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Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The senior Ministers who delivered the budget have scuttled off. We did them the courtesy of listening to their diatribe of propaganda to justify their budget, but they could not do us the courtesy of listening to our response. That says everything about this Government because it does not listen. The people will not be fooled by this budget. Despite all the leaked strategy, all the spin...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to extend the help to buy scheme to include second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to deal with the growing problem of persons on HAP receiving rent increases in cases in which their HAP payments remain fixed and they are required to make top-up payments but cannot afford them, particularly social welfare recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant or assistance is available to a medical card holder towards the cost of electricity for a COPD machine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49128/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if a new medical card can be applied for retrospectively for a medical bill in circumstances in which the person applied for the card within eight weeks of the treatment but did not receive the card until after eight weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49412/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have a 19% rate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair trade.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are they going to go?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I, too, wish to pass on my condolences to the friends and family of Tom Burke. Tom was a bright presence outside the gates of Leinster House and just a very nice person. He will be sadly missed here, although more so, obviously, by his family and friends. I was going to address my question to the Taoiseach. I meant the Tánaiste. The co-Taoiseach, perhaps. People Before Profit is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Corporations earned €200 billion and paid €11 billion in tax. In other words, workers paid 20%, on average, in tax and corporations paid 5%. Why does the Tánaiste defend the corporations instead of looking after working people?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those are scare tactics in order to justify the pitifully low levels of tax these corporations are asked to pay. As even the US Chamber of Commerce and representatives of many of these multinationals have said, the reason they are here is not primarily or exclusively the tax rate. It is to do with the fact that we are an English-speaking country, we are within the European market, we have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not answered that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the data centres.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, in response to the People Before Profit motion seeking a deferral on carbon taxes to prevent further winter deaths and fuel poverty, the Government reiterated its promise or commitment to continue with increases in the carbon tax. Can the Minister explain how the Government can morally justify how the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Government have spent weeks...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How does the Government justify those extraordinary double standards?

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To put it simply and bluntly, energy poverty is going to kill several thousand of our most vulnerable citizens this winter. So-called climate action in the form of the carbon tax is going to kill many thousands of our most vulnerable and elderly citizens this winter unless the Government does something about it. That is what we are appealing to the Minister of State to do. We are edging...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit has proactively supported the vaccination campaign and has encouraged people to get vaccinated as a critical measure to give us a layer of protection against Covid-19. The vaccination programme undoubtedly has done this, putting us in a position whereby, fingers crossed, we can edge our way out of the grim period we have been through and the terrible hardships, mental...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Government confirmed over the past weeks that we are actually trying to defend a tax haven status for big multinational corporations in this country? While the rest of the world has finally recognised that staggeringly profitable corporations making billions in profits should pay a greater contribution, a minimum effective corporate tax rate, Ireland is almost alone in trying to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The French finance minister has said that the decision is already made, by the way. He just said it today.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (5 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's role in the certification of section 481 film relief and in monitoring compliance with the quality employment and training conditions of that relief; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47960/21]