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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current methods of registration of births; if there have been changes to the methods for registration under Covid-19 restrictions; if there are delays in registration of births currently; if so, the average length of the delay; if this is causing delays in newborns being given a PPS number; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commission on Pensions (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if organisations (details supplied) will be allowed to be represented on the Pensions Commission for which she is responsible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37289/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made the point yesterday that the research and development tax credit involves such a substantial amount of public expenditure that an analysis of the benefit to society is required. Perhaps the Minister can give us the latest figures on what is projected for this year in terms of this tax credit but my understanding is that it is approximately €700 million and that has been rising...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will briefly give another example of public bodies on which this money would be better spent. In the recent budget I was quite flabbergasted by the Estimate for health expenditure. As we know, the Estimate was significantly increased in the context of Covid-19 and rightly so but in the area of health research in the HSE, there was no increase this year at all. I was absolutely amazed by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 171: In page 66, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “PART 6 REPORTS Report on Knowledge Development Box and other research and development tax reliefs 55.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on the Knowledge Development Box and other research and development tax reliefs and provide a cost-benefit...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister tell us the latest available figure for intra-group transactions? I have raised the issue of intra-group transactions as a very significant example of these huge giveaways to multinationals using labyrinthine structures of subsidiaries to avoid tax. Up until recently, the Revenue tables showing the tax reliefs and allowances that are available contained a heading labelled...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful if the Minister could come back with the figures. This is an enormous and growing category of allowances - or loopholes, in my language - which big multinationals with multiple subsidiaries are exploiting in order to avoid tax. I understand that he does not have the information now, but I would also appreciate if the Minister could confirm whether there has been a change...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was on CPL.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach come back to me on that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [36672/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I got a letter yesterday from the HSE's health business services, HBS, in response to a parliamentary question. It is the interestingly named business division of the HSE, which seems like a contradiction in terms. Why do we need a business section of the health service? This was a response to a question about the contract that was awarded to CPL for recruitment in the context of Covid-19....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach talked about his previous incarnations in government in terms of the survivors of industrial schools and the things he did. One of the scandalous things done under a Fianna Fáil Government was the decision to limit the liability of the religious congregations responsible for the abuse of those who went through the industrial schools and such institutions to €128...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with church leaders. [35422/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the data protection unit in his Department. [35169/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the recent furore surrounding legislation relating to mother and baby homes and the issues regarding attempts to seal information relating to survivors, I have been inundated with contacts from survivors who are particularly concerned about the issue of industrial schools. One thing that I did not know was that the data in the archive for the industrial schools was outsourced and is in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason on-course bookmakers have been excluded from the Covid restrictions support scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36165/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can intervene with banks that are refusing mortgages to workers whose employers are in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36144/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for not allowing children's swimming lessons under level 3 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36549/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Honey Park, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, is excluded from the catchment area of school patronage for Blackrock, Booterstown and Dún Laoghaire (details supplied). [36159/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport for a school (details supplied) has been further increased to allow for the safe transportation of physically very vulnerable school children during level 5 or other levels as children are in overcrowded buses and are at increased risk of Covid-19 infection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36480/20]