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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to delays in newborns being registered and subsequently receiving their PPS number which is causing problems or delays in newborns receiving general practitioner care, vaccinations and other health checks essential for babies to receive proper and timely treatment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current methods of registration of births; if there have been changes to the methods for registration under Covid-19 restrictions; if there are delays in registration of births currently; if so, the average length of the delay; if this is causing delays in newborns being given a PPS number; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commission on Pensions (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if organisations (details supplied) will be allowed to be represented on the Pensions Commission for which she is responsible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37289/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made the point yesterday that the research and development tax credit involves such a substantial amount of public expenditure that an analysis of the benefit to society is required. Perhaps the Minister can give us the latest figures on what is projected for this year in terms of this tax credit but my understanding is that it is approximately €700 million and that has been rising...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will briefly give another example of public bodies on which this money would be better spent. In the recent budget I was quite flabbergasted by the Estimate for health expenditure. As we know, the Estimate was significantly increased in the context of Covid-19 and rightly so but in the area of health research in the HSE, there was no increase this year at all. I was absolutely amazed by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 171: In page 66, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “PART 6 REPORTS Report on Knowledge Development Box and other research and development tax reliefs 55.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on the Knowledge Development Box and other research and development tax reliefs and provide a cost-benefit...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister tell us the latest available figure for intra-group transactions? I have raised the issue of intra-group transactions as a very significant example of these huge giveaways to multinationals using labyrinthine structures of subsidiaries to avoid tax. Up until recently, the Revenue tables showing the tax reliefs and allowances that are available contained a heading labelled...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful if the Minister could come back with the figures. This is an enormous and growing category of allowances - or loopholes, in my language - which big multinationals with multiple subsidiaries are exploiting in order to avoid tax. I understand that he does not have the information now, but I would also appreciate if the Minister could confirm whether there has been a change...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide grants and supports to the self-employed and sole traders who work in the arts, entertainment, music and event industry who continue to have work-related overheads despite having little or no work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35170/20]

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At one level the task force report on recovery in arts and culture is welcome. I refer to the proposals for a basic income pilot scheme for those working in the arts, local authority funding to be continued, a support for well-being programmes, upskilling and training, loans for small and medium-sized businesses in the events sector and other proposals such as, importantly, payment for...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is one of the proposals in the task force.

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the income supports and other supports for people working in the arts and creative sector.

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The CRSS will benefit some in live entertainment and music and that is to be welcomed. The report itself, however, obviously influenced by the campaigning of groups like the Events Industry Alliance and the Event Production Industry Covid-19 Working Group, EPIC, points out that huge numbers of SMEs in the music and live entertainment sector will not qualify for the CRSS because they do not...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I requested the first debate on the impact of Covid on the arts in the House earlier this year. The central point of what I said at the time was that life, without arts, music and culture, would not be worth living. I am glad to find that sentiment has found its way into the title of the Minister's report. However, while we have all these positive proposals, what has actually happened?...

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Covid-19 has forced us to rethink many of our priorities and understand what is important. Many of those things that we have learned the importance of during Covid-19, and which we should have known before, start with higher education. There are the doctors, the nurses and the scientists we need to cope with a health crisis, the engineers, the architects and the apprentices we need to build...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the results of the pilot project announced in the July stimulus will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37387/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the pilot project announced in the July stimulus to support the arts, live music and entertainment industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37386/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions taken regarding clothing and textiles deposited in clothing banks and unused clothing and textiles from the charity industry; the regulations and checks in place to ensure environmentally safe disposal of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise domestic employers who mistakenly believed they could apply for the temporary wage subsidy scheme for their employee and were not informed by the Revenue Commissioners when they made email inquiries nor when they applied that the scheme did not cover domestic employees and now are being asked to repay the moneys; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Undefined (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any prior discussion took place between the Government here and the UK Government before the introduction of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill in the UK Parliament in view of the extraterritorial applicability and implications for the criminal justice cooperation between Ireland and the UK; if...