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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance if changes in the VAT directive that was agreed in April 2022, which allowed for a reduced rate to apply to the supply of sport or physical exercise classes, have been implemented; and if so, the current VAT rate for the supply of sport or physical exercise classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 538. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the reimbursement of pyridoxine/doxylamine, whose brand name is Cariban in Ireland, for women with hyperemesis gravidarum to require a prescription from a consultant obstetrician, rather than a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Minister for Health when the long-promised community neurorehabilitation team for CHO 6 will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61858/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his meeting with President of France. [61289/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the new report published by his Department on The Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [61290/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with Planning and Marine Development will next meet. [61291/22]

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Up to 100,000 families and individuals are living in dangerously defective homes that are fire hazards, have water ingress, chronic damp, structural defects and cracks everywhere, all because of the disgusting greed of property developers who were facilitated every step of the way by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the feeding frenzy that was the Celtic tiger. These people have been left...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There have been 886 to date this year.

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Buy some as well.

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish everybody in the House a good Christmas, particularly the service officers, ushers, all the staff in the Oireachtas, the Bills Office, the people who work in the canteens and restaurants, the cleaners and everybody else who helps us operate this place. I thank you all and hope you have a good Christmas. A young mother with a teenaged son is watching this debate. She is four years in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can provide any estimates of the added C02 emissions from current and planned data centres with similar or planned gas-fired generators, in relation to the impact on the State's emissions targets from data centres using gas-fired generators as back-up generators; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not wish to be ungracious, but this is not a time for standing ovations or self-congratulation. We are living in one of the richest countries in the world and yet, one in five of our population is living at risk of poverty. As we head into Christmas, there are 3,400 children who are going to go through Christmas in emergency accommodation. There are a total of 11,000 people who are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Sorry for the delays caused by the voting in the House. I will start with the final point that Mr. Lowe made, namely, that he would like us to consider increasing the cap relating to the level of investment that the State is willing to put into films. I would be happy to agitate for increased investment. In general, I am in favour of us spending more...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then there are the actors and performers. Their creative work is one of factors that is valuable in films from a commercial and financial point of view. It is fair to say that the way films potentially make any money is through the royalties or flow from the distribution and the performance of those films or television series, or their repeated downloading on Netflix or whatever. It is not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for the length of it, by the way.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I just-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On that point, in cases heard before the Labour Court, Element Pictures has said that no employment relationship with it can exist because the relationship is with the DAC. Screen Producers Ireland has made the same point. I have seen transcripts in which the companies have said that. They have said that the relationship was with the DAC. I will point out that all of the employment...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From an employment rights' point of view, there is no difference.