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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are no crew workers in those studios, however.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps I am innocent, but it seems very odd to me.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. O'Brien and Ms Quinn. It is to be hoped that what they described will be an eye-opener for people. We all agree, as they do, that we want to see continued State support for film, the arts and culture but we want it to benefit performers, actors and crews. They are telling us that support is not doing as it should in respect of that. To put it bluntly, and I asked this at a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Please do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does. It is a very stark picture and rather a depressing one, with all of this public money going in. I will fire a few more questions at Mr. O'Brien before my time runs out and I hope he can come back on them, and I know Ms Quinn also wants to come in. I understood from hearing what was said earlier that one contrast is that if someone is working on a film in Ireland just for a few...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. O'Brien answered many of the questions. I had asked what happens to actors and performers who do not want to sign a buy-out contract? How likely are they to get work if they were to say something like that? I asked the question about something in the executive summary of Irish Equity's main submission which our committee should certainly take very seriously. It pointed out that the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Ms Quinn and Mr. O'Brien.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The arts committee in 2018 recommended such a stakeholder forum. It should have happened but never did and we are the worse for it. It should happen as a matter of urgency. The DAC structure seems incredibly problematic. They are like mushrooms jumping up and down. They appear, disappear and make the whole thing opaque. You do not know where your intellectual property rights are gone....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Arkins think we are in serious breach of EU directives around state aid, etc? I think we are, and I would like a comment on this point. I refer as well to companies of scale and the other conditions in respect of what is happening in the context of section 481. I would also like Mr. Arkins to comment briefly on the studios here. I am curious about this point. Public money was...
- Creeslough Community: Expressions of Sympathy (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit-Solidarity, I extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to all those who lost family members and friends and to the wider Creeslough community. What that community has suffered with the events on Friday is utterly unspeakable. No words we can say can possibly compensate for the shocking loss and tragedy they have experienced, but they deserve tribute...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be aware that there are many thousands of people with defects in their homes arising from the behaviour of the cowboy builders of the Celtic tiger era. The latter did even not deem it necessary to build proper houses. People are facing huge bills in the context of fire safety issues, water ingress and so on. There is one particular case that I would like the Taoiseach to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [48334/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, we are in not only a climate emergency but also a biodiversity emergency, and often the latter is forgotten and neglected. That is particularly important when we think about our marine area and the protection of it. Not only is that sea an unparalleled store of biodiversity but it is also the most important carbon sink. If we destroy marine biodiversity or if we do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It means that developers cannot select their own sites at the expense of the marine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Developers should not select their own sites.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The developers are going to choose their own sites.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Here we go again with Fianna Fáil.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are; they have.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has designated the relevant project.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly what I am talking about.