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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope we all agree - certainly, everyone claims to agree - that climate change is an urgent priority throughout the world which requires us, without delay, to find ways of reducing carbon emissions and developing renewable and genuinely sustainable - the key word is "sustainable" - energy sources. The flooding, extreme weather events and desertification we are seeing in locations across the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Taoiseach-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question. The Ceann Comhairle did not interrupt any other speaker.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not interrupt anyone else who did exactly the same thing, which is just typical.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You do it every time, without fail.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is concern regarding conflicts of interest on the part of people involved in promoting these projects and the crossover between semi-State agencies like the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and the private companies of some of the key personnel involved. These are serious issues given what happened during the property boom, and they must be debated. We should also discuss and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the number of times the Cabinet committee on climate change met last year. [16187/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from that, the other model hoped for was that leasing arrangements with the private sector would work. However, in many areas of Dublin the landlords, even if they entered into agreements two years ago when they needed tenants, are now pulling out of those because they are not a good deal for them. A big pillar of the plan, therefore, has collapsed and I do not see how it can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do the witnesses agree that alarm bells need to be rung about the current housing crisis? How would they characterise the housing crisis? It strikes me that with rising rents, the cuts in rent allowance and the chronic lack of provision of social housing, significant numbers of landlords are pulling out of the leasing arrangements the Government hoped would deal with the provision of social...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will put in place to address breaches of the 1993 EU working time directive in private nursing home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17476/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Industrial Relations Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reforming the anomaly in the industrial relations system where workers who go through the full third-party system of rights commissioners, the Labour Court and the Employment Appeals Tribunal and receive awards from all bodies are left empty-handed by employers who close down but do not go into formal receivership or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the lines of communication between his Department and RIA; the frequency of meetings; the procedures for dealing with issues that occur in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17534/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place in direct provision centres in circumstances of deaths of residents in terms of notification, burial and communication with other residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is extraordinary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us take a person who has lost a job and as a result does not have the capacity to do a deal with the bank. The bank then moves to repossess the home. It knows that the person has no money and will be struggling to put a roof over his or her head, yet it still proposes to initiate legal proceedings to try to get blood out of a stone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Boucher not believe that is cruel and vindictive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to Mr. Boucher that it is unbelievably cruel that the bank chases people who have lost everything for money that it knows they do not have. What is its purpose in doing that when it knows it will be unable to get any money from the people concerned? What is the purpose in taking to court a person whose only income is from social welfare benefits and trying to get from him or her,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Boucher's responsibility is to the bank's shareholders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore, the bank chooses to torture people from whom it knows it cannot get money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the bank is doing could not be described as anything other than punishment. What it is doing is punishing people because it knows they cannot pay, but it still demands that they do so, including by bringing the legal system down on top of them to force them to pay. There is no word describe it other than "punishment".