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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman and I apologise in advance because I must leave to put a question to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, about some of these matters we are talking about here. I may have to run as soon as I see my number coming up. I listened to some of the presentation by Professor Doherty earlier on the monitor. My apologies I was not in the committee for it. I have been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Were those figures broken down by sector as they went into-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be very grateful for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a slight problem with the issue of who the employer is and the obligations that employer has to the employee, and sectoral concerns. I am not saying it should not be a part of the mix, but I believe that it is in the interests of the public, especially where public money is used, that the public gets the maximum amount back for its investment, whether via film tax relief or public...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would have assumed that if someone goes to a place of work, whether a film set or a construction site, and finds out that 60% of the people in that place of work are entrepreneurs, he or she would think that something was wrong. While it might be credible to have 10% or 20% of people in a particular workplace acting as entrepreneurs, it is not credible that 60% or 70% of them, as the case...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised the matter with Deputy Gino Kenny in recent weeks. As other Deputies have noted, the Government urgently needs to review and abandon the proposal. It is worth bearing in mind that the revenue which is expected to be generated from the proposal is a miserable €8 million. Given the impact and hardship it will cause the many people who need food supplements, vitamins and so on...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barrett is quite right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [7978/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Taoiseach about another aspect of British politics which we heard echoed today on "Morning Ireland", when a contributor echoed a position of Theresa May's about which we should have something to say. We had a journalist making a casual connection between support for Palestinians, criticism of the Israeli state and anti-Semitism, essentially suggesting they were all the same...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are critical of all those regimes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those regimes are not supported by my party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to Northern Ireland and the meetings he attended. [6710/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One unfortunate mantra the Taoiseach has continued to trot out, which we have just heard from Deputy Micheál Martin, is the notion that the renewable heat incentive scandal was some sort of little Mickey Mouse issue that should not have been of concern.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy implied it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy did imply it. That was my take on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the same attitude the Government seems to have. It is treated as if it was a small issue that the parties should get over, as if there was nothing important about it. Eamon McCann was the first Assembly member to call for an election over this issue because we were talking about hundreds of millions of pounds. It is an absolutely shocking scandal. It took place in the context of a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that somehow we sacrifice the need to deal with scandals like this. Frankly, it is the Northern equivalent of the national children's hospital in its scale.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If Deputy Micheál Martin wants to make an argument about the institutions he should make it, but------