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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]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the channels available to members of the public that are not employees to make a protected disclosure in instances in which they have a belief they have evidence of significant wide spread or systemic malpractice and policy failure in areas of the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38434/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the channels available to members of the public to raise concerns or make complaints regarding beliefs concerning widespread malpractice and policy failure in the health service, in the area of medical research and the trial use of certain drugs, or similar medical or drug related research undertaken by other areas in the public service such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 329. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a system in place whereby persons in mental health institutions who do not have any family members to advocate for them have an advocate assigned to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) did not have their social worker replaced after their social worker went on maternity leave; if he will arrange for a replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38534/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann will be removing the staff from the Sandycove and Glasthule DART station to make it an unmanned station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38752/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 482. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of permits that were issued to carry munitions of war through Ireland or Irish airspace in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33832/16]

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Gino Kenny on his fantastic work on this Bill. I would also like to mention the members of his back-office team who have put a great deal of work into it. I am very proud of the Deputy and of the fact that we are here to do something that will benefit many people and alleviate the suffering they are going through. I thank the other political parties that have facilitated...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This legislation is directed towards trying to deal with the housing crisis and at the beginning of any discussion on that crisis, we must start by reminding ourselves of the human reality. It came home again in the past week when a man in Dundalk died on the street as a result of exposure to the cold. It is almost two years to the day since Jonathan Corrie died close to the entrance of...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One can get many students into small spaces and there is much money to be made in that. Many people can be put into hotels and there is much money to be made in that as well. There is not as much money to be made in building decent and affordable residential property. Such people go where the money is and the Bill will still encourage them to do so rather than delivering social and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 453 of 5 July 2016, if home help will be provided as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37963/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives he will put in place in view of the fact that orthodontic surgery at St. James's hospital is no longer taking referrals from Loughlinstown hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37962/16]