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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: I thank Mr. Downes. It would be great if he could send the relevant documents on to us.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment No. 768 is very similar in its rationale to Deputy Matthews's one. This is a very real issue. Let us say a Part 8 application is put forward that goes out to public consultation. Members of the public make their submissions and on the basis of those, very substantial changes, or what might be deemed substantial or material changes, are made. That can be then agreed and the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. Deputy Matthews's amendment is saying the modifications should not be substantial and I am saying if it is substantial, or "material", as we are calling it, then it should require new public notice and go out for public consultation again because it is deemed to be substantial. Tweaks are one thing, but a dramatic or substantial change is something quite different and it is only...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept it is a slightly tricky area. I cannot remember every single detail of the case to which I refer so I will not go through it specifically but, roughly speaking, let us say there is a proposal on a road configuration that is going to make a two-way system into a one-way system and perhaps add a cycle path and there is a public consultation on that but the proposal never mentions the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the amendment would add strength to what I am saying, and perhaps to what Deputy Matthews is saying as well. I agree generally that Part 8s are fine. I see no substantial difficulty in having this safeguard against the occasional one that makes a substantial change where people could then be presented with a development on which they never had an opportunity to comment. The...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has expressed his concern about this getting caught in a loop where it just never ends.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have actually never heard of it happening in respect of housing. It is less likely to be about housing.

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]