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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And we did it. Did we not do that?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering implementing pay caps for civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authorities (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering further funding for local authorities to support maintenance and repairs of council provided services, such as housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19520/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, what is ESG?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand the Minister correctly, he is just saying the investment strategy could rule out certain categories of investments, which will be developed by the NTMA in consultation with Ministers. Is that what he has just said?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but at this point neither the legislation nor the Minister is explicitly ruling out investments by the fund - or is he? - in companies that might help sustain the illegal occupation of Palestine or sustain, underpin or co-operate with Israeli apartheid. He is not telling us that this is definitely going to be the case, to be clear. Obviously, we would consider tabling amendments if he...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Deputy repeat that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister envisages it, how often would this investment strategy be reviewed, or how long would it be set for?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every three years. Why would the review period not be also set out by the Minister in the legislation?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My last question is to ask the Minister whether he envisages, in what he describes as his letter of expectation on the development of the investment strategy, that investments in companies that would be involved in illegal occupation, sustaining apartheid, actions that might be deemed to be war crimes or crimes against humanity would be excluded from this letter?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, we may consider amendments and we will also consider what the Minister has said.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there amendments to the Bill?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Final Stage of a Bill.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of that will come as cold comfort to Niamh and Anthony, for example, in the homeless hub in my area. They have two children and have now spent 20 months, two Christmases, homeless, and their biggest fear is that they will still be homeless next Christmas. It will come as cold comfort to Jennifer, who is in one bedroom with her two kids. She went on the housing list in 2008, the council...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [10626/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the former Taoiseach's visit to Washington on St. Patrick’s Day. [17961/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of the people who believes Leo Varadkar should not have gone to meet Joe Biden. Biden has said on several occasions throughout his career the following words: “If there were not an Israel, we'd have to invent one”. In those words, he revealed the true nature of the relationship between the United States and the crimes that Israel has committed against the Palestinian...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what statistics are recorded regarding the recipients of the solar electricity grant, individual home energy upgrade grants (better energy homes), grants for a home energy upgrade, free energy upgrades (warmer homes scheme), with respect to the value of the grant; the number of grants availed of by the recipient...