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Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to increase my chances in the lottery.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This saga of due diligence has gone on at length and the harbour company has not signed off on the draft referred to by the Minister. It seems to want to do everything to slow down and delay this process, and our examination of the workings of a totally dysfunctional entity that needs to be dissolved. I ask the Minister to directly intervene as the main shareholder to stay the plan to evict...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Genealogical Society of Ireland has written to me asking me to ask the Minister to intervene as the main shareholder. The situation is outrageous. This is a fantastic society and a huge resource and amenity for the local people that has links to all sorts of organisations nationally and internationally. It would be unconscionable if this harbour company was to evict it and I appeal to...

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Go Cuala.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Merger (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the transfer of ownership of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38852/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers Development (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the possibility of a national maritime and water sports centre for Dún Laoghaire harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38850/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any meetings or communications with either a company (details supplied) and or the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown county council in the context of the An Bord Pleanála decision with regards to the cruise berth in Dún Laoghaire Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38849/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus is still fulfilling its public service obligation in view of recent changes to bus routes in the Dún Laoghaire area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38853/16]

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly the point. It is an intermittent source which still requires us to have other sources. There are serious questions. Wind Aware Ireland, of which, excuse the pun, the Minister will be aware, suggests that, at best, wind can only impact approximately 3% or 4% of our emissions. Nevertheless, a massive proportion of the public money going into renewables is going into this...

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the person or bodies overseeing wind farm development across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38629/16]

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite frequent rhetorical commitments by the Government to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the 2015 report on emissions by the Environmental Protection Agency was damning. It showed that overall, emissions were increasing by 3.7% and that emissions have increased under every single major heading including agriculture, industry, transport, the energy industries and manufacturing. Does...

Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The litany of different people responsible for different aspects suggests to me that nobody is in charge of the overall plan regarding wind energy. This is the problem. My starting point is deep scepticism about industrial wind and the emphasis we are putting on it regarding reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which are not decreasing but increasing. We produce 22% of our electricity from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met. [36050/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What discussions, if any, is the committee having on strategic development zones? I had a briefing yesterday at Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on the Cherrywood strategic development zone and what is, in effect, the building of a new town in south Dublin in my own constituency. This morning I was at a meeting of the Irish Glass Bottle Site Housing Action Group, which was...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is right, though.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to safeguard existing fixed wireless broadband networks in view of the ongoing tendering for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38628/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether it is acceptable that in areas of the public service disclosures under the National Vetting Bureau relating to minor traffic offences such as driving without an NCT and road tax should be the basis for disqualifying persons from public service employment when those offences bear no relation to ensuring child protection as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the advice that can be given to a person (details supplied) looking for information on a High Court case that was taken against that person's company by the Central Bank in 1999 and 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38548/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Ministers and Deputies who sit on the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services are paid extra for this; if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38532/16]