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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Immigration will next meet. [11361/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Currently, 13,000 Ukrainians who have come here seeking refuge are working and contributing to making Irish society a better place, which is what most immigrants want to do. There is a very significant obstacle for Ukrainians in particular in that many of them are single parents - women with children - and there is no childcare is available for them. We already have a problem here in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee that deals with higher education and research will next meet. [10251/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I echo what Deputy O'Reilly said. Trans rights are human rights. Trans people have every bit as much a right to be recognised in every level of our education system as anybody else. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the PhD workers and postgraduate workers who are planning a protest in the next week or two outside Leinster House. They point out that the highest stipend for PhD students...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this important motion, which we are happy to support. As many Deputies have said, while it is the case, and not necessarily a bad thing, that we have an ever-growing number of digital and electronic financial transactions – for some, this is convenient and can be a good and useful thing – people need a choice. For many, if it...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but that does not mean that there must be a financial interaction at the point of use. That is commodifying in a way. It is making water a private commodity rather than a socially owned resource that everyone is entitled to use and for which people contribute through the tax system. I am throwing that in as another dimension to this argument. There are different ways of becoming...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Among other matters, the shared island initiative looks at the all-Ireland energy market. North and South, people have been hammered by rising energy costs. It may be of interest to the Taoiseach to note that one of the two major gas suppliers in the North, Firmus Energy, has just reduced its prices for gas by between 18% and, in some cases, 22% because of the reduction in wholesale gas...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak on the same theme. Even business interests are now saying the housing and homelessness crisis is a major barrier to economic development or competitiveness if we want to put it in those terms. The Taoiseach justified what I believe to be the cruel and shameful decision to allow more families, individuals and children to be evicted into homelessness in the coming months on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be familiar with the phrase “One law for the rich and one law for the rest of us”. There is a perception that policing and enforcement is dealt with differently depending on whether you are dealing with workers and working people or dealing with the rich and the powerful. I urge the Taoiseach in this regard to watch “406 Days”, a film that has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A slightly mischievous interpretation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Explain the Debenhams stuff then.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Inequality (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of an organisation’s (details supplied) recent report on wealth inequality in Ireland, which found that the number of Irish persons with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the companies that attended the dinner he hosted in Davos recently; the matters that were discussed with these companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11406/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte/Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; his views on the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11403/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received any report from the Corporate Enforcement Authority on the meeting in January 2023 between the Corporate Enforcement Authority, workers of a company (details supplied) and this Deputy, a meeting that was facilitated by the Secretary General of his Department following a parliamentary question raised by this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware in the course of the liquidation of a company (details supplied); if so, when his Department became aware of the pre-pack administration package put together in April 2019 by several financial entities, involving a floating charge loan of £200 million to the company's UK entity, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware that workers of a company (details supplied) were initially told the company debt was €22 million in May 2020, and in July that debt had risen to more than €300 million, and that the workers were also told that the revenues from the online sales of a website would be used in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware that a company (details supplied) had not renewed its 36 trademarks in the Republic of Ireland in 2020 prior to the liquidation of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gorse Burning (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on that has been burned nationwide; how many tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from the period 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023; if this CO2 is included in agriculture emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/23]