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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will come to that point. It is a fair point.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy English for his-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but these points are being made, so for the record, I want to see more money being put into research and development. I do not want to see more money being put into the pockets of those 200 companies because they have enough. I will make the point, when we consider all of this in the round, that there should be a general acceptance that our economy, and economic and industrial model is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will also point out that there is a big contrast with the rest of Europe, in terms of how we are treating our PhD researchers in the public system. We are giving all the tax breaks to that few hundred companies, and our PhD researchers live in poverty. In Europe it is the other way round.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the whole committee get that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with this. As the Minister probably knows, I am a long-standing advocate of a wealth tax. We have always included it in our pre-budget submissions. It is long overdue that we introduce a wealth tax. I am sure the Minister is aware that Oxfam proposed something very similar to what People Before Profit proposed. In its calculations, it reckoned that imposing the wealth tax on...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These three amendments are all focused on the same issue. It is a matter I have raised many times, as the Minister knows. Since the previous Finance Bill, when we debated some of the issues extensively in this committee, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight has produced a report on the section 481 tax relief. That report includes a whole series of recommendations. What the Minister has...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not mentioning the company or the individual. Without identifying them, I am simply pointing out that this person had worked for the same company in receipt of section 481 relief on multiple successive productions, all funded under the section. His representative group gave evidence to the arts committee here that there was blacklisting and lack of quality employment and training, and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can reflect overnight and maybe then he will agree with us.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering a revision to budget 2024, given the context of the wide range of inflation projections for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to revise funding for any public services in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to revise his allocation of capital spending across any Departments in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46959/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he decided to increase capital expenditure by only €250 million in 2024, given the large surpluses in the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47028/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to ban log imports following the confirmation of the spruce bark beetle (ips typographus) in Scotland; if so, the date he will bring in the ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47172/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You should not be likening those events.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Raz Segal is an Israeli historian who specialises in Holocaust and genocide studies. He is among many who in the past couple of weeks have described what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza as genocide. This is an Israeli historian. The Taoiseach may have seen many Jewish people in New York, Canada and across the world raising their voices over what Israel is doing to Gaza and describing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach believe it is time to end European Union subsidies to the apartheid State committing genocide against Palestinians?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent European Political Community meeting in Granada, Spain. [46434/23]