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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Taoiseach who is putting the target on their backs.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has done it. I did not make the statement; he did.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about staffing in the health service. In July, the Government announced a lifting of the recruitment embargo in the HSE. However, over the past few weeks I have started to receive desperate calls from staff in multiple departments in my local hospital about a recruitment embargo being imposed in St. Michael's Hospital that is endangering patient safety and means workers...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if they are understaffed and unsafe.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Quality, not quantity.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which I am happy to support. I will not get into the discussion about whether it goes too far or far enough other than to say I bow to the knowledge of people in the region, whether they are campaigners or political representatives, who I am sure know a hell of a lot more than me about the details of what is happening to the health...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good. Fair play to you, Minister. I support the motion. The case of Aoife Johnston, her tragic and unavoidable death, should be a wake-up call for everybody. Something like that should not have happened. It is absolutely tragic and no doubt linked to massive overcrowding and the fact that she was left on a trolley for 13 hours without the medication she needed to save her life. Her...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full-year cost of providing a €100 electricity credit to each principal private residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33747/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the National Broadband Plan rollout of fibre broadband will be completed in the Foxrock area of Dublin; the reason it has been delayed; when this will be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to introduce free public transport for all students. [33270/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that taxi drivers with 2015 registrations or older who lost two years work and income during the Covid pandemic, income that would be needed to assist in financing the purchase of a new vehicle when they reach the ten year time limit, are not being given the same two year extension that was given to 2013, 2014 and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303.To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of index linking tax credits. [33265/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 372.To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in the vacant homes tax to 25% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32511/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 440.To ask the Minister for Finance the 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. [33727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 441.To ask the Minister for Finance the 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. [33728/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 442.To ask the Minister for Finance the 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. [33729/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 443.To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by abolishing the special assignee relief programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33730/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 444.To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by establishing four new income tax bands of 50% on earnings between €100,000 and €150,000, 55% on earnings between €150,000 and €200,000, 60% on earnings between €200,000 and €275,000, and 65% on earnings over €275,000; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 445.To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of abolishing the local property tax and introducing a tax on non-principal private residences (NPPR) as follows: single NPPR - €1,000; ten or less NPPRs - €1,500 per property; 11 or more NPPRs - €2,500 per property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33732/24]