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Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is People Before Profit next.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is no problem. We oppose any involvement in the European Defence Agency or the project of European militarisation, which is accelerating at a shocking rate. We will support the Sinn Féin amendment to refer the motion to the committee but, in our view, there is no justification for getting involved with the European Defence Agency. We have opposed it, root and branch, and continue...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight entitled "Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 9th May, 2023. Deputy Cowen sends his apologies but he was unavoidably detained. He also made the point that he has just recently been installed as Chair of the committee...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hopefully, there are a few of us.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to thank all of the committee members who participated in the production of this report and all of the contributors who work or are involved in the film industry. I would also like to thank the former Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, Deputy Hourigan, who was the Chair during the production of this report, who inputted significantly to the report and who was open to...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. Misled.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just relaying what they told me.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention his name.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of the negotiation, what was told to the committee was not true. Is that better?

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply relaying what I have been told. The point is this needs to be investigated. That is all I am saying. It is an allegation but it needs to be investigated. The committee has gone as far as to write to the European Union to ask it to investigate the matter. The EU directive is clear on these issues, that under fixed-term workers legislation, there should not be the use of...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To pre-empt everything I am going to say, I am personally and politically committed to public funding for the film industry and for arts and culture in general. I am one of the most vocal, although not the only one because there are many others, in arguing every year that we should put more investment into film, arts and culture. I will do it again this year. I am in favour of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress of the tenant-in-situ and the cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including a timeline on bringing in legislation to ensure that the tenant or local authority have first refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33205/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the local authority housing stock retrofitting programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make changes to the HAP scheme so that there is not a cliff edge if people go over the social housing income limits to ensure that there is tapered rental support for those above the limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the full details of the affordability measures put in place in Cherrywood developments in return for the LIHAF funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33207/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what changes he intends to make to the cost-rental rules so that those eligible on income grounds are not ineligible on affordability grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33209/23]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the committee for allowing me to come in on the discussion. I thank the ARC and all our contributors. I have some questions that may be a bit more detailed, but I have a couple of initial general questions and observations. First, the victims of this mess, and it is a mess, are the TV licence-paying public, who can go to jail if they do not pay their TV licence, and the vast...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am firmly of the view, and the witnesses are alluding to it, that where commercial and advertising are concerned, there is a tension between them and the public service mandate. I will go further than the witnesses may be willing to - if they want to comment on it, please do - and say that it is a malign influence that seriously threatens to undermine the integrity of public service...