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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the public expenditure envelope allowed for in the existing fiscal space is adequate to meet the needs and demands for key areas of infrastructure and crucial public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40482/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NewERA Administration (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NewEra has transferred to Coillte and Bord na Móna in respect of developing alternative energy and other new industry; the criteria which has been applied to a cost-benefit analysis of value for the use of this public funding; the amount of NewEra funding which has come from the National Pension Reserve Fund; the other sources of funding it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 414. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct Coillte to provide full and clear ownership and title deeds for Massey's Wood and the Hell Fire Club with regard to the current major development proposal for these sites; if he will instruct Coillte to provide all of the ecological and biodiversity studies and reports, including species lists and so on, that it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 415. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the latest afforestation figures; the amount of funding which has been made available on an annual basis for afforestation since 2012 in view of the fact that planting rates have remained low; the position regarding the funding shortfall year on year; the annual shortfall for 2017; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 416. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the latest research that has been conducted by the Forest Service into the climate adaptability of commercial and native tree species in view of ongoing climate change threats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40371/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the information showing the extent of abandoned and failed tree plantations in counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Galway and Clare; if he will provide the latest carbon calculations for the forest estate and the projected carbon figures into 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40372/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided by the Forest Service to a non-governmental organisation (details supplied) since 1996; the criteria which has been used to qualify this funding; if there was an opportunity for other forest NGOs to apply for similar funding; if there was a tender process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Remit (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 457. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the EU funding criteria attached to motorway infrastructure in respect of the planting of linear native woodlands for buffering alongside new motorways has been applied; the reason there appears to be a completely ad hoc approach to the existing motorway planting; if there are management plans for the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Remit (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to finish off the native tree planting creating native linear woodlands on land that is readily available in view of the fact that motorway planting does not appear to be coordinated or consistent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40375/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Motor Tax (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person is liable for a full month's car tax if he or she purchases a car part way through the month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40169/17]

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be honest, I am surprised by how tame the criticisms are and by the use of the word "excessive". Even according to the French President, Mr. Macron, this is genocidal violence. It is textbook ethnic cleansing, as the UN representative implied. Some 400,000 people have been driven out. The treatment of these people is reminiscent of scenes from "Apocalypse Now" or "The Deer Hunter". It...

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in contact with his counterparts in Europe to condemn the treatment of the Rohingya people in Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39875/17]

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all absolutely delighted at Ibrahim Halawa's release. He has had four years of his life stolen from him without any evidence against him, something which became apparent when the trial began. This raises the question of what he was doing on trial in the first place and how he could have been incarcerated for four years. The greatest credit goes to his sisters and family for their...

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in contact with President al-Sisi with regard to the continued detainment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39874/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the seriousness of the housing and homeless crisis and the rather odd decision at the last minute of the Government to withdraw its amendment and vote outright against this Bill, I call for a vote by means other than electronic means.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With every Government announcement and policy change over the past three years, the housing crisis has gotten worse. The number of homeless people and the number of families and children in need of housing have gotten worse rather than better and the tragic deaths of people sleeping rough on the streets continue. Why would a proposal to enshrine the right to housing as a basic human right...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is three years since the Constitutional Convention recommended the right to housing be enshrined in the Constitution.

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past hour, the media has been reporting that a 41 year old man with ongoing health problems was confirmed to have been found dead. He was homeless and sleeping in a tent with his partner in Bray over the weekend. This is the third rough sleeper found dead in the past number of weeks. I do not know the exact circumstances of this personal, human tragedy for this man and his family...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Verhofstadt for his contribution. I have no doubt about the stupidity and, frankly, obnoxiousness of the Tory position when it comes to the negotiations about Britain's exit from the EU. I am thinking particularly of its anti-immigrant policies. Given that the EU insisted on the cruel punishment of our citizens for the banking collapse, can we take Mr. Verhofstadt seriously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Verhofstadt for his contribution. I have no doubt about the stupidity and, frankly, obnoxiousness of the Tory position when it comes to the negotiations about Britain's exit from the EU. I am thinking particularly of its anti-immigrant policies. Given that the EU insisted on the cruel punishment of our citizens for the banking collapse, can we take Mr. Verhofstadt seriously...