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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what plans he has to resolve the ongoing problems with the 59 bus route and many other Go Ahead routes; his views on whether it is now time to reabsorb these routes back into the Dublin Bus network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will announce in budget 2024 the abolition of the universal social charge for those earning under €100,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2024 (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering additional tax measures in budget 2024 on information and communication companies, including social media and digital streaming companies, to fund public broadcasting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43150/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering any changes to the tax treatment of REITs and other property-related investment vehicles in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43151/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) recently published wealth tax measures that the Government could take that could raise up to €8 billion; if he will announce measures such as this in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a transfer of undertakings protection of employment rights (TUPE) will apply to all Irish Coast Guard staff as regards the transfer from VHC Ireland to Bristow following the new tender being awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43226/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 336, 337 and 338 of 11 September 2023 where it was stated that Bristow Ireland supports the principles of TUPE in relation to the transfer of the Irish Coast Guard staff, to outline in detail what these principles that Bristow supports are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Irish Coast Guard workers can be allowed access to the search and rescue tender document recently awarded to Bristow under FOI or by any other means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the tender documents for the new contract for the Irish Coast Guard recently awarded to Bristow referenced TUPE and to provide the details of this reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43229/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a year's time.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is seeking to dazzle and fool people with once-off measures but the reality is that poverty, deprivation, financial hardship and inequality are not once-off phenomena. They are systemic, and once-off measures will simply not cut it. Despite the attempts to dazzle people with these once-off measures, the net fact, when you look closely at this budget, is that taking into...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will always oppose this measure, which is a fairly significant increase this year, of 75 cent per packet of cigarettes. We do so because, of course, we completely support the view we need to reduce the number of smokers and the number of people who take up smoking and to encourage people to stop smoking. There is absolutely no question as to how bad it is for your...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that it is not okay for Israel to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure and to threaten to starve the people of Gaza. It most certainly is not okay; it is a war crime. The Israeli Government has brazenly, publicly and openly declared its intention to commit a war crime, and has commenced that war crime against the people of Gaza. It has said it intends to starve...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to see an end to all killing, all violence, all death, and the release of all prisoners and hostages.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem here is that I do not believe an apartheid regime has the right to exist anywhere. I do not believe a regime that engages in ongoing daily, weekly and monthly ethnic cleansing of another group of people based on their race or ethnicity-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which is what Israel is doing, has the right to perpetrate those crimes. These are crimes against humanity. This is a regime that for decades has denied UN resolutions calling for the right of return of Palestinians, millions of whom have been ethnically cleansed since 1948, and are living in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, cast to the winds of the world. They are denied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, he will not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am disappointed with the Taoiseach's remarks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Millions of Palestinians have no rights and no votes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I lived there; I know exactly what it is like.