Results 23,001-23,020 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course it does. What else is it going to say? "We blacklist people every day"?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not private. It is public money.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has not built a single house-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----four years later.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2022; the other measures he will put in place to stop the flow of people into homelessness; if those measures will include an increase in the number of Part V property bought, allowing councils and approved housing bodies, AHBs, to buy homes where people...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a priority question and the senior Minister is not here, which I find unacceptable. On Friday week I will accompany to the court Jackie and her husband - he has worked all his life for a State company and they have two kids - for a case involving an enforcement order, following which they will most likely be evicted from their home having done nothing wrong. Because they are...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the problem when the senior Minister is not here: we just get script. No disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, but that is the problem. None of what he said stops the cliff edge Jackie, her husband and their two kids face in being evicted next Friday from the home in which they have lived all their lives, and this during what is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know the Minister of State is not, but the Minister is. Jackie and her husband, who, I repeat, works for a State company, with their two kids have written to the Minister, to the Taoiseach and to everybody. They have written to Frank Curran, the head of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. They are over the income threshold, so none of the things the Minister of State said will...
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a member of the Business Committee, I requested this special debate on Coillte some weeks ago. Like many who were on the protest today and many of the thousands who have signed the "Save our Forest - Save our Lands" petition, I was absolutely horrified by the proposed deal between Coillte, a public forest company that is owned by the people, and a vulture fund. And Gresham House is, in...
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will explain why it is a vulture fund. I will set the context for this. Our forests were destroyed by colonial and imperial plunder. It was brought down to about 1% in a country that used to have 80% forest of native woodland. One of the objectives and missions of the revolutionaries who fought for the independence of this State, right back to Parnell and the revolutionaries who fought...
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy McNamara will read it from now on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair might let somebody else go first.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As Mr. Coffey is aware, one of my favourite subjects is the effective corporate tax rate. It was also addressed by Deputy Doherty. If I heard Mr. Coffey correctly, he stated that the level of deductions and allowances is relatively minimal.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Reliefs and credits. In the document, however, they look pretty huge. The document provides the most recent figures, for 2020, with €193 billion in gross trading profits. After allowances and losses forward, the taxable figure goes down to €114 billion. The amount to be taxed drops by 70% or 80%. Mr. Coffey is probably better at maths than I am. It drops by an enormous...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is further down the table.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. The amount accounted for by capital allowances and trading losses forward is huge but Mr. Coffey is saying there is even more further down the table. Where is that-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Charges and deductions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before. The Revenue table is another of my favourite documents. It refers to intragroup transactions, which have jumped astoundingly in the last few years. The latest figure I saw for 2021 was something incredible like €35 billion, and it is describing that as revenue foregone in its list of deductions, reliefs and allowances. That had jumped from €19 billion and before that...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is referred to in the Revenue table as intragroup transactions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a bit of that here as well, of course, in certain areas.