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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a prime site.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have several cases like that as well. There are problems with the tenant in situ scheme and councils are looking for reasons not to go through it with families who are facing the prospect of homelessness. Something has to be done about it. I want to raise an issue quickly that is also shocking which relates to children with special needs. This story can probably be repeated many times....

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I truly commend Natasha O'Brien and Bláthnaid Raleigh for their incredible bravery in the face of the vicious assaults and traumatisation they have suffered. There are many things that one could say but in the very short time that is available to me, I will focus on the bravery and courage of Natasha and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27043/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel would not be able to continue what the International Court of Justice has rightly recognised as a possible genocide, the worst possible crime anybody is capable of committing, without the favoured trade status, political support and arms it receives from the European Union. It simply would not be able to do it. The European Union is the biggest trading partner of Israel. Germany...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since Israel's genocidal massacre commenced in Gaza, hundreds of millions of people across the world have taken to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians, including in the US, where Jewish people have said Israel's crimes are not committed in their name and that Biden's arming and supporting of Israel does not represent them. Considering the depressing spectacle of Trump versus Biden...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [28199/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of housing is not only responsible for untold hardship, anxiety and suffering for large numbers of people who are at the wrong end of the housing crisis, but it is also probably the greatest economic problem we now face, and increasingly so. We cannot recruit teachers because they cannot afford to live in places like Dublin. We cannot recruit enough health workers because they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance whether in the forthcoming budget he will give a break to ordinary workers by abolishing the USC for those earning less than €100,000 per year, given that it was originally proposed as a temporary emergency tax in the austerity period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a digital tax on the profits of social media companies to fund the replacement of the current TV licence fee and provide the funding necessary to safeguard the future of public service broadcasting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28563/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is acceptable that film producer companies in receipt of section 481 film tax credit are claiming the credit on the grounds that they are providing quality employment and training, while claiming simultaneously and on an on-going basis that the same producer company is not the employer of the film crew on the film productions for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if intends to make any changes to the section 481 film tax credit in the forthcoming budget in light of the recommendations of the Budgetary Oversight Committee report on Section 481, particularly in relation to addressing employment rights, lack of employment security and recognition of service for film crew and the use of buy-out contracts for actors,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance whether in the forthcoming budget he will consider introducing a millionaires' tax on the wealthiest 5% of households, whose average wealth is in excess €4 million each, excluding family homes as progressive replacement for the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28564/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of uncollected tax revenue as a result of individuals offsetting their private health insurance costs against tax liabilities. [28825/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by imposing a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15% on pre-tax gross trading profits before deductions, reliefs and allowances and assuming no behavioural change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28773/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by imposing a financial transaction tax of 0.1% on shares and securities and 0.01% on derivatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28774/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated disallowing historic losses (losses forward) as tax deductions for banks and insurance companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28775/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by introducing a 4% levy on profits of pharmaceutical companies and private health companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28776/24]