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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I will be brief. The Minister should listen and engage in debate rather than trying to twist arguments the way that he just had. Saying such things as "the country fared far better than the Deputy would have hoped" is schoolboy stuff. Let us have a proper debate about this. As for incomes being protected, the Minister is well aware that the original proposal from the Government about...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister is privatising family relations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: My question also relates to the landlord tax relief. I will be brief as the meeting is running late. The point was made, correctly, during the debates on the budget that there was the maintenance of tax relief for landlords, but no tax measures to assist renters. That says a great deal. On this particular tax relief for landlords, my understanding is that a landlord can claim tax relief...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 28: In page 24, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “Reports 22.The Minister shall within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the revenue raised by excluding developments from section 21 where the development is a facility consisting of one or more than one structure, the combined...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Energy price hikes are a huge issue. It will cost a household €800 on average. There have already been 30 hikes since 1 January. People are already hard pressed with the cost of childminding, crèche facilities and rent and now they are faced with this. It is an issue of life or death. There is the concept of excess winter deaths. I have been trying to get my head around it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 94: In page 121, to delete lines 16 to 22.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Education will next meet. [58665/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: In September, the German federal Government spent €200 million on air purifiers for schools and childcare centres. Here, HEPA air purifiers could be provided for every Irish classroom at a cost of approximately €12 million. However, the Government has decided not to take this step. I find this incredible, given that Covid is an airborne disease and our school buildings house...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress report on the programme for Government. [58666/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Renters need protection. They need the Government to lock up the house and keep the rent increases out, but it appears that the Government has left the front door on the latch and the back door swinging wide open. The following is a quote from the Irish Independentwebsite this morning regarding the proposed rent cap legislation: "Landlords will be able to hike rents by multiples of new rent...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Deputy Carthy has told the House that the greyhound industry is a success story that should be celebrated. I do not agree with that. Deputy Kelly of the Labour Party says that he has a small interest in a racing greyhound. Both Deputies have voiced their support for animal welfare but ignore the fact that animal cruelty is at the heart of the greyhound industry in this country. If the...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: It was 6,000 dogs.

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I am not sure about the level of interest in this motion in the editorial rooms of the corporate media. I do know that in many hard-pressed working-class communities across the State this will be seen as an important issue being debated. For example, in my constituency, Cork North-Central, thousands of people's lives have been improved by the quiet and painstaking work of local employment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I will do my best Lieutenant Columbo impression. I am not sure I understand this, but I think I do. A €150 million bank levy was paid by five banks last year that between them controlled 100%, or at least the vast lion's share, of the Irish banking industry. This year, €87 million will be paid by three banks that between them control 100%, or the vast lion's share, of the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Can I ask a question?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: This one is a real head-scratcher. Mention has been made of the disruption to the banking sector in the State next year. However, the beneficiaries of that disruption will be the three remaining banks. They will gobble up the customer base of the two that are heading out the door. The Minister claims he is not increasing the levy on banks because they will suffer disruption, but they will...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: When they were here, I wanted to nationalise them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: They should change their ownership.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Let us vote on it now.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes to comment.