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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have taken sides in a conflict between military blocs.
- Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. It frustrates me that every few months, or maybe every couple of years, there is a moral panic about antisocial behaviour, young people, violence and criminality and politicians jump up and down and call for more police, but what rarely happens is a serious engagement with the communities that are affected by deprivation, neglect,...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that Ireland has taken to address human rights violations in Bahrain at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva; the actions that he has taken to request the release of all the political prisoners in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56813/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if school caretakers who worked during the pandemic are included in the Covid bonus payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56776/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the case of a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56770/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the threshold for free legal aid was last reviewed; if there are any plans to review it in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56867/22]
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The argument that if regulatory measures are introduced, whether that is controlling rents to make them affordable or other measures to protect tenants, it will lead to an exit of landlords simply proves that the private rented sector is incapable of dealing with the crisis we now face. That is the inescapable conclusion. Notwithstanding the specifics of this credit or this or that measure,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the witnesses from the OECD. I certainly am in favour of wealth taxes. Ms Perret said any country looking to introduce a new wealth tax should avoid the pitfalls of previous such taxes. Will she give examples of wealth taxes she considers were poorly designed? Has she any examples of wealth taxes elsewhere in the world that were better designed and that have, in her opinion, worked?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. In the OECD statement, property taxes were referred to as having various pitfalls and as “under-used and poorly designed”. Could the witnesses elaborate a little bit more on good and not so good examples?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, absolutely.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is my view now, rather than the report’s view. The difficulty is that in recent times – this is the second time in the past 20 years – we have seen property values and house prices, whichever way one wants to look at it, shoot up to astronomical levels. We saw it pre-2008 and we are just about to see us reach the same levels of property prices that we had before...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the institute's opening statement, we should reduce the CGT because it "is having a dampening effect on economic activity", and that reducing it could "improve the environment for start-ups and mature businesses, leading to an increase in transactions". I ask the witnesses to elaborate on that point. I do not really understand it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know much about this particular tax, so I am not trying to catch the witnesses out. Could the witnesses give me examples so that I could understand it? I just do not quite get the dampening effect and why it is problematic. To me, CGT is a tax on the appreciation of assets. I think that is fair enough. I would be inclined towards increasing it, not reducing it. I would like to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am still struggling a bit, but I appreciate the witnesses' answer. Mr. Brennan referred to the LPT as "a key stabilising component of our tax system". In what sense is it stabilising? I do not understand that either. What is it stabilising?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What does the institute say to the arguments that the likes of us would put forward that it does not take into account the income of the people who own their family home, in that sense it can be very unfair on people and they have very little control over the price and the value of their property, particularly in a market which most people would agree is pretty dysfunctional at the moment?...