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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning any new tax measures to address growing income inequality in view of the recent reports of increases in senior executive pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider closing down tax loopholes such as section 110 that could be utilised by oligarchs and other financially dubious entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21449/22]

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government spent I do not know how long telling us it did not have the flexibility to reduce VAT because it would impact on the derogation. Then we discovered it could do so, as we had said. Europe was happy to move heaven and earth in some respects in response to the war in Ukraine but not in other respects, particularly in respect of trying to protect working people from the economic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [17987/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach suggested the Government's Housing for All policy is working. I would like him to try to explain that to three people in the Gallery. They are Tony, Radoslaw and Seán, who are three of the five remaining tenants in the St. Helen's Court complex in Dún Laoghaire. This Friday they will be at the Four Courts, where a vulture fund will seek an enforcement order to evict...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is all very interesting. Will the Taoiseach guarantee that Tony, Radoslaw, Seán and the other two households remaining in St. Helen's Court will not be thrown into emergency accommodation after Friday's court proceedings? That is what they want to hear. That is the commitment they need. Beyond that, why are the vulture funds allowed to do this for nothing other than greed? Why...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government can change the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the rest of them?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for all the Financial Emergency Measures in Public Interests legislation restoration dates over the remainder of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish his review of the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised on several occasions the issue of a low-paid, front-line group of people who worked all during Covid-19. Without them, many of our shops, hospitals, public transport services and many public and private corporate entities could not have functioned. I refer to private security workers. Rank-and-file security officers recently set up a new campaign, Security Officers United,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----outside to Kildare Street at 1 p.m. tomorrow to meet some of these private security workers and have a social dialogue with them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [14280/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were always on about that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the Deputy's last point, a general strike across the country to address the cost of living crisis would be a good idea at the moment, and would be a good example of unity on a Shared Island basis, but that is not the point I wanted to make. The Taoiseach referred to the role of women on an all-island basis. Notwithstanding the Government's commitments on the new national maternity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest Shared Island dialogue initiatives. [17986/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wrote to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, last week on foot of his request for suggestions on how we should deal with the ongoing housing emergency while at the same time providing the accommodation needed for Ukrainian refugees. I outlined detailed proposals and asked that we discuss the issue this week. We now have a housing...