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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I can, I will just ask a follow-on question from that. The ruling is pretty strong. To be honest, I would say it would be pretty difficult to wriggle out of it. By the way, it does resonate with the points that our committee came up with in its report. Is there an acknowledgement that therefore there is a systemic issue that needs to be investigated? They had to go a long way and, as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I would just signal that it is very clear, because we heard about it at the hearings here. I asked SPI how many people in the industry have got contracts of indefinite duration under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act. I knew the answer, and it confirmed that none had. We heard simultaneous claims that it was giving quality employment and training to thousands of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have ploughed that furrow a good bit. I thank the witnesses for the answer but I am still a bit unhappy with how we are dealing with it. This is going to be looked at in the forum. There may be an opportunity to get some brief answers on the forum. Who can attend it? Is it open? Is there a possibility of this committee being represented? Could the witnesses also say a bit about the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not know.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There seemed to be confusion about that but maybe that was at my end, so apologies. Thank you.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is all right. Fire away. I have one follow-up question when Mary is finished.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know there is a blurry line between Departments and what they say because they are administering things and engaging in politics. I am not trying to be critical from a political point of view but I want to understand. A view has been expressed here and by the committee that there may be a systemic problem with buy-out contracts and the use of successive fixed-term contracts. Does the WRC...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all to play for, as it were.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As Ms Coogan said, however, if a Minister said that in order to get section 481 there have to be certain minimum requirements in contracts-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understood from our guests that the forum is envisaged as a single-day affair. If it is to go beyond that, that will be up to the forum, the Houses, the Ministers and so on. That is as far as we have got. There will be this event and there will be a report. Is that an accurate characterisation of where we are at?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair question and a good challenge.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a reasonable consideration. In establishing a forum where the different stakeholders come together and consider the problems, it should not be a one-off. Trying to get a balance between those two things is worth considering. I do not have all the answers, but I do not think everything will be resolved in a day. It would be a good step forward, however. We all need to think about...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept the point made by Ms Donaghy that there is incredible talent in the industry. Neither the committee nor any of the members are trying to talk down the creative ability and potential of the Irish film industry and all those who work down it. Far from it. We could bolster that potential significantly if we resolved some of these issues, however. I hope we are all on the same page....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the process for allocating school buses to schools or to areas within the greater Dublin area. [3120/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will lift the mandatory 90-day period for being declared homeless for HAP tenants if the tenant finds a property before the 90 days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, the alarming rate of conflict-related injury and illness affecting children there, the rate at which children are made orphans there, the destruction of Gazan hospitals, and the severe pressures on hospitals in the wider region, he is aware of calls to host Palestinian orphans in severe...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion on housing. I do not think we need to pore over the litany of failures of the Government. The facts and reality speak for themselves in terms of the catastrophic situation we are now facing with the human misery the housing and home crisis is inflicting. There are record numbers of people in emergency accommodation. People are absolutely...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is trying to deliberately mislead the public and this House about its shameful failure to discharge its responsibilities under the genocide convention. On 22 November, People Before Profit tabled a motion in the Dáil through which we appealed to the Government to discharge its responsibilities under the convention, which I remind the Government are not about holding...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was our idea; it was the Opposition's proposal.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fact.