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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This amendment relates to the key question of targets so that we can chart whether we are making concrete and tangible progress towards reducing CO2 emissions or whether our mitigation plans for reducing emissions are just aspirational general policy objectives and not really measurable in terms of real improvements and reductions. This goes to the heart of the matter we debated on Committee...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have not even met them for this year.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Craig is still on the beach in Killiney along with seven or eight other people.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would take four years.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because they cannot make enough profit.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is telling that some of the amendments tabled by the Opposition that were specific in terms of targets for CO2 emissions reductions were ruled out of order on the basis that they would be a charge on the Exchequer. I know it has nothing to do with the Minister, but I find that fact interesting, because that tells its own story. The Government does not want specific targets in the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's attitude to these amendments sums up why the political system is so discredited and why people are so alienated from it. I am surprised he is shaking his head because the language the Government parties used when they were elected about democratic revolution was used precisely because they knew that the slaughtering the previous Government received at the polls was at least in...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question of climate change is simply too important for there not to be the fullest possible scrutiny and oversight of mitigation plans and of the actions to be taken to reduce CO2 emissions. I do not see why the Minister should resist these amendments, of which mine is amendment No. 50, which all make the same point that these plans need to be assessed and scrutinised by the entire...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Wallace should not be pessimistic.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the ever-increasing number of landlords who are refusing to accept rent allowance, and the extremely low level of the rent caps in view of rising rents; the reasons these issues are contributing significantly to the rising levels of homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33041/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending rent allowance support to those persons who are working full-time and who are on very low incomes, in view of rapidly rising rents and the growing phenomena of the working homeless and bearing in mind that the Government's policy is to move to the housing assistance payment scheme, which allows for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out, in tabular form, the expected revenues from Irish Water in respect of domestic water charges for 2015, and for 2016; if he will provide details of the subventions to Irish Water from the Government for these years, indicating the sources of those subventions; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of restoring all cuts in central Exchequer funding to local authorities since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33460/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we get the rich to pay taxes?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I express great relief that the Taoiseach suggests his personality is very different from the British Prime Minister's because I would hate to think he had anything in common with some of the rather bizarre goings-on of the British Prime Minister in his younger university days, with strange engagements with pigs. That, at least, is a relief.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Less confidence inspiring is the Taoiseach's attitude to the concerns expressed by the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, and what lies behind those concerns. There is a need for the Taoiseach to very sharply distance himself and this country from what is motivating the Prime Minister in his attitude towards the EU referendum. I am less concerned about the European Union than I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am nearly finished. He was taken to some part of the west and was told that basically, he would have to pay not tax if he set up his business there. His response was that was all very fine, not paying tax, but he asked where were the roads and said taxes have to be paid in order to have roads. He went on from that to say that the key issue facing Europe - Mr. Corbyn is now also saying...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was his point. It is that sort of disillusionment, that growing gap between rich and poor, that growing alienation from the political institutions across Europe that is the biggest threat to Europe and the European Union.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the issue of a referendum and the possible withdrawal of Britain from the European Union in his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32854/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the Government's position on British demands for changes to the treaty of the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32855/15]