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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The arguments have largely been made but on the flipping of land, it is worth mentioning the Cherrywood development. The main investor bought it for a song. Let us remind ourselves - the biggest residential development site in the country was bought by a wealth asset management company which sat on it for quite a long period and then started to flip the sites. That is what caused the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister of State indicated in his response to the amendment that the promotion of culture, cultural space and infrastructure was a matter of policy rather than planning. I strongly disagree with him on that. I will give a concrete example I came upon when I was given a fantastic tour in the last week of the emerging Cherrywood development in our area. The town centre is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From what did the Minister of State quote?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To put it very simply, a strategy for culture and a requirement to provide cultural spaces in the development of an area are two related but different things. You can have a fantastic aspirational strategy and commitment to doing things but then not actually have the places and spaces to do them and it is not a requirement in the development of an area that those things be provided for and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a signatory to this series of amendments. The points have largely been made and we have somewhat discussed the matter previously. The natural restoration of biodiversity is key, as I am sure the Minister of State knows. To take forestry as an example, many of the attempts to increase afforestation turned out to be failures or even damaging because they were based on things such as...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a signatory to this, the point has been well aired but do we have planning and development that is mechanical or do we have planning and development that is holistic? That is really what is at stake here. If planning and development is mechanical and economically deterministic, it treats people like units and robots and the result is probably best summed up in Edvard Munch's famous...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a no-brainer, to be honest, in that, in particular when looking at a regional spatial strategy, we have to look at the state of water quality in a region. As Deputy O'Callaghan has already indicated, we are not performing well in this area. The poor state of water quality is pretty tragic given what the natural state of this country should be and how it is perceived by many people...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also ask the Minister of State to clarify the position. The point of our amendment is to provide the maximum possible amount of time for the public to have an input into a strategy or a revision to a strategy. I take the point that if one makes something, one still has to put it into a document that is consumable by the public. I understand that rationale to some extent. Our amendment is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take this opportunity to indicate that I will leave myself the option of submitting a further amendment for Report Stage. In the context of planning statements, I mentioned that the requirement to assess housing needs as part of the regional spatial and economic strategy should be more specific and should include an assessment of specifically social and affordable housing needs and not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we checking this? Are we complicit with the genocide?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not say that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolute nonsense.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Shannon?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shameful that the Taoiseach and other Government and Opposition representatives are going to the White House to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Joe Biden who he is complicit in the genocidal massacre Israel has conducted against the people of Gaza. It will be even worse if it is revealed the recent massive jump in the number of flights carrying weapons through Irish airspace has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is the policy of Dublin Bus, the National Transport Authority, NTA, or any Transport for Ireland, TFI, bus operators to record bus drivers' bathroom breaks alongside identifying information; given the lack of bathroom facilities at some bus termini and the length of some bus routes, if he thinks such a policy is appropriate; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given the duty of care that bus operators have towards their employees, if he or the bus operators have considered the potential impact of any policy to record bus drivers' bathroom breaks alongside identifying information on the mental health of bus drivers on account of compromised privacy; if he or the bus operators have considered...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport which persons would have access to any identifiable records of bathroom breaks taken by bus drivers; what measures are in place to ensure that this access policy is adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11246/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to make bathroom facilities available for drivers at all bus termini; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11247/24]