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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that if I press the amendment and not call for a vote, I can re-enter the amendment on Report Stage.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with Prime Minister Theresa May. [45035/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the input his Department had into Cabinet discussions on Ireland's role in and contribution to global climate change mitigation in advance of the Bonn climate change conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47044/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish a special task force to liaise and co-ordinate between his Department and the Departments of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to examine and drive a co-ordinated and coherent plan for utilising and expanding native forestry to maximise its multiple benefits...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether his Department is not sufficiently supporting small scale coppice management of existing hedgerows and woodlands on farms (details supplied); his plans to use existing funding not currently being availed of for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47041/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there has not been a specific move to target the 500,000 acres of non-commercially viable Coillte lands identified by the McCarthy report in 2010 for the development of mixed native woodlands (details supplied) in view of the problem of land availability for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47042/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department is not adopting the full suite of agroforestry measures that are funded and provided for within the rural development regulation for farming and forestry; the further reason he is not actively encouraging the creation of linear riparian native woodlands on farms to act as buffers to collect nitrate and...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion and the "Prime Time Investigates" team for highlighting the issue. The landlords who exploited and profited from the conditions that we saw on "Prime Time Investigates" are just animals. They are flipping animals and they should be in prison. Nothing like that should be tolerated. They are the lowest of the low. What is scandalous is not just...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In so far as the Minister claims that this Bill is geared towards water conservation, it is not directed at the majority of people but at a very small group which is identified as excessive users. We do not accept that is the main motive and we have expressed the view that it is a means of keeping a foot in on domestic charging so that over time the thresholds will be lowered bringing more...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not get it finished tonight.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who knows.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be through in the morning. This is quite an important amendment. It speaks to how seriously we take the question of conservation and who we think can help inform a policy or a conscientious approach towards the management, conservation and protection of our water resources. I made the point already that the first answer to that question lies with those who work in water...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many points have been made but it is worth underlining that if one talks to people in the local authorities, and this is true with regard to both housing and water, they always know what needs to be done. The problem has been that they were not resourced to do it. There are not enough people employed in the local authorities because we have run down the staffing numbers, particularly of...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly support this amendment. One of the shocking examples of the waste of money in this whole debacle of Irish Water was the installation of household meters. Anybody looking objectively and impartially at value for money for the public would have said this was madness. The amount of money that was spent on putting in these household meters was to capture what Irish Water itself said...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very relevant.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Acting Chairman saying that he feels our pain?

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a big admission.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a bit of a give away, a bit of a reveal.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said the Government was lying about its concern for-----