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- Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Central Bank reports do not lie. This is from the Central Bank quarterly report at the beginning of this year so Deputy Durkan can say what he likes.
- Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true.
- Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Here is a more down-to-earth example. What does the Finance Bill not do? It does not get rid of the special assignee relief programme, SARP. There are still not enough people who know about this. It is really a shocker. I genuinely thank the Minister for giving me the figures and details on it. He sent a paper out on it recently. I do not know what the figure was last year, but the...
- Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, it is People Before Profit-Solidarity by the way. I have just come from the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which was an unfortunate clash so I missed the Minister's introduction. I heard some but not all of it and I apologise for that. At the meeting, Professor Niamh Maloney discussed the consultation process the Commission on Taxation and Welfare will have. It was...
- Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure if Deputy Barry is coming.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a lifelong opponent of antisemitism. More than a decade ago, I brought an Auschwitz survivor to this city, organised meetings and got her on "The Late Late Show" to remind people of the horrors of the Holocaust, and I would do it again. We should always remind people of how horrendous the Holocaust was. The point we were making is that Israel consistently equates criticism of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on a second.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all have questions tabled, and some people should not get more time than others.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. That is just not on. On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have equal entitlement to that time allocation-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and normally there is a one-and-a-half-minute or a one-minute restriction on the questions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----so everyone gets to ask a question and the Taoiseach gets time to reply.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is your people speaking longer than everyone else.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So am I.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not. That is rubbish.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a copy of the advertisement to sell off forests.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [53178/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not your slot.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Any talk of economic recovery is rendered meaningless if the cost of living skyrockets, as it is doing for ordinary working people. The amount of tax relief the Government gave them in the budget was miserable for the average worker, against a background of an increase of between €500 and €1,000 in energy costs for many households, disproportionately hitting the less well off....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume we will get the same amount of time as the two previous speakers.