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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can only say that whatever efforts the Minister claims he is making have made absolutely zero difference to the capacity of big financial corporations and other multinationals to use networks of subsidiaries in this way. They can generate profits in one subsidiary and through distributions, royalties or payments of interest on loans from other subsidiaries they magically turn a profit into...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the eligibility criteria for the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, in order that it can be accessed by sole traders and small businesses such as taxi drivers, artists, musicians and live entertainment workers that do not have public facing premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39234/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has excluded sole traders and small businesses like taxi drivers, artists, musicians and live entertainment workers who do not have public-facing premises from accessing the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39231/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will audit the recipients of the wage subsidy scheme to ensure that it is not being abused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39235/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a film production company in receipt of section 481 tax relief claiming in the Labour Court or Workplace Relations Commission that it is not the employer of the film crew working on a film production funded by section 481 relief represents a breach of the declaration that company is required to sign in order to access the relief and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken to ensure that film production companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief are complying with the declaration on quality employment and training they are required to sign in order to access the relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance if the €25,000 limit that credit unions are being required to impose on deposits will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39501/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit has been unique, clear and consistent in arguing that to deal with Covid-19 we need a strategy to eliminate community transmission, so we can avoid a constant cycle of going in and out of one lockdown after another, which is what we believe the Government's strategy is inevitably going to result in. We think the Government is wrong to ignore critical parts of the advice...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt that the intense hardships people have suffered, and the collective solidarity people have shown have helped staved off the worst disasters in respect of Covid-19. However, the Government is taking a gamble in rejecting the NPHET advice, and it is very clear about that, in respect of the potential impact of opening the hospitality sector, which could lead to the family...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Taoiseach explain that 71% of student nurses and midwives said, in a survey, that they are going to probably leave the country after completing their training because they feel that they are so badly treated?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can he possibly justify the fact that the testers and tracers that we need to keep on top of outbreaks have no sick pay and rubbish "hire 'em and fire 'em" contracts when they should be treated with respect with decent pay and conditions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination. [38635/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful to Deputy Kelly, I think one answer to how we deal with the vaccination roll-out is to have our public health teams at a level such that they are capable-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the people who deliver immunisation programmes. As I mentioned to the Taoiseach on Leaders' Questions, they are taking industrial action. At a time when they have never proven their value to society more, they are being forced to take industrial action because the Government has shown them zero respect in terms of their status and giving them status as consultant specialists, but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not intend to speak on this issue but Deputy McDonald referred to anti-social behaviour. It is an issue we all encounter and it can be difficult to address, particularly during the pandemic. We get reports of people complaining of large groups of young people gathering and so forth. There are two ways to deal with that. We can blame the young people and take a coercive approach,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on social affairs and equality is due to meet next. [40167/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the key areas that it is necessary to address if one is to really try and strive towards equality is education. I wish to continue to put to the Taoiseach certain points I was making earlier, but just to focus them a little bit more. Fees are increasingly becoming a major barrier to equality of access to education. That is bad, not just for the people who have financial impediments...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Redundancy Payments (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if State redundancies will be available from 1 December 2020 when the bar on redundancies expires for workers particularly in the bar trade who do not have the prospect of returning to their previous jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39657/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the grants recently announced to enable taxi drivers to replace their vehicles with zero-emission vehicles will be made available; the procedure for applying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39649/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA is extending or will extend the 90-day time limit for getting a suitability test for taxi vehicles after passing a NCT while licence renewals are being extended and during Covid-19 emergency extension measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39918/20]