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Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just relaying what they told me.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention his name.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of the negotiation, what was told to the committee was not true. Is that better?

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply relaying what I have been told. The point is this needs to be investigated. That is all I am saying. It is an allegation but it needs to be investigated. The committee has gone as far as to write to the European Union to ask it to investigate the matter. The EU directive is clear on these issues, that under fixed-term workers legislation, there should not be the use of...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight entitled "Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 9th May, 2023. Deputy Cowen sends his apologies but he was unavoidably detained. He also made the point that he has just recently been installed as Chair of the committee...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hopefully, there are a few of us.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to thank all of the committee members who participated in the production of this report and all of the contributors who work or are involved in the film industry. I would also like to thank the former Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, Deputy Hourigan, who was the Chair during the production of this report, who inputted significantly to the report and who was open to...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is People Before Profit next.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is no problem. We oppose any involvement in the European Defence Agency or the project of European militarisation, which is accelerating at a shocking rate. We will support the Sinn Féin amendment to refer the motion to the committee but, in our view, there is no justification for getting involved with the European Defence Agency. We have opposed it, root and branch, and continue...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the creation of a State construction company to directly build both social and affordable housing and to accelerate the retrofitting of local authority housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33204/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I argue here that we need a State construction company. I think even the Minister of State would acknowledge that the delivery of social and affordable housing is less than the Government had hoped for. It has not met its own targets, and when you look at what has been built by the private sector, average prices in Dublin are now €498,000. In my area they are €610,000. If we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope we can move off the script now to have a real conversation. Of the 30,000 homes delivered, 7,000 of those were social housing, including approved housing bodies, AHBs. However, 73% of those were bought or leased. In other words, what the State is actually delivering on a not-for-profit basis is a tiny proportion. The councils only built 1,680 houses. Some 8,000 were build-to-rent,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More than 12,500 people are homeless. I am telling the Minister of State, and he can deny it all he likes, but for working people it is currently not affordable to rent or buy. It is just not affordable. I am dealing with a family, which I might address in another question. The father works in a semi-State company. He is on a decent salary. They are going to be homeless because they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing to disagree with. It is a fact.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress of the tenant-in-situ and the cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including a timeline on bringing in legislation to ensure that the tenant or local authority have first refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33205/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the local authority housing stock retrofitting programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make changes to the HAP scheme so that there is not a cliff edge if people go over the social housing income limits to ensure that there is tapered rental support for those above the limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the full details of the affordability measures put in place in Cherrywood developments in return for the LIHAF funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33207/23]