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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the form of redress that is available to former residents of an orphanage (details supplied) given reports of abuse and its exclusion from the mother and baby homes redress scheme (details supplied); whether the confessional character of the orphanage has played a role in the State's attitude towards liability...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter in relation to an after school service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10308/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What numbers are those amendments?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 712?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a point that is specifically on the amendments. The whole point of a development plan is that it is democratically decided, so contravening it is a serious matter. I would be interested to hear Deputy Matthews come back on this. The amendments suggest this should be overridden because we have climate objectives, or that this might be allowed. On the one hand, it is imperative, but...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All I can say is that the parents who come to me who are having issues accessing CAMHS for their children are, in many cases, are going through a nightmare. Even now, after all of the stories I have been told, I cannot get my head around the shambles and the mess the system seems to be in. I do not claim to be an expert, because I think the people who truly are experts are the parents who...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which is the Chair's amendment?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think section 21(2) covers what we are trying to do in this amendment. I take the Minister of State's point about why the Bill would exclude certain ones. The Cathaoirleach mentioned sport, which is a reasonable point. I accept that we should rethink our amendment. However, there is a difference between what is in section 21(1) and what we are trying to do here. To say that we...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take one step forward.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. It is the minimum required information to have a proper review. If we do not take these things into account, we will not fully be able to discharge our environmental, climate change, biodiversity and, indeed, housing needs. That is the point; this information is needed to make a proper plan or have a proper planning framework. To be honest, I would add to the list when...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that amendment No. 557?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is often a tension between maximising potential and sustainable planning and development. The point of this is to rephrase it. Much of it is the same wording as the Minister's own draft. It is to just change the emphasis so there is not a conflict and it is fully understood that there is no maximising potential that is not sustainable and written and hard-wired into any notion of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief, as the point has been made. Do we have the maximising of the potential of regions and then they are subsequently screened against a notion of sustainability or do we start by saying all development has to be sustainable development and the two are not separate? My reason for saying that is because how it often works is we have developers saying what they want and then we...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a clear difference of opinion so there is not much point in labouring it. There is a disagreement here, though. I will just give one example. We got a policy passed in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown that there had to be green roofs on everything. It was a People Before Profit proposal. It was overturned by a decision of central government, which was able to override -----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to remember the details but there was some legislation that was brought in centrally, which essentially gave the Minister the right to override a decision that had been made by the council regarding green roofs so it went out the window. That demonstrates the tension that exists between the imperative to maximise the potential for development, which is what the section 19(2)(a)...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a question as much as anything else. Maybe I missed the explanation. Why is it a building control standard and not a planning one? I do not get that. I believe concrete accounts for about 8% of global emissions. If it was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of CO2 after the United States and China. I do not understand how it is a building control issue to decide on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what avenues are open to a person (details supplied) who has to apply for a passport if the copies of their birth certificate, name change and gender recognition certificate are notarised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9767/24]

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation in RTÉ at this point is an absolute shambles. It has been going on for nine months since the revelations about the extraordinary, large, secret payments to Ryan Tubridy on top of the obscene salary he received and, indeed, the salaries many other top presenters received, and many executives were receiving obscene salaries. There was outrage, there were hearings, there was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the legislative programme, I understand the priority for the spring term is the childcare (amendment) Bill, which is to revise the Child Care Act 1991 to reflect best practice developments in the sphere of child welfare and protection services that have evolved in the 30 years since enactment and in light of the constitutional recognition of children as individual rights holders. It will...