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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on that from that, first of all it seems illogical to say that any component of that demand is the demand of ordinary, low- to middle income workers or earners, given that every bit of analysis shows that they have lost, and that demand has been depressed as a result of the cost-of-living and housing crises. It behoves us, and maybe the witnesses - I know they are not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the terrible features of the current situation in respect of interest rate hikes - whatever about the Central Bank’s macro objectives, as it were, to prevent overall inflation – is that a huge number of people with mortgages are struggling to keep a roof over their head or, even worse, have had their mortgages handed over to vulture funds. These vulture funds are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or else they cannot afford it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or we could just take their licence off them if they do not agree to appear before democratically elected members?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a very quick question. The Central Bank's quarterly report, which I always find a very useful document, contains something I have asked about, that is, the net household wealth figures, which I have a particular interest in. We all should have an interest in them. There was a good article on the evolution of the net household wealth. I think it was written by Paul somebody, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The type of wealth, yes. It does that for the overall figure. The article states that for a particular year there is a certain amount of property wealth, business assets, deposits, other financial assets, and this much debt or whatever. It would be useful, however, to see that breakdown applied to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. It is relevant to some debates being had.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful. That information may be already in the hands of the people who wrote the article.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Directly related to that, the article stated that it is now becoming easier to understand and scrutinise this information because of distributional wealth accounts. There were Central Bank and European Central Bank sources. I did not quite understand what distributional wealth accounts were, why that made it easier or where they get this information. Any further notes or information...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was all done in Conway's pub at the top of O'Connell Street, was it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Coming from a different point of view on the last point, would it be fair to say that competition in the Irish banking sector has been a disaster and that all the reckless lending practices by banks that we saw when there were more people in the market helped to contribute to the last economic crash? Indeed, when we look outside the pillar banks - not that the pillar banks are saints, by any...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected Exchequer spending for the Safe Routes to School Programme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with or will meet with the IAA in relation to their decision to cease payment of increases in pensions, in contravention of The Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993, Article 41 (5) and Article 22 para 4 (a) of EU Commission Regulation No. 2019/317, and whether he can explain the rationale for this; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of introducing light rail transport systems in the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40585/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his plans for a windfall tax, and the EU-wide plans for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39526/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide full details of the tax regime for REITs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39527/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 228. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add motor mechanics to the critical skills list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide free school transport to all primary and post-primary school students in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39518/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist. [39519/23]