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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 737. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his targets for 2016 under the Social Housing Strategy 2020 in each of the funding models, including construction and acquisition. [34647/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 738. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, by category, and by local authority, of the spend on social housing support, including each of the different funding models, social housing construction, and acquisition, in each year since 2011 to date in 2015; and the projected funding for each of the various models in the coming years to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 739. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that was allocated from his Department to the Social Housing Strategy 2020; the amount of this that was, transferred from other budgets; new funding; collected from the local property tax; the amount of this revenue that, was spent; is projected to be spent over the lifetime of the Strategy; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Foreign Policy (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 740. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will bring to the attention of the European Commission, which, through European Union Council Regulation EC No. 2368/2002, represents Ireland and all other European Union member states in the Kimberley process certification scheme, of the urgent need for reform of the definition of a conflict diamond, in order...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 791. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the average annual expenditure on the arts as a percentage of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34484/15]

EU Council Decisions on Measures in the Area of International Protection: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Government’s decision to let 4,000 of those hundreds of thousands of desperate people, trying to flee the most horrific situations in Syria, Kurdistan, Eritrea and elsewhere, to come to this country. Our only response to people fleeing from these desperate circumstances has to be support and compassion. We should not, for one minute, allow anybody to encourage the idea...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State could elaborate on it a little.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should introduce the amendment properly.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What number is the amendment?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If they are grouped together, should the Minister of State not move it now to explain it to us?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not about voting. It is about explanation. The Minister of State's silence is stunning. We are dealing with a group of amendments and in the case of every other group of amendments we have dealt with, the Members who tabled them have all spoken, after which we received the Minister of State's response. It is astonishing that the Minister of State-----

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State responded to the points we made and then mentioned, at the end, that he has tabled amendment No. 124 to deal with this area.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It would be very helpful if the Minister of State would elaborate a little more about what he means regarding the independence of this body, who else will be on it and how it will be selected, so we can be satisfied that it fully addresses the concerns we have raised in our amendments. We do not wish to call votes for the sake of it. We would like to say that the Minister of State's...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The difference between what the Minister of State is proposing and what we are proposing, and I hope the Minister of State will speak to it and explain as he still has not done that, is that while he is making a statement that it will be independent in its functions, it still will have the ex officiomembers rather than what was proposed to him by us and the environmental lobby. We proposed...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whose telephone is that?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point has already been made - but it took an economic crisis for this Government and governments across Europe to recognise it - that we need independent economists to assess budgets, spending decisions and macroeconomic priorities so that there is an early warning signal, so to speak, with regard to mistaken behaviours that could wreak havoc on the economy and our society. Despite the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly endorse Deputy Stanley's amendment. Monoculture or overdependence on one or two agricultural sectors is a very dangerous game. We need to diversify enterprise and industry generally, as well as agriculture. The idea we would have an ever onwards and upwards beef export industry or we can solely rely on the beef and dairy sector is a mistake. It makes us vulnerable to any sort...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the point has been made.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 42:In page 8, to delete lines 10 and 11 and substitute the following:"(f) the findings of any relevant research on the effectiveness of mitigation measures and adaptation measures, including the management of soil carbon and the protection and rewetting of wetlands,". The amendment refers to another issue to which the Government must have regard in producing the national...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening to the scientists.