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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister considering any additional revenue-raising measures in the current budget? As he is aware, in People Before Profit we are very prudential in our budgeting so that when we argue for substantially increasing expenditure beyond what the Minister is proposing, as we do, we always propose revenue-raising measures such as wealth taxes, increases in employer PRSI rates and increases...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all of the contributors. There is so much to think about and we are covering so much ground that it makes the head spin. The idea of targeted measures is a mantra that has been trotted out but we need to spell out what it means. I would not mind hearing a little more on what the witnesses think it means. If targeted measures were to mean, for example, having lots of means-tested...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask one brief additional question? If we were strictly following the original rules around fiscal space and all the rest of it, how much fiscal space would be available in this budget?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it be fair to say the space would be a lot larger than our guests are allowing for in terms of expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The cost-of-living crisis is the big issue facing us all. IBEC has referred to some businesses that are in trouble and has stated that without support, they could go to the wall. Dr. McDonnell from the Nevin Economic Research Institute is talking about the need for targeted measures for those who are most adversely impacted by the cost-of-living crisis. I think we should always refer to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the case that even before this crisis hit, the cost of living here in a number of areas mentioned was much higher than in the rest of Europe? I refer to childcare, housing, education and in a number of other areas, and that was pre-Ukraine and pre- the current round of the cost-of-living crisis. Why is that the case? Why do we have higher childcare costs than everywhere else? Why do...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, unless the Chair is giving me more time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On 6 October last year, just one week before the budget, People Before Profit brought the first motion into this Dáil calling for price controls on energy and the renationalisation of the energy supply sector to run it on a not-for-profit basis, to protect people against a cost of living crisis that was only in its infancy at that point. At that stage it was being warned that people may...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the war in Ukraine has worsened the situation but that war does not explain wind energy companies making super profits even though their costs have not changed a bit. Nor does it explain the profiteering of energy companies, which has been mentioned already, in respect of gas from the Corrib field, gas from the UK, from where we get most of it, or from Norway. It also does not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should lead not follow.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before the summer recess, I repeatedly asked the Taoiseach to facilitate a debate on the housing and homelessness crisis, particularly the review, or lack of a review, of the income thresholds for social housing, which means that thousands of families are being thrown off housing lists and denied housing assistance support. Over the last few days, there has been a drip-feed of reports that...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I get certainty for next week?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are considering-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not on this one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his views on his Department’s recently published annual report 2021. [44836/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach’s capacity as part of the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality, I have raised with him on a number of occasions in the last year the issue of Accessible Community Transport Southside Ltd., ACTS, which is a door-to-door, voluntary-run, not-for-profit transport service for people with wheelchairs. It moves hundreds of people who otherwise could not get out...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we get two or three minutes extra? There are only one or two questions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach address the other couple of questions?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was brought up with the Taoiseach and-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All agencies.