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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From where does the benchmark of 34% to which Mr. Lawler referred come? Is it standard across Europe that pensions should be 34% of average earnings? It is not a lot. He stated that average earnings are €44,000 at the moment. It is not really a lot. What is the particular rationale for that figure? Is it just tradition? Where does it come from? Is there any variation across...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not particularly. It is for anybody who feels like responding.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have a policy on this now so no indexation per sewas considered in the context of the budget. In the options made available to the Government now or which could be made available to the committee, Governments or anybody considering the matter coming up to a budget, how easy would it be to set out what the different options for indexation would deliver in advance of a budget? That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does. I thank all the contributors.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The utterly hopeless and disastrous situation in which many working people find themselves when it comes to trying to do the basic thing of putting a roof over their heads was summed up this week for me by a young man who came into my clinic. He works in retail and he is a low-paid worker. He works in retail and he worked all during the pandemic. His partner is also in low-pay, part-time...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On economic recovery, the Taoiseach is often fond of saying, rightly, that we should support people who are working. I have asked the Taoiseach repeatedly about the plight of people who are working but who are punished because their income goes over the social income threshold. I have mentioned multiple cases to the Taoiseach over recent weeks. I had another case this week of a young...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The review.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The longest consideration ever.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is self-evident.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Call it out for Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has nothing to say about Saudi Arabia then.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent communications with the President of the United States of America. [7680/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we are all glad to see some signs of de-escalation over the Ukraine, with Russia withdrawing some troops from the Ukrainian border. Our Government and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, are very quick to be critical of a possible attack by the Russians on Ukraine, or the massing of troops on the Ukrainian border, both of which are totally unacceptable. Yet there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [6393/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At a time when workers are rightly calling for pay increases to deal with the issue of inflation, I want to draw the Taoiseach's attention to the fact that Aer Lingus, a company that got a hell of a lot of public money during Covid-19, is forcing its ground operation workers to vote on a pay freeze until 2025 and, in some cases, take a 10% permanent pay cut on their restored duty allowances....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I note the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is sitting beside the Taoiseach. The Killian Woods report from last weekend on the shared equity affordable housing scheme would seem to suggest that the Government's affordable housing plan is looking increasingly like it is going to be completely defunct. I do not agree with that scheme because I think it is chasing already...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not see how that recruits nurses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the reality.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are for getting rid of the USC.