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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will honour the agreement made by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) and introduce amending legislation in order that fishers can submit complaints under SI 709/2003 and its successor, SI 672/2019, relating to excessive working hours and insufficient breaks and rest periods, to the Workplace Relations...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I do not know the exact number - I am not sure whether the Government knows either and if it does not, it should - there are tens of thousands of people on district heating and communal heating systems in multi-unit apartment complexes. They pay three, four and five times the rate of other providers. They have no right to switch to another provider. They are not regulated by the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I start with a reminder that the crimes committed by the State and church against mothers and children were crimes from which we, as a society, must learn. This is not just the case in Ireland but globally. Given the long struggle here involving the victims of the various church and State institutions that persecuted, in particular, women and children and, more specifically, working class...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank everybody for all their great work on all the documents they produced around the budget. I know it is a huge job. I am glad to see the tax expenditures report as well, which is an area at which our committee is looking. I will ask a question about that in a minute. On the overall view of the budget, however, it was suggested that the overall impact of the budget is "strongly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it fair to say, though, taking into account the projected level of inflation, particularly because a lot of the once-off measures will have an impact shortly, that, as we head into next year, after the bump people will get from the one-off measures, the ESRI's assessment will be correct, that is, that people will see income losses and that certain groups, particularly vulnerable ones, will...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the point Deputy Mairéad Farrell brought up, may I try to elaborate on the question about the cost of the HAP, RAS and leasing schemes and the current expenditure threat, that is, the financial threat of the current expenditure between those schemes being €1 billion, with rents going up and, therefore, the potential for the payments under those schemes to go up? The point...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But financial projections-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I suggest that they are not and that they involve both Departments? It is very much a public expenditure concern if there is a very big area of current expenditure. Yes, it is absolutely the job of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to say, "Here is our plan for public housing, and our policy is to reduce slowly but surely the level of HAP, RAS and leasing payments...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the moment, however, there are no particular projections of an incremental reduction over a period of years. The witnesses will know the way we project out expenditure over a five-year period or whatever. There are no projections as to how these payments, the nearly €1 billion going out now, will reduce, are there?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would just be useful for us to know.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From the point of view of expenditure of public funds, it would be quite useful to know that. I have made the point. On the tax expenditures, the tax expenditures report acknowledges that it does not cover all tax expenditures. I think it identifies €7.7 billion of tax expenditures as the ones it looked at, the large ones, the significant ones or whatever, but it does not include...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is corporate tax.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry. I should have made that clear. It is corporate tax.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just to signal that it would be good to get a response on that because it is huge. Without a shadow of a doubt, it revolves around the area of intellectual property and royalties from same, intangible assets and all that kind of stuff, which we know is the big area where profit shifting is going on. At the very least, it bears scrutiny and some explanation when such a big figure is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Research and development.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Research and development are included.