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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), the reason there is no record in either the High Court or the Circuit Court of any court action being initiated by Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and the person concerned; if this suggests either Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is misleading him, or is Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), the way in which Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company arrived at its decision that it had the authority-power to establish a company without the knowledge of its shareholders, something which is not in compliance with the Harbour Act 1996, the very Act which established...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that persons (details supplied) were on the board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; his views that their actions represented a fundamental breach of trust between him, as the shareholder, and the directors involved, and if their position is now untenable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27408/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the date persons (details supplied) were appointed as directors of the Irish International Diaspora Centre Trust Limited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27409/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (7 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), the reason the Irish International Diaspora Centre Trust Limited, as shown in the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company profit and loss accounts for the years 2012 and 2013, shows that €67,904 and €120,234 respectively was owed to Dún Laoghaire Harbour...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask in all honesty what does the Government have against lone parents. What it has done to them to date and is now proposing to do to working lone parents can only indicate a vindictive desire to attack lone parents and their children. The facts speak for themselves. No matter what way one tries to spin it, since the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, started to make...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on; we have been protesting since 2012. We spent hours here with the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We spent hours here with the Minister.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can tell the Minister of State that I am tired of standing here and I would much rather be somewhere else. I honestly feel, however, that the more we keep this discussion going the more the people out there will have an opportunity to look at the details of what the Government is doing. What has been done in circumventing Second and Committee Stages was a deliberate attempt to hoodwink...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a red herring to suggest that we do not care about rural dwellers and the money they pay into group water schemes. Our position is that people have a human right to water. That includes rural dwellers and people in group water schemes. They should not have to pay for water other than through central taxation. The infrastructure for rural areas should be provided through progressive...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not having fun when I see this stuff. It is not fun scrambling around trying to figure out what is in legislation only to discover that we are extending one of the most controversial aspects of what the Government has done over the past year. I refer to the fact that property taxes and motor taxes are going into Irish Water. That is not funny. If one asks the demonstrators to...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The sort of skulduggery at the back of this amendment and the various other amendments brought forward at the last minute to circumvent the normal process of legislative scrutiny and oversight is precisely what has brought people to the streets this evening and precisely what has brought unprecedented numbers onto the streets in fury and anger during the past year. They are there because of...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no time limit.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is from one of the Government's own.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is possible to recommit them.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We deserve an answer to this. In the response to the complaints made about the manner in which the Minister at the last minute put in these very substantial amendments the line the Government gave out was that all this was well flagged. That was the line repeated ad nauseam at the weekend by the media, that all these changes were well flagged. Can the Minister of State explain why, if they...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----unless he was attempting to deliberately bypass the Second and Committee Stage debates where there would be proper scrutiny, oversight and debate on those issues? There can be no other explanation. If the Minister of State believes in the democratic process and a proper legislative procedure, this Bill has to go back to Committee Stage when we can properly scrutinise these amendments.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There it is again “well flagged”.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of the meeting.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard it.