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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shocking that someone can be left with lifelong injuries-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while working for the State and suffer dire financial consequences, as well as the medical impact suffered.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste look at this issue urgently?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt the British Government has a lot of questions to answer, and I think most people believe it does not want to answer them because of the extent of British state collusion with the people who carried out the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and, indeed, other massacres carried out by the Glenanne gang. The Irish Government, however, has very serious questions to answer as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds like the families will never be given the files, will never be given an explanation and will never get the truth and justice they deserve. It is shocking beyond belief that the families and survivors of this atrocity were put under Garda surveillance. They are entitled to know who ordered that, what files were generated on foot of that and why it was done. The original...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, following the recent 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the engagements she has had with the families and survivors of the bombings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26525/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she has taken to support the families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in their campaign for justice and truth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26528/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans in relation to assisting the families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in their campaign for justice and truth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26526/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all files in possession of her Department relating to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings will be released to the families and survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26527/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, we have just passed the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, where 34 people were murdered and 258 injured in an atrocious bombing carried out by loyalists, almost certainly with the collusion of the British state or elements of it. Families and victims are still fighting for justice. The question is about the Government and the State's responsibility...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank IFAC for all its work and I thank the witnesses for the presentation. If I understand correctly what they are saying, their advice is that the Government should not generally go beyond the 5% rule - the rule that is not a rule- and if it does, it needs to pay for that with additional taxation. I think that is essentially what they are saying. They seem to lean towards the most...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just reading it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My view is that we have to raise additional revenue. Workers deserve a break – for example, with the universal social charge – and loading taxes on people who are being hammered in one way or another by a cost-of-living crisis is not appropriate. The crisis has been alleviated a little but, as Professor McMahon pointed out, inflation is still way ahead of what it was before it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Professor McMahon will be familiar with my party’s view. It is actually the most prudential party in the whole Oireachtas because it would pay for things by taxing profits and wealth, which has shot up. It is worth saying something not often said in these discussions, namely that corporate profitability has gone through the roof. Is that not an accurate statement? Net household...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do understand that. I have two points. It is worth saying, although it is never referred to, that corporate profits are absolutely stratospheric at the moment. They are heavily concentrated, for sure, but I do not see pharmaceutical companies going anywhere. A huge amount of the wealth is concentrated in pharmaceuticals. From information gleaned from those who have started to examine...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believed he knew everything-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I come in again here?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry for side-tracking things into a discussion about construction. It was only because the witnesses had quite a lot about construction workers in that section they talked about. They did hint at policy in terms of that because the council, rightly, recognises the capacity constraints that are a serious problem for us. Professor McMahon more than hinted at it when referring to the...