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Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing and all other practices to extract Hydrocarbon from coal seams, shale rock and tight sands in Ireland. I am aware that the week before last we debated Deputy Tony McLoughlin's Bill which I supported to ban fracking. In parallel with whatever work he was doing on that Bill,...

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015: Leave to Withdraw (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That leave be granted to withdraw the Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the motion is not what has been sought by the Not On Our Watch group, we want it amended and we want a debate. If it is what has been sought and what has been discussed in this House, happy days. If there is any row-back in the motion that is to be tabled by the Government in terms of the 200 unaccompanied children, we want a debate on it.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I object to that?

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not agreeing to that. We cannot sign a blank cheque.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What?

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was two weeks ago. The lock-out has happened since then.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking for a bit of urgency to respond to something that is happening now.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to repeat my point on the proposal in regard to Thursday. If the lock-out goes ahead on Wednesday, I simply cannot believe we will finish out the week without a serious discussion in this House. It is a dereliction of duty for the House not to debate the issue in detail and try to find a solution.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Business Committee did not meet last week.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This has come up since then. If the Minister of State, Deputy Doherty, does not understand that an urgent crisis has arisen since last week, then she is living on a different planet to the teachers and tens of thousands of pupils who have been discommoded.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I urge the Government to allow for such a debate.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put that to the Government. I refer to the all-party motion on Calais, to be taken without debate. The problem is that we have not seen the motion. When will we see it? I am not signing a blank cheque for a motion that relates to the fate of 200 extremely vulnerable children. I will not agree to an all-party motion, which we have not seen, without debate. Can we see the motion?

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. Since the Business Committee last met the week before last, an issue we have discussed this morning and which is of the gravest importance to the entire country has come into view. We have major disruption of our secondary schools. Students or teachers are locked out, depending on how one wants to view it.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a proposal. There has been claim and counterclaim today on the reasons for the teachers' dispute and the method by which it can be resolved and that requires that we have a debate.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is simply unacceptable that this could continue.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My proposal is that we have a debate. I accept that we cannot have it today given the schedule before us, but it is reasonable to propose that there is a proper debate tomorrow to give everybody an opportunity to clarify his or her views and to put forward proposals to resolve it so that this lock-out does not continue and tens and thousands of young people are not further discommoded.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.