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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [29544/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might not have been aware of this, but the Writers Guild of Ireland have been protesting in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike, essentially over streaming companies and film producers robbing them of their residuals or royalties for the work they do on films, which massively cuts into the income of writers and artists. This echoes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Debenhams, here we go again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In this case.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to protect the workers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And the fixed-term workers. Could the Taoiseach try to get me the contacts?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the meeting of the European Political Community on 1 June 2023. [29545/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have highlighted over recent days and weeks our fear that the Government's consultative forum is stacked with pro-NATO voices, NATO employees, generals, brigadiers, people involved with the military-industrial complex and those generally in favour of militarisation. The Taoiseach said – yesterday, I believe – that he would consider the possibility of rebalancing the forum....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how a person (details supplied) can receive a permit for employment without immigration status, which is required for their worker's permit, but they cannot gain immigration status (stamp 1) without a worker's permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the defective apartments and duplexes redress scheme will be enacted; if retrospective applications for redress will be included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29324/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how a person (details supplied) may gain immigration status given that their stamp 1G visa has expired and they wish to continue working in Ireland with no need to pursue further education, but they have been refused a working permit on the grounds of immigration status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if money granted by Caranua to a survivor of an institution that was to be used only for household goods, but not yet used may still be claimed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 563. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 16 May 2023, the reason for the removal of the service; if there is an intention to replace the service; if not, where else the service might be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has plans to fund the drug, dupilumab which is used to treat a form of asthma, under the reimbursement scheme; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a taxation query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29979/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the recent opinion poll showing overwhelming public support for abolition of the universal social charge; if he will give a commitment to announce the abolition of the charge in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30486/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: An opinion poll over the past week or so showed that a majority of people wanted the hated universal social charge, USC, to be abolished, something that was promised by Fine Gael in 2016. When it was imposed during the economic crisis, it was supposed to be a temporary emergency austerity tax. It was cruelly and unfairly imposed on working people, costing them thousands of euro every year....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is rewriting history in terms of the rationale for the USC. It was not put forward on the basis of broadening tax bases or anything like that. It was put forward as an emergency tax in response to a crisis created by banks and developers and it was imposed on top of the income tax that workers paid. If you earn €45,000 per year, you pay €2,300 on top of your...