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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not mentioning the company or the individual. Without identifying them, I am simply pointing out that this person had worked for the same company in receipt of section 481 relief on multiple successive productions, all funded under the section. His representative group gave evidence to the arts committee here that there was blacklisting and lack of quality employment and training, and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can reflect overnight and maybe then he will agree with us.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering a revision to budget 2024, given the context of the wide range of inflation projections for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to revise funding for any public services in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to revise his allocation of capital spending across any Departments in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46959/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he decided to increase capital expenditure by only €250 million in 2024, given the large surpluses in the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47028/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to ban log imports following the confirmation of the spruce bark beetle (ips typographus) in Scotland; if so, the date he will bring in the ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47172/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You should not be likening those events.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Raz Segal is an Israeli historian who specialises in Holocaust and genocide studies. He is among many who in the past couple of weeks have described what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza as genocide. This is an Israeli historian. The Taoiseach may have seen many Jewish people in New York, Canada and across the world raising their voices over what Israel is doing to Gaza and describing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach believe it is time to end European Union subsidies to the apartheid State committing genocide against Palestinians?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent European Political Community meeting in Granada, Spain. [46434/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the Cabinet committees on which he sits. [46433/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach again about the Government's attitude towards preventing people ending up homeless. Obviously I think it was an absolutely disastrous decision by the Government to lift the eviction ban. The majority of people who end up homeless do so because they are evicted through no fault of their own. With regard to the other element of why people end up homeless I will cite...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the State apologies issued by Taoisigh in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [43876/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the State apology to mothers and children who went through the mother and baby home institutions, but the fact is that approximately 24,000 people who went through those institutions as children were excluded from the redress scheme. The redress scheme is still not open for applications, which is pretty incredible given the age of many of these people. The exclusion...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Connolly and Pringle for moving this motion, which we are glad to support to try, at this critical movement, to stop the deliberate, sly push by the Government to abandon our neutrality. In the short time available to me, let me make an obvious point. Let us look at the strength of language and the litany of adjectives used by Government spokespeople to describe the brutal...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In broad terms, I think this Finance Bill has failed to address the cost-of-living and housing crises that are imposing such hardship on hundreds of thousands of families and workers in this country. It could have done so, but, as is typical of this Government, it failed to do so. This failure is driven by a commitment to always protect the haves over the have-nots, the very wealthy over...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The severity and extent of our housing crisis is shameful in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but it will also increasingly become, and is already, an economic problem. When workers cannot afford to live because rents and house prices are so high, that is a serious economic problem. It is increasingly the case that people are going out to work and working very hard but rents...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [43875/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [41216/23]