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Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, insofar as this is modelled on section 481, does the same designated activity company, DAC, approach apply where it is done on a project-by-project basis? What was the Minister's favourite cartoon when he was younger? Was it "Tom and Jerry"? Let us say I am employed by Tom and Jerry DAC and then I am employed by Speedy Gonzales DAC. I am then employed by Wile E Coyote, DAC,...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In order to have that relationship between employer and employee somebody has to be the employer, but the people who are getting the money are saying they are not employers. This is the point. It is so elementary and it has to be addressed. Screen Producers Ireland is like the film branch of IBEC. It has no entitlement to making an agreement for an industry, particularly when its members...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are real consequences to not having proper employment relationships between the producers and employees in the film industry.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I acknowledge that the Minister engaged, listened and took action. That action has brought some improvements and it has put a bit more pressure on. However, to be honest, what the Minister is being told by Screen Producers Ireland is not the truth. He needs to look beyond it. I have quoted what its CEO said in a witness statement this year in the Labour Court. She does not just say...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 14: In page 79, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "33.Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the functioning of section 481 relief for investment in films, particularly in relation to the degree to which it is meeting the requirement to meet "quality employment and training" and to...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said it would be scary if interest rates rose. That is a vulnerability. I accept interest rates are low at the moment and it is sustainable at this point but that could change. We learned to our cost after the crash in 2008 where that can lead. I will make an elementary point about the borrowing of money. You borrow off rich people, and you pay them interest. People who have...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 11: In page 20, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “16. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the income that would be generated by introducing four new income tax bands as follows: (a) earnings between €100,000 and €150,000 taxed at 50 per cent; (b) earnings...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 12: In page 20, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “CHAPTER 4 Wealth Taxes Reports 16. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before Dáil Éireann, on the amount of revenue that would be raised if he were to tax the top 5 per cent of households 2 per cent of their accumulated wealth less 1...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We tabled this amendment because we believe in tax justice. We believe in an equitable distribution of wealth and income which we are a very long way from. The Minister says we would not get these people whom we need and we would not be competitive given the tax breaks that these incredibly well-paid executives can get elsewhere and therefore we need to do the same. I do not know the...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is fine. I have made the point and I made it extensively on Committee Stage.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We can boil down the argument of the Minister to there being one law for the rich and one law for the rest. That is actually what SARP amounts to. People who earn more than €70,000 - quite a few of these people earn millions of euro a year - get a special and very substantial tax break on their enormous earnings which ordinary workers do not get. Such people also get tax relief on...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What time do we finish?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In that case, we will press the amendments at this stage.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 44: In page 96, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “Locus Standiin environmental MAC cases and in proceedings to which Part 2 applies 110.For the avoidance of doubt where the applicant for judicial review under this Chapter, or under Part 2, is- (a) a body or organisation (other than a State authority, a public authority or governmental body or...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 42: In page 95, line 33, to delete “damages.” and substitute “damages, but such undertakings shall not be prohibitively expensive.” The Bill does not treat a maritime area consent, MAC, as being environmental in the same way as a development consent. We are concerned about that. As I said on our earlier amendment, if one does not...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Trying to keep up with this is difficult, but it is important. That is the problem: there is a lot to deal with in a very short time. I particularly want to draw attention to amendment No. 44 and the application for judicial review by a body or organisation the aims or objectives of which relate to the promotion of environmental protection. Such NGOs and so on which have knowledge and...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is all about access to justice and the right of concerned parties and particularly NGOs which would have a particular concern about the potential impact of human activity or development in the marine area if consents are given and decisions are made which they think could be detrimental to that part of the marine environment. That access to justice is important. I do not really buy the...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the difference between "prescribed" and "specified"?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would the Minister of State care to elaborate?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was very enlightening.