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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (30 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to significantly increase the national afforestation programme from its current levels in view of climate change mitigation objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37725/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (29 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if traffic offences are taken into consideration for job applications requiring Garda vetting with local authority leisure centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37180/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Conditions (29 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the planning and environment regulations regarding environmental impact assessments in the regulatory framework here has been amended to comply with the EU directive, as was indicated by the previous Minister (details supplied), to remove obstacles to a foreshore licence application by providence resources to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (29 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 707. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a person has a right to refuse installation of a smart meter on their property on the grounds of the unknown health effects of wireless radiation and to provide any health and environmental impact studies that have been done in relation to their safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37619/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] - Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I often get a sense of the surreal when I am in this Chamber because of the common disconnect between the assertions and statements of this Government and the reality, outside in the real world, to which those statements relate. On no issue is that feeling more acute than on the issue of Ireland's supposed military neutrality and the repeated assertions of the Minister of State at the...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to find it for the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She may have worked in the public service.

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like Deputy Smith, I met Lillian and Jean. It immediately chimed with me because, just that week, another woman, Helen, came to my clinic and her story adds another layer of complexity, injustice and discrimination to the story that Deputy Smith has so articulately presented that faces a whole cohort of mostly women. It illustrates the point well. Ms McLennon reached retirement age...

Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, last week when he telephoned me. In that call the Minister suggested the outline of the committee, on the basis that there would be fair representation of all the Dáil groups and that there would be one Fianna Fáil and one Fine Gael representative from the Seanad and two others. On that basis I said that I would have to take the proposal...

Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That begs the question if it is a stitch-up. We want an open debate. We want this committee to decide its own plan of action, its own terms of reference and it should be selecting its own Chairman. The position holder should not be selected in a backroom deal between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and it should not override the proper proportionality of representation that should come...

Business of Dáil (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will make this brief. Earlier it was essentially suggested that if we had spoken less in the debate on the Finance Bill last night, we would not have this problem. I object to that logic because we have a job - a solemn responsibility, I argue - to scrutinise legislation, in particular something as important as the Finance Bill. Any suggestion we should have hurried things up to avoid...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to add my voice to the comments pointing to the urgency and importance of that. I welcome the fact that-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry. In that case, I will raise another matter. The disability equality (miscellaneous provisions) Bill involves the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is on the legislative programme and is listed in the programme for Government. The Tánaiste can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that she suggested that the Bill would be in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a commitment to full restoration of pay to public sector workers that experienced pay reductions of up to 20% between 2008 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a person on a low income such as a social protection disability payment should be charged for every bank transaction in a bank (details supplied) while others on higher incomes are charged little or no fees; his further views on whether this is social discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36633/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prescribed low protein foods are required to prevent neurological damage and to supplement the diet of adults and children with phenylketonuria, PKU; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that no new low protein products have been added to the long-term illness card list in more than six years;...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interests of not keeping us here all night I will take the Minister's response and consider it so I will not press this for now. Some mechanism must be found to force these companies to cough up the information. If there is a real problem in us not getting the information as the Minister suggests - I will think about what he has said - it is a reasonable point. We need to take a...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 83:In page 64, line 16, to delete "may" and substitute "will"

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 83 is different from the previous amendment.

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 84:In page 65, to delete lines 8 to 10.