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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a given that that is what Mr. Byrne, Ms Irwin and others in their situation should get. They should get fairness, they should not have been treated like this and they should not be being gouged the way they are. Why is the Government not doing what is necessary? What are the impediments? When we say get the vulture funds out and cap interest rates, it just says it cannot do that. To...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Clearly, I agree with Mr. Hall and I do not think anybody listening to the account could not agree that something needs to be done. Why will they not do it? Perhaps Mr. Hall does not want to answer because he just wants to try to convince people to do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the interference with the market-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am with Mr. Hall 100%. We will see. Mr. Hall has put his finger on it. It is the nonsense that we cannot interfere with the market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will keep pushing. I thank the witnesses for their testimony and Mr. Hall for his work. I hope we can put enough pressure on the Government to do something because, clearly, it is an intolerable situation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for the report and for their contributions. They are my favourite group of economists. On the issue of constraints, much of this comes from labour shortages. It is fair to say that many of these interact substantially with the housing crisis. This is because many young people are leaving. It would be interesting to see the latest emigration figures. I do not know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Is this about maybe spending in strategically important areas and not wasting money in areas that are not as strategically important? This was alluded to. I was going to allude to a quote from IFAC in this regard as well, but I think it comes from our own summary of the report. This does, though, seem to be kind of what IFAC is saying.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am aware there is net immigration, but I am still conscious there is also emigration.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be better if those people were not leaving, given the labour and skills shortages we have now.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course. I am referring to incentivising people to stay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The other way it is possible to help in this regard is through dealing with things like underemployment. This may be, and I suspect is significantly, connected to a lack of childcare or affordable childcare. If we were to lessen this impact, then we could potentially free up significant amounts of skill and labour to help deal with these capacity constraints. Do the witnesses think a good...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be discussing this at length. I would even ask this of the Norwegians. Why should a country save it rather than use it to diversify its economy and diversify its industrial base? One of the things we learned from the last crash was that even though we had a buffer fund, the National Pensions Reserve Fund, it was gone overnight once the downturn came. It did not really act as much...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to apologise in advance because I need to go to questions in the Dáil Chamber shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce new obligations on the recipients of section 481 film tax relief to end the use of buy-out contracts for performers, writers and artists which deny them their IP rights under copyright law, and a further obligation on producer company recipients of the credit to take direct responsibility as the employer for film crew on film...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a windfall tax on banks and vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30200/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that on 14 June 2023, the CEO of a charity (details supplied) outlined to the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight, wealth tax measures the Government could take that could raise up to €8 billion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30199/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a cap on mortgage interest rates to prevent families being impoverished and forced into arrears by rising interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30198/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The revelations about secret payments to Ryan Tubridy in RTÉ have been a kick in the teeth to public confidence in the State broadcaster and a kick in the teeth to the ordinary journalists and workers in RTÉ who have done nothing wrong and who, while this payments were being made, had to endure pay cuts, pay freezes, bogus self-employment, zero-hour contracts and many other...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why we need to hear from the Minister.