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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the new committee in his Department to deal with special education. [17962/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 511. To ask the Minister for Health whether injections for osteoporosis with the medication festeo are still reimbursable for medical card holders; to provide a rationale for their removal if these injections are no longer available for medical card holders; what recourse medical card holders who have previously required such injections have if they have been removed from the list of...

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise that I was not able to listen to much of the earlier discussion. I was busy with something else in this place. This is a very important issue. It is of particular interest in my area because there are plans for a very significant offshore renewable energy development off the east coast. As anybody who is concerned about the climate crisis we are facing knows, the starting...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the members of Fórsa in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council who are visiting. They might be interested to know we are discussing trade union-related matters, but this time with respect to members of our Defence Forces. The Bill seeks to allow them to associate with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. “Allowed to associate with” is an interesting phrase...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And we did it. Did we not do that?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering implementing pay caps for civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authorities (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering further funding for local authorities to support maintenance and repairs of council provided services, such as housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19520/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, what is ESG?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand the Minister correctly, he is just saying the investment strategy could rule out certain categories of investments, which will be developed by the NTMA in consultation with Ministers. Is that what he has just said?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but at this point neither the legislation nor the Minister is explicitly ruling out investments by the fund - or is he? - in companies that might help sustain the illegal occupation of Palestine or sustain, underpin or co-operate with Israeli apartheid. He is not telling us that this is definitely going to be the case, to be clear. Obviously, we would consider tabling amendments if he...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Deputy repeat that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister envisages it, how often would this investment strategy be reviewed, or how long would it be set for?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every three years. Why would the review period not be also set out by the Minister in the legislation?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My last question is to ask the Minister whether he envisages, in what he describes as his letter of expectation on the development of the investment strategy, that investments in companies that would be involved in illegal occupation, sustaining apartheid, actions that might be deemed to be war crimes or crimes against humanity would be excluded from this letter?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, we may consider amendments and we will also consider what the Minister has said.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there amendments to the Bill?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Final Stage of a Bill.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

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