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Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7: In page 15, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Renters Tax Credit 12.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil on whether a regime of rent controls would be a more effective way to support renters than a renters tax credit.”. To move things along, I did not intervene in the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not surprisingly, the Minister is not able to answer the question as to what I say to Jacqueline, Richard and their two children who are facing homelessness because they are being evicted by their landlord on the grounds of sale, which the Government allows. In the middle of a housing emergency, which the Minister does not want to acknowledge, he is allowing evictions. What do I say to...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is correct. It is just not good enough for the people. Believe me, we are engaging with the local authority. Sometimes that helps us get solutions, but more often than not, it does not. So many people are falling through the cracks and that number is growing all the time. It is just not good enough. I am not going to describe motives or anything else, but I do think there is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Committee Stage, I asked the Minister about the projections for corporate pre-tax gross profits. I just found the note in that regard. To be honest, it is unbelievable. Deputy Barry just estimated what it might be, but it is way in excess of that. This is newsworthy. I do not know if the Minister has put this information out there, but Janey Mac. The Minister is estimating that gross...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, I am fully aware the figure is not the taxable profit. Indeed it is precisely the point I make year after year. There are gross profits and then there is a myriad of tax reliefs, deductions and allowances that write down the taxable profit. That is the problem. Workers get a few tax credits but they do not see the level of write-down in what is taxable in their income that...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 17: In page 65, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Wealth Taxes 24.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 establish a Wealth Tax that taxed the top 5 per cent of households 2 per cent of their accumulated wealth less 1 million...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 21: In page 85, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Reports 30.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil on intra-group transfers and whether reliefs on such transfers are being used as a means to shift profits and reduce taxable income.”.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 27: In page 101, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “Reports 40.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on amending the guidelines in relation to section 481 (Film Tax Relief), to clearly define the requirement for producer companies in receipt of the relief to be the legally responsible employer for all...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 481 relief is state aid. Therefore, it has to comply with EU directives in this area. People cannot negotiate away their rights. They cannot do that. They are not allowed to do it. I want the Minister to understand the point I am making. People cannot negotiate away their rights. No group that claims to represent the industry can negotiate away their rights. I will send the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is complicated and it takes a while to get your head around it. The CEO of Screen Producers Ireland, who struck the agreement referred to by the Minister, gave evidence to the WRC in a case taken by a film crew worker that there was no possible basis, having due regard to the realities of the sector, on which a relationship of employment could be said to have existed between the parties...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying it is the structure of the relief. I am asking the Minister to go to Europe and ask for an adjudication on this. That is a reasonable thing to ask, is it not? How is that not a reasonable thing to ask, seriously, if there is question mark? Have we not been down this road before with compliance or non-compliance with EU directives, where people had to go all the way to flipping...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans his Department has to address the crisis in recruitment across multiple areas of the public sector; if these plans include changes to pay scales or other allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter regarding a complaint made to the Ombudsman Office concerning a breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007 by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56252/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an EU student resident in Ireland for the past three years is eligible for the free fees Initiative if their parents are resident in Romania; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention was drawn to the disrespect shown to the Irish flag by the Israeli occupation forces, acting on behalf of the Israeli government, during its raid on the Ramallah offices of a human rights organisation (details supplied); if so, if he conveyed his objections to the Israeli government through diplomatic channels; if his...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date report on both the temporary and permanent plans for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57934/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Gaelscoil Laighean in my area was recently denied planning permission for temporary buildings on the Mount Anville site, which Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county councillors agreed to dispose of earlier this year in order to provide a site for both temporary and permanent buildings for the school. Parents have expressed absolute disbelief and fury that this is now the third planning...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions the planning application failed to meet were around things like lack of public lighting, lack of proper pest control, failure to put in correct waste management systems and other green conditions in those conditions mentioned by the Minister. What the parents of Gaelscoil Laighean find really hard to believe is that where there are particular conditions around building a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It still seems quite extraordinary that some of those conditions could not be met and that we have delays around the failure to meet some of them, some of which I just outlined. One would have thought people would know how to meet these sorts of basic conditions, or "green conditions" as they were described to me. We must also remember that this is a long saga. The school was originally...