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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister decides that further ex gratia payments will be made beyond that date, will the tax exemption also carry on for those?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: From the Finance Bill point of view that is fine. The exemption will continue. It seems very odd to have a date at the end of September 2022 for deciding who is eligible for the ex gratia payment. It is very likely that some people will discover that there were illegal birth registrations after that date. The Birth Information and Tracing Bill is only really happening now and many people...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the figure on how much has been released?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: An amount of €10 million has been released.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A very small amount.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is difficult to understand the commitment of the Minister and the Government to the help-to-buy scheme, because it is not just the political Opposition that has been critical of it but pretty much every mainstream economist and economic thinktank. Just about everybody is saying this does not make any sense and that it will contribute to house price inflation. Like Deputy Doherty, I hate...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. The point has been made.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we have had enough.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. [53575/22]
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At the weekend, there was further evidence of the desire of Fine Gael to abandon Ireland's neutrality with its resolution to get rid of the triple lock arrangement and, essentially, create more flexibility for the Government to deploy Irish troops in military adventures and conflicts. That is an outrageous attack on our neutrality and is not in line with what the majority of people want....
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is visiting NATO bases for fun.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The US is too.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if a climate action unit has been established in his Department. [54847/22]
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I note the Taoiseach mentioned climate change and security. I wonder did he raise the point that the single biggest institutional emitter of CO2emissions in the world is the United States military. Did he raise the point that major military powers are not even required to reveal their CO2emissions? We count everybody else's emissions but we do not count the US military's emissions.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because there have been estimates done which suggest it produces about 51 million tonnes per year but it is not required to reveal that. I find it amazing that the Deputy would even joke about something as serious as that. Did the Taoiseach ask for that? How does he tally his commitment to increase military expenditure and the EU's commitment to increase military expenditure when there is...
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the military and emissions.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While their army just keeps-----
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach totally ignored my question. He cannot answer it.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. You are a puppet for the Americans.
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we were not.