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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I have acknowledged previously, the Minister, more than any other Minister - there are a few Ministers who potentially should have been involved in this - and his officials have responded and there have been changes and improvements. The awful irony in all of this is that the people who brought the issue to the attention of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Culture, Heritage and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely appreciate the engagement by the Minister on this matter, but more needs to be done. I will come back to this on Report Stage. I ask the Minister and his officials to further consider what I have said. It is unfair that the people who brought this matter to my attention and to the attention of the Oireachtas have, in effect, been blacklisted. While one union may be happy...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will table an amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will press it on the basis that I can come back to this matter on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not quite understand the section and I ask the Minister to explain it. I have read the notes and the memorandum and I have tabled a parliamentary question. I want to understand what is meant by the change in the terms and the extension of the eligibility for section 481 to cover labour-only services. I am sure the Department officials know that I am concerned about bogus...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I comment on the section?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. I was trying to bilocate again, unsuccessfully this time. We had an amendment that, unfortunately, I was not present for. It relates to the extension of the section 481-type relief to the digital gaming sector. We have a concern about this. We want to support things that will create employment in this area, which is one where there could potentially be jobs and so on. We...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the European Union is proposing action against Israel on the issue of Palestinian hunger strikers and demanding an end to their administrative detention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56568/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (18 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had an engagement with either the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or the Ethiopian authorities regarding the current situation pertaining to the Tigray people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56569/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to urgently address the issue of testing and we need the Minister in here to discuss it. People cannot get a PCR test for love nor money in Dublin. People are hours and hours on the website, if they can get an appointment at all. People are talking about antigen tests being free, and they should be, but we need PCR testing and we need walk-in PCR testing to be available. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Bríd Smith could not get tested all day yesterday.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we extend it with questions? That would be helpful.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach add questions to the Minister to the end of the debate?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I asked the Taoiseach to reopen applications for the PUP for those hit by the new public health measures and he declined to commit to that. Over the weekend, the work available to taxi drivers has gone over a cliff because of the night-time curfews and people pulling back and listening to the public health advice. Offices not going into work on Monday has further decimated the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So what, musicians should get a job in a bar. Is that it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is those affected by the pandemic.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the social impact assessments carried out by his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit since 1 January 2016. [55796/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked repeatedly, for about five years now, for a review of the income thresholds for eligibility for social housing. Is there any assessment being done of the effect of not raising those thresholds? As I said to the Taoiseach last week, as well as to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, I am now dealing with two families in homeless accommodation who are going to be evicted from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the case of another family, the mother is a care worker and cannot even take a promotion that is going in her organisation because, if she did, she would be thrown off the list.