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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Deputy Matthews want to go first?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the Minister's consideration and, on that basis, I will wait to see what he does. However, he has to do something to try to accommodate this. No one wants to fix what is not broken. Nobody wants to elongate a process. Just to be clear, that is not the logic of what we are saying. We are trying to make sure there is transparency, to use the Chair's word, and that the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much information can we, or the public, be given about the actual exports?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the Minister, it is fair enough to try to act to prevent things unnecessarily being lengthened. We have already said that, by and large, that does not happen and the process works. The Minister should accept that there may be circumstances in which a development could take place based on an amendment, which members of the public have never seen, that is substantial and that...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first sign of this is the kite-flying around the plan-----

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to renege on the promise to extend sick leave next year for workers. Already, the new Harris regime is suggesting it is going to renege on a promise to give additional sick leave to workers in order to back the interests of big business. Then, of course, there was the standing ovation over the words Simon Harris used about being repulsed, rightly, at the actions of Israel in its...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael is putting a brave face on today's events, but the real background to the ascension to office of Deputy Simon Harris is an outgoing Taoiseach and one-third of sitting Fine Gael TDs abandoning the Fine Gael ship and being afraid to face the electorate at the next general election. The reason they are abandoning the Fine Gael ship and do not want to face the electorate is because...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The business and issues facing the country have effectively been driven off the agenda for the rest of the week. That to me is unacceptable. On the first day of the new Taoiseach's ascension into office, there will be no Leaders' Questions and no Taoiseach's Questions. A debate on disability has been bumped off the agenda. Questions of finance have been bumped off the agenda. That is not...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports of election-rigging in last February’s election in Pakistan; if he has taken the matter up with the government of Pakistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will investigate the practice of members of the Defence Forces being denied their presentation on the basis that they have made protected disclosures about issues in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15276/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is the case that members of the Defence Forces cannot take cases to the WRC for the issue of being penalised for having made a protected disclosure about issues in the Defences Forces; if so, the reason this is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15277/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide all available information on the recipients of the wheelchair-accessible grant for taxis; for a breakdown of these recipients, by category (individually owned or rental taxis); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14316/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of safety concerns of taxi drivers at night; for an update on his latest engagements with taxi driver groups on this topic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of reports that the cost of renting vehicles from taxi rental companies may be contributing to the national taxi shortage; if he is aware of reports that the ban on individual sale of taxi plates may be contributing to the issue; if he is aware of reports that rental companies are charging high fees to rent out plates in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the latest updates on addressing taxi shortages at peak times; if this includes extending the operating hours of public transport services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14319/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many incidents and complaints have been logged in the past 24 months with regard to public and staff safety on the Sligo to Dublin train service, particularly between Sligo and Mullingar and vice versa; if any security or staffing measures will be implemented to provide safe transport for customers and staff on this train...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 813. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year outturn on illness benefit in 2022. [15348/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 921. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of breaches of protection, safety and barring orders (including interim barring orders) that were made to An Garda Síochána in 2021, 2022 and 2023; the number of subsequent arrests that are made following such reports; the number of convictions in court on foot of these reports; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the lease agreements that Coillte has entered by category (e.g. agricultural); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13570/24]