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Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 6: To delete "strongly consider an intervention in the South Africa v Israel case at the ICJ, as a matter of urgency after the Court has made its order on preliminary measures and the filing by South Africa of its memorial in the case, which is the only appropriate process to do so and following the necessary legal and policy analysis;" and substitute the following: ...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thousands of people will gather outside the Dáil at 5.30 this evening to express their absolute outrage and fury at the genocidal massacre Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza as we speak, blowing children, mothers and innocent civilians to bits, blowing up residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches and mosques, starving the people of water, food and electricity, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point of the convention then?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the December European Union Council meeting. [2805/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I first raised with the Taoiseach in Taoiseach's Questions in the middle of November the Government's responsibility and obligations under the Genocide Convention. I have repeatedly raised it with him since and tried to explain it to him in multiple interventions, including in a Dáil motion in November. We are still discussing motions, and did so again this week, but the Government is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also repeat the issue about the film workers. Over the new year the WRC issued an absolutely damning ruling on the treatment of 38 members of the Irish Film Workers’ Association and established they had been blacklisted by Metropolitan Films International, which is probably the biggest recipient of section 481, and that their rights under the fixed-term workers legislation had been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The children's disability network teams are sometimes made up of staff who are HSE employees and other times involve workers from Enable Ireland. The latter are section 39 workers and are on lesser pay and conditions than the former. There is a big impact as a consequence of that because teams that are staffed by section 39 workers are having much more difficulty in recruiting people as a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are doing the same job.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about it?

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thousands of people will be outside the Dáil tonight asking the Government to finally discharge its responsibilities under the genocide convention to prevent the commission of an ongoing genocide. It is a matter of shame that as a former colony that was a victim of colonialism, of apartheid laws such as the penal laws, and of brutal suppression of our attempts to assert our...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of it was to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, to hear what it thinks about the WRC ruling. The Department of Finance might have comments on this as well. The issue of the forum is mostly for the Department of culture, but I would like to hear from anyone who is involved. I assume all Departments are involved to some degree. There is also the issue of the copyright.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that coming from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept the answer but I will just ask a question. Who is actually responsible for ensuring there is compliance with the condition of quality employment and training and the declaration that all the film producers sign? There are Government statements to the effect that there would be consequences for people breaching the declaration and the conditions but it is not clear to me who is...

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...