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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are precisely the issues that need to be discussed. People acquire through the operation of law a contract of indefinite duration when they work a certain amount of time over a certain period for a particular employer. The difficulty in this situation occurs when those cases are taken and the employees go in. Every time, without exception, as we can see from the transcripts of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody is suggesting that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am running out of time. The Government needs to make a decision on this issue and stop batting it back to the WRC. The latter does not know what to do with it. Somebody needs to clarify the situation. The relief is given out with a purpose, which is to support the industry, create a permanent pool of skilled employees and create employment. The Government, using public money, is trying...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Inter-group transactions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Carey might refresh my memory. Is that the list where some of the recipients have, beside the name of the producer company, figures between €10 million and €30 million? It is slightly alarming that we are giving this company somewhere between €10 million and €30 million.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to hear that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But we cannot see them.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find that problematic, although I do not know whether Revenue is bound by certain rules here. This DAC thing drives me around the twist. How is anybody supposed to know? We will get on to the Equity issue next week, and our guests will have read the submission. One phrase that strikes me - people do not use phrases for nothing - refers to depressed income strategies and internal...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is referred to as being a risk.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a couple of quick points and they will genuinely be quick. I know this has been explained but it does concern me that the inter-group transactions are up to €35 billion as a cost on the revenue table this year. That is up from €16 billion the year before and €12 billion the year before that, which is an enormous jump. I am a great fan of the Revenue's table, by...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The stamp duty inter-group transactions. On the face of it, in the table produced by Revenue, it is a cost to the people of €35 billion, having jumped from €16 billion the previous year. It is absolutely enormous.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. One last thing, the stakeholder issue is a theme that comes across in terms of the reviews and I ask the committee to consider that we significantly up the ante on that. We had an arts committee that recommended a stakeholder forum around section 481 a few years ago. Certain participants said they were not participating and then, even though a Minister and a committee was in favour...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a bit sceptical.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except the ones who were blacklisted.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht If she will support a boxing club (details supplied), a hugely successful community boxing club with a person and Olympic hopefuls, that still does not have a permanent home and is operating in utterly inadequate facilities and to work with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to assist them as a matter of urgency; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she intends to take to improve the conditions of employment of workers and performers in the Irish Film Industry; her views given the large subsidies going to the producers in that sector, that it is meeting the requirements for quality employment and training and the industry development test; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider raising the maximum contribution of housing adaptation grants towards building costs given the huge rise in the cost of building works making it impossible for persons in need of these grants to make up the difference between the maximum grant and the cost of the adaptation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the reports in the media of a 35% increase in the discretionary housing assistance payment limit and changes to rules around local authorities ability to purchase homes with sitting HAP tenants who are in receipt of an NTQ on grounds of sale, if he will provide details regarding both these initiatives, including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the numbers of those in need of housing across all local authorities; if these figures will include those that are on housing assistance payment and rental accommodation scheme transfer lists as these tenancies are not secure and permanent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 741. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the application for the fair deal scheme for a person (details supplied) is taking so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31875/22]