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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is part of the question. Our committee has looked at a lot of tax expenditures. We have generally suggested that they should be scrutinised as much as the budget day measures, ongoing expenditure measures, etc. What will the Minister do in terms of the presentation of information on tax expenditures for the budget material and budget day?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I do not mean that. I mean tax expenditures, such as tax credits and reliefs.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what affordable housing will be or has been provided in Cherrywood in return for the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund providing funding; the price of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the details of the prices being set for affordable purchase and cost rental in Shanganagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for applicants for civil legal aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29628/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 753. To ask the Minister for Health if respiratory syncytial virus immunisation pathfinder programme does not include children born between 1 July and September 2024; if not, the rational for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is intending any further legislative changes or measures to address the problem of employment insecurity and lack of service recognition for workers in the gig economy or in sectors characterised by project-to-project work, such as the film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30468/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors. I am sorry I missed the opening statements but I was over in the Dáil. I had read through most of their submissions and I thank them. I want to ask about the State construction company that NERI asked about because I am very much in favour of that. Does anybody have an opinion on that? NERI mentioned in its document that one way to use some of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mostly want to ask about the future, the budget and all the rest but, given the debate we had in the Dáil today and the Apple tax issue, I just want to ask a question. My question is for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in particular, because he was around then. Does he and the Government regret the fact it did not take on the views of some of us in the Opposition back in 2013 when we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and should have allowed those representatives to be questioned about the company's tax affairs?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just any old taxpayer.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will certainly agree to disagree on that one.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think most ordinary people in this country would say that if they were accused of taking money from the people that the people should have had, they would be chased down by the State for doing that. In some cases they might even end up in prison for doing it, such as for TV licences and so on. I think most people would find that pretty difficult to stomach. At the time, some of us said...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has answered it. I am amazed that the Government does not regret what has happened. If we had had that money, it might have made a difference. We could now possibly do with that money but it seems to me that it would have made a dramatic difference to the current housing crisis that we are facing had we had access to that money then and had the Government pursued it instead of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me put it to you-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I know. Nonetheless, that is a very worrying admission on the Minister’s part. Nobody is disputing that we need 50,000, 60,000 or maybe 70,000 houses a year but what the Minister seems to be saying is that it might be overheating the economy to try to deliver that. The Central Bank is talking about a timeline. Does the Minister accept that we are, therefore, facing a deficit...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are other ways around the overheating issue.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds like we are facing into at least a decade, if not more, of a housing crisis. If we do not meet those targets, it is going to accumulate, just like the deficit we already have.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a question on another area. There was an announcement in July of this year that the recruitment embargo had been lifted in the health service. I did not know at the time but have been informed by workers in my local hospital, St. Michael’s, and subsequently by the National Rehabilitation Hospital people when I went to the opening of the new wing there, and it has been...