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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe that when the history books are written, what happened with the property and housing sector in this country after the crash, with the tax set-up and the political decision, as I see it, to invite investment vehicles into the country to "refloat" the Irish property sector, will turn out to be one of the greatest mistakes ever made in this State. It has contributed directly to the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To me, that is tax avoidance and it is big multinational corporations essentially writing their own tax bill. The Government facilitates that. It has been battled in courts and all the rest of it but at least some people in the EU Commission believed we were giving tax rulings to certain companies in order to allow this kind of thing to happen. It is scandalous. Our argument is that the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: But Deputy Doherty could possibly speak to the carbon tax amendment.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then I could speak to it too.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will boil down to the human level the question Deputy Doherty has outlined very well about the rationale for carbon tax and what it is intended to achieve. I got a call this week from somebody who lives in a council house in which the windows and doors are completely inadequate to insulate the house against the cold weather. She moved into the house just a while ago. The whole row of...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Was it the Garrett FitzGerald Government that fell over VAT on children's shoes? I am not sure about the Minister's take on the historical debate around climate change and the issues around addressing it or failing to address it and whether he is right that it is a carbon tax. However, if the energy price crisis now unfolding for people continues at the current pace because they...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed. The Planning and Development (Amendment)(Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 will finish Second Stage at 4 p.m. tomorrow and will begin Committee Stage at 6 p.m. Meanwhile, Report on Final Stages of the Maritime Area Planning Bill, involving exactly the same spokespersons, will be on in the Dáil Chamber between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. That is completely unacceptable...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless you have a time machine.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The same spokespersons cannot be in two places at one time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is directly clashing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I speak very briefly? It is not a political point. It is actually about-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am speaking on the Order of Business.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did not respond to the question I asked.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Honestly, he did not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did not respond to the question I asked about two things being set against each other where the same people are-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: South Africa has done the world a favour by identifying the Omicron variant, and the way we repay them is that the European Union, with the support of the Taoiseach's Government, has consistently refused the calls from South Africa and many other nations, almost the entire global scientific community and many non-governmental organisations for the lifting of the intellectual property...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: South Africa is asking for the waiver, not me.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: South Africa is asking for the waiver, not me.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: South Africa is asking for the waiver. Will the Government give it to them?