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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 72: In page 153, after line 39, to insert the following: “653AQ.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the amount of revenue that would be raised by introducing an empty home (excluding vacant homes that are vacant with a good reason) levy of €1,000 per month.”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 77: In page 171, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Reports 85.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the amount of revenue that would be raised by introducing a new tax on land banks of underdeveloped land at €10,000 per hectare.”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 78: In page 171, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Reports 85. Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the amount of revenue that would be raised if he were to abolish the current Local Property Tax and impose a new Non Principal Private Residence Tax on an incremental basis as...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our concern about all of this is that very profitable companies and data centres should not benefit. That is basically it. We are worried about data centres being able to get it because we have a fundamental problem with data centres and the drain they represent on the energy of this country, which is rising exponentially. We would put a fair bit of the responsibility for the energy...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a different perspective. My optimum solution, and I say this in all sincerity, is that we would improve this situation even more by nationalising energy and running it on a not-for-profit basis. That would help even more. This is the scheme that the Minister is proposing and I take his point about turnover. However, if it was to be based on profitability, it would be entirely...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was a wealth tax introduced recently in Chile or elsewhere in South America?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but when we are trying to work out what is fair and so on when choosing between taxes, does it not seem more reasonable to direct taxes on wealth or property more towards those who have excess wealth or excess property, rather than those who only have a family home?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many thousands of people will come out on the streets for the Raise the Roof demonstration because of the failure of the Government to address the absolutely diabolical housing and homelessness crisis. I have brought to the Gallery some of the people for whom this is a life and death matter. Deputy Bacik may not have been aware that some of the residents of Tathony House she referred to are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to look those people in the eyes. There has to be a solution. They have done nothing wrong. They paid their rent, they worked and they paid their taxes. The Taoiseach cannot say that there may not be an answer because of this legislative shortcoming or that legislative loophole. If people's incomes, for example, are under €53,000, even according to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am asking the Taoiseach to do. Please do it for these people who do not deserve to be put through what they are being put through at the moment.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [54848/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe last met. [54849/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the new British Prime Minister. [57448/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought there were 20-minute slots.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chairman can give me half an hour, if she wants.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The simple fact about the situation for the vast majority of people on middle and low incomes, working people, or people dependent on pensions or social welfare is that they will be worse off next year than they were this year. This is the fundamental fact. As much as the Government may try and bedazzle people with a long list of measures it has taken to try to mitigate the absolutely...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If she is entitled to illness benefit, she should be entitled to the fuel allowance, which she should have been getting for the past nine years, as well as the cost-of-living payment. The Minister should do something about this. Beyond that, I see no justification for why people on illness benefit, jobseeker's benefit, maternity benefit, death benefit, injury benefit, or carer's benefit...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Reports 2. Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the cost to the exchequer of abolishing the USC and replacing it with a High Income Social Charge of 10 per cent on all earnings over €90,000.”. This amendment asks the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will tell Deputy Durkan what I do not understand. All of the people in various categories who earn in excess of €100,000, such as Ministers, executives of companies, upper management in companies, bankers, consultant doctors and barristers - I am sure we could think of others - do valuable work. However, is their work more valuable than a nurse's work? Should their work be...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good point, and they should possibly pay an extra levy just for that. That is certainly the logic of our proposals to redress the balance in terms of net earnings ultimately, which is what we are trying to do through a myriad of means. I would say in response to the Minister's direct response to our proposal that in order to cover the cost of abolishing the USC, which he promised he...