sense. I would like to hear more about that. What somebody might consider commercially viable from a narrow commercial point of view is not necessarily unviable from an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has Coillte planted them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On deforestation, holistically, if one works out the maths on this, significant questions arise over these large wind farms when one adds in construction costs, particularly if it includes cutting trees down. Up to 15,000 ha have gone in the past seven years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report referred to 15,000 ha of deforestation over the past seven years for wind farms, roads and other developments. It was not all down to Coillte but it was significant. Only 70 ha were afforested at the same time. One sees the maths. Against that background of deforestation, the rate of afforestation is minimal. Is it a good idea to hand over...