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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No 126: In page 40, after line 35, to insert the following: 22.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the revenue gained from increasing corporation tax to 25 percent for corporations with over €800,000 in profits and in closing loopholes that exist that allow corporations to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his engagement with the proposed new CEO of the IAA; his views on the Covid-19 safety guidelines drawn up by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, on airline travel; his further views on the future role for the IAA in ensuring passenger safety during the ongoing public health crisis; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (12 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for his refusal of the request of taxi representative groups to halt the issuing of new taxi licences in view of the devastating impact of Covid-19 on the industry; the reason for his refusal to dissolve the Taxi Advisory Committee and replace it with a structure more representative of the taxi industry as part of the...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Boris Johnson is a wrecker. That is clear from his Internal Market Bill and his talk of breaching international agreements, resurrecting the threat of a hard Brexit and resurrecting fears, which must be resisted every inch of the way, of a hard border and so on. More generally, there is the economic damage that would be done as a result of a no-deal Brexit and the advent of tariffs, customs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had recent communications with the US ambassador to Ireland; and if so, if he will report on those communications. [35168/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The sacking of Mr. Donald Trump by the American people and the rejection of the majority of Americans of his hate-filled, toxic, racist and divisive agenda is a cause for celebration for people across the world. It is a major blow against the forces of the political far right who were emboldened by his toxic agenda, including small but growing forces of the far right in this country. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Democratic socialism.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Taoiseach said about-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should do it again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should read the accounts of student nurses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to get the money back.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [33231/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 20 October, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of student nurses and the fact that they are working during a pandemic where they cannot do other jobs for the most part, certainly in other healthcare settings, and are working long hours on the front line of the Covid-19 effort and not being paid. That is scandalous. In that engagement the Taoiseach, who obviously was not scripted on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions for Palestinians under Israeli occupation are horrendous at any time but the fact that last Tuesday week Israel carried out, in the midst of a pandemic, the biggest demolition of homes of Palestinian families, 11 in number, making 80 people homeless including 41 children, is truly shocking. The pictures show the demolitions destroying water containers, farm equipment, solar...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [35167/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I spoke to the Taoiseach about his failure to pay student nurses and the use of temporary agency contracts for contract tracers and medical scientists carrying out testing, he baulked when I suggested that the Government is trying to fight Covid on the cheap. I should rephrase it and state that the Government is trying to fight Covid on the basis of cheap labour and utter gross...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This, by the way, reflects the experience of another group of similar contact tracers I mentioned a while ago who were on those zero-hour contacts-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for whom it took eight weeks before they got paid a cent by CPL. This is an outrage. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on the Indemnity Agreement; the details of the 18 religious congregations that it indemnified; the amount these congregations have contributed to the redress board; the value of these contributions that were made by the transfer of property to the State; the details of these properties; the amount by way of...