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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a fairly terrifying development, yesterday the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was instigated by Albert Einstein and other atomic scientists in 1945, moved the doomsday clock to 90 seconds to midnight from previously being 100 seconds to midnight. The atomic scientists describe this as a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation. Previously, the nearest the clock...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And if not, we will blow ourselves to hell.

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the features of our shared island is the demoralisation of nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers both North and South. Tomorrow, there will be further strike action by nurses in the North over a pay cut, in real terms, that they are suffering, where there is extreme demoralisation among nurses and a severe crisis in being able to recruit and retain them because of massive...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte-Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; if he will outline the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) on wealth inequality in Ireland that found the number of Irish people with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people, and that the two richest people in Ireland have more wealth than the poorest 50% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by an organisation (details supplied) for a wealth tax of graduated rates of 2%, 3% and 5% on wealth above €4.7m, in which the organisation stated that such a wealth tax would raise €8.2 billion annually, with the potential to transform Irish public services in health, housing and education;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that leading global tax researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen (details supplied) have identified Ireland as a major tax haven and estimate that Ireland artificially attracts €130 billion in profits from other countries and gains €7.2 billion in tax...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on how a tenant who is on an electricity sub meter with pre-pay power, where the landlord has a commercial account, can access the electricity grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2989/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of applications for exceptional needs payments due to financial hardship, by social welfare areas, month by month for 2021 and 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2722/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 608. To ask the Minister for Health the way persons who need continuous supplies of insulin are expected to maintain their health while the supply is difficult to access other than by very minimal amounts dispensed on an emergency basis from overwhelmed hospitals, given that there is a shortage of insulin supplies in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3223/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the recent hearings at the budget scrutiny committee about section 481 film credit and the concerns raised by Equity about the failure of producer companies to vindicate the rights of actors, performers, directors and writers in respect of intellectual property and EU directives; the concerns raised by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister may be aware that the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which I am a member of, has been examining section 481 relief, which goes to film producer companies to make films. In return, those companies are supposed to give quality employment and training and comply with all relevant legislation. The Minister may have heard Equity saying that people are being forced to waive their...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, we all share in the celebration of the success of "The Banshees of Inisherin" and "An Cailín Ciúin", but that success, which results from performances, writing and directing as well as the crews who stood behind the cameras, underlines the need to guarantee, vindicate and champion the rights of performers, writers, directors and the crew who make those films and not to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke with Equity this morning. Time and again, it has made it clear that its members are being forced to waive their rights to intellectual property and to sign contracts saying they are getting equitable remuneration when they are not. When I asked the president of Equity directly what would happen if someone did not sign the contract, the answer was that the performer would not get the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to issues raised by film crew at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight hearings on section 481 tax relief in terms of their vulnerability to blacklisting and failure to vindicate their rights as employees under EU and national law; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I return to the subject of my earlier questions on the film industry. I will firstly address copyright and intellectual property rights. The legislation sets out that "The right to equitable remuneration conferred by this section shall not be waived by the performer and the performer shall not assign the right to equitable remuneration except to a collecting society". However, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. I will bring up the blacklisting in a second.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, although the point is, as I mentioned earlier, that if people refuse to sign those buy-out contracts and do not get a job, they are in effect blacklisted. On the specific question, in order to avail of section 481, film producer companies have to sign a declaration that they are abiding by legislation such as the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act, and they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just pass the parcel. I have to hand an email from someone who was not even in front of our committee. Their name could not be given. It just said that they would love to chat about the film and TV industry again and that blacklisting, bullying and poor practices are alive and well and happening now in some of the 13 productions that were under way in the country at the time. The...