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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are different aspects to these amendments but all of them revolve around the critical question of quality employment and training, whether it is for actors, writers, directors, performers or crew. I hope the Minister is hearing, because we certainly heard at the budget scrutiny committee where we examined this matter in detail, and it is a matter I have been raising at every Finance...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When was that? Could the Minister repeat that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, can I-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we not discuss them as a group? I thought we would discuss them-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister have a chance to respond, finally?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is slightly odd that we have done it this way. We are going to go back in after a vote and continue debating the same grouping.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, okay. You are the Chair.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 23: In page 71, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(4) Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister will produce a report on how he or she intends to implement the other recommendations in the budgetary oversight committee report in section 481, particularly those regarding ensuring quality employment and training, so as to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but I want to finish first.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not worry. The rest of the Bill will move along. This is the last chance I will get to say what I want to say. It is systematic and it needs to be addressed. When we are making reference to SPI-ICTU construction agreements we need to recognise that SPI is not registered. This also relates to what is a reasonable suggestion, certainly one that bears consideration, namely, a sectorial...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be finished in a minute.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will finish in a minute. I have completely lost my train of thought, thanks to that intervention.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I would like to finish the point. I am not against the cap being raised. However, the people who are going to benefit from the raising of this cap are the bigger companies coming in. Very few film productions have even got up to the €70 million. I am not against it but I am pointing out it is not necessarily going to stimulate the Irish film industry, although it may bring...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am finished. By the way, there is no reason to interrupt me because we are allowed to have the time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not appreciate the Acting Chair interrupting me repeatedly. I do not appreciate it. I am finished now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where has the peace process been for the last 25 years?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the recently published annual report of his Department. [43877/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach referred to the Government's commitment to promote biodiversity and address the climate crisis. I would like to take the opportunity to mention the sudden, unexpected and tragic death of Andrew St. Ledger of The Woodland League in the past week. I am not sure if the Taoiseach is familiar with Andrew but he would have been involved in the environmental pillar and, most notably,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am next.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I attended the demonstration in London two weeks ago. For British political and government figures to call it thuggish is absolutely outrageous. It was an entirely peaceful demonstration and the thought that there would be efforts to deter people from protesting or even banning them is absolutely outrageous. One of the things that protesters here and in Britain on that day and at all of...