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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he intends to put in place to ensure availability of affordable homes in south Dublin, in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take in relation to the cohort of people who earn more than the limit for social housing but are not eligible for cost rental on affordability grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately raise the HAP and homeless HAP limits, considering the ever increasing numbers entering homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7013/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is concerned about the increase in family homelessness and the lack of three bed homes coming on stream via the Part V programme; what changes he intends to make to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7014/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Water Safety (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 409. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm that Ireland has amongst the worst drowning rates in Europe; whether she intends to remedy this by increasing the number of lifeguards employed, ensuring proper training of all lifeguards, extending the months of the year that lifeguards are employed to cover the whole year, and by providing all lifeguards with the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which cluster? Is it all on the same road?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying it is not a good thing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not force them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The countries the Taoiseach visited are very much on the front line of what I will call the escalating new Cold War tensions between the expanded NATO and Putin and his bloc, as it were. It is worth noting that the Balkans is the crossroads of competing empires. Because of that, it was the place where the First World War began, and historically it has been so. These empires are banging up...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chinese regime is a brutal, totalitarian regime. It has engaged in across-the-board suppression of any dissent and wholesale persecution of certain groups. The Uyghurs were mentioned. In fact, it has been suggested that the Uyghurs are victims of a possible genocide and certainly victims of a really brutal suppression of an entire national and ethnic group. Did the Taoiseach raise...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to the western Balkans. [2796/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his meeting with the President of China. [6660/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2797/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a fundamental problem with the World Economic Forum as a gathering where the world's most profitable and richest companies and billionaires rub shoulders with politicians from around the world, primarily to pursue their own interests rather than the wider interests of society. One thing of interest I notice was that Hines, the wealth and asset management company and owner of a very...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion to discuss SMEs and the supports they need. The first thing I want to do is to advocate on behalf of the 26,000 small enterprises who are the taxi drivers of this country. They are very concerned, at the moment, about moves to deregulate the taxi industry that are being spearheaded by some other SMEs that - do not get me wrong -...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there has been an increase in the amount of ammunition for automatic rifles expended at the Curragh and the Glen of Imaal army ranges since the beginning of 2021; and whether any of this ammunition was used for training soldiers from NATO countries. [6786/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To which amendment is the Deputy speaking?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Deputy talking about the planning statement?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have submitted a number of amendments on this grouping dealing with biodiversity, or the lack of reference to biodiversity, in the national planning statements and elsewhere in the Bill. I will just add to some of the points that have been made. As our amendment suggests, biodiversity and the protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity is the poor relation of the climate...