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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That family is not benefiting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Paying their gas bill.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think there should be a question and answer session. I want to raise what I believe is a scandal. That is the planned deal between Coillte and the UK investment fund, Gresham House. It is essentially the State facilitating and financing a corporate grab by a for-profit investment fund of tens of thousands of hectares of land and forestry in this country. I asked the Chief Whip at...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach confirm he is willing to allow a debate on the Coillte issue? I asked at the Business Committee and the members of the Opposition all agreed that they want a Dáil debate next week.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach confirm that he will facilitate that debate?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To subsidise investors.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very much to the credit of many of the tens of thousands of people who are affected by defective apartments and the consequences of cowboy builders who were allowed to run amok in this country that, finally, we have a redress scheme. I welcome that fact, that assurances are being given it will be 100% redress and that it will be retrospective. However, the devil is always in the...
- Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The proposed deal between Coillte, the State forestry company, and Gresham House, a UK-based investment fund, is an absolute disgrace on a par with the previous, utterly shameful plan first signed off by Fianna Fáil and the Greens in 2010, and followed through on by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, to sell off the harvesting rights of Coillte in 2013 to pay off the bankers' debts. I am...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will say one thing on these figures that have been alluded to. We are talking about 3,265 whole time equivalents and that includes extras and that over a two-year period that is 34,000. As we know, extras are not people who are really employees of the industry. They are people who may come in and out so they can be discounted as being part of a permanent creative pool that is supposed to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----how that is tenable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was in the news. It was on RTÉ.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well look-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, Ms Nash.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The difficulty I have with all of that is, first, that they often refer to collective agreements. A collective agreement in an industry has to be between an employer and an employee. However, the people who get the relief have told us they do not employ anybody and the designated activity company, DAC, employs people. How can somebody who has no employees sign up to a collective agreement?...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The ones who come in here representing the guilds are the hirers and firers. That is who is coming in here. Ms Nash knows it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a job.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the points performers, writers and artists made to me in my recent discussions with them, was that in referring to intellectual property in 1988, Deputy Tom Kitt made the point that it is a complicated area, but intellectual property is protected in Bunreacht na hÉireann in the same way that private property is. It is people's property. It belongs to them. There is a problem...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can it be defined as quality employment when the head of department decides each time whether or not a person will be employed and the worker has no right to be re-employed?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Ms Donaghy is saying the Department has no responsibility.