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Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 60: In page 29, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: "12. The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on a levy on large profitable companies to meet the costs of the Covid Restriction Support Scheme and other supports to business.".

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 68: In page 45, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “22.Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the extent to which producer companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief are complying with requirements to provide quality employment and training, with employment legislation, taking direct...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we stop the clock?

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This amendment concerns the approximately €80 million in tax relief that is given to film producers every year under section 481. It is a considerable relief to support the development of the film industry. However, as the Minister knows, the specific condition attaching to this relief is that, in order to access the relief, the film producers must provide quality employment and...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's engagement and the commitments he just made. I have given him some new information, which I hope he will follow up. The letter, which he would have got today, elaborates on that. There is Orwellian, Janus-faced double-speak coming from the producers that are getting the relief. In order to get the money, they are telling the Minister that they will do certain...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Again, I genuinely thank the Minister for those commitments and his engagement and interest on the issue. I will make one or two other brief supplementary points for his consideration. There has been much talk about the possibility of a collective agreement as a way of resolving this. I will point out that the producers to whom I refer, and the people who support no change in the situation...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the basis the Minister has said genuinely that he will look into it, I will not press the amendment. I thank the Minister for his engagement.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 69: In page 45, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “22.Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the effective rate of corporation tax being paid across the country and the effect of the closing of tax loopholes would have on revenue.”. I was hoping Deputy Barry would take up the mantle...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Schools Site Acquisitions (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a deadline for identifying, acquisition of and planning permission for a new site and building for a school (details supplied); if there a roadmap or plan for the next steps needed to be taken by her Department; if the local council will participate in sourcing interim or permanent accommodation; the interim accommodation sites...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (3 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding needed for residential care for a person (details supplied) will be provided given that a respite centre they currently attend is planning to open a new residential centre within the next two months and would potentially be able to accommodate this person and provide the professional supports they need; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [41632/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda Síochána is currently engaged in a joint EU-funded research programme called real time network, text and speaker analytics for combating organised crime, ROXANNE. The programme has been in place since September 2019 and runs to August 2022. Among the participants on this programme is the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, which oversees the Israeli prison service,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wealth taxes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they involved in a police project?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he has had with the First and deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland in relation to lifting Covid-19 restrictions. [41633/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the Government voted down the Solidarity-People Before Profit motion calling for the payment of student nurses and midwives, I and student nurses and midwives have listened with fury to the Taoiseach's lame, dishonest and unacceptable excuses in respect of the decision the Government made. There is an interesting all-Ireland dimension to the hypocrisy around treatment of our front-line...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the case.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not saying that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Start with the reality.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government could have amended the motion to pay them in a different way.