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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I mean is that the public was always going to pay because it had to be cost neutral. There was never any question that anybody other than the public was going to pay for the secret payments to Ryan Tubridy. Is that not correct?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, RTÉ, that is, the public, was always going to pay. Whatever about who knew-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but somehow the people who concocted this deal knew that the public was always going to pay but they were going to conceal that fact. There has been some questioning of whether it is only the director general and maybe the former CFO who knew. People are asking if it is credible that nobody here knew, and that is a very reasonable question. The witnesses' answer seems to be that the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not like the expression "the talent". Who are "the talent" when this term is being used? One of the backdrops to this is there are people, including crew members, camera people, people who make stages, administration people and journalists who are on a fraction of the wages of the top people, who, if I understand the use of this term correctly, are somehow defined as "not the talent"....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Lynch. We think and a lot of the staff think that caps on the salaries of this so-called "top talent" need to be introduced because it is just not fair on the people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier, the Taoiseach referred to what he described as “our allies” in NATO. He also mentioned Britain. Of course, we have close connections, huge numbers of English people are here, and they are our neighbours. However, I have to question this thinking because at the moment our so-called "ally", as the Taoiseach described it, has introduced a law that is going to make it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we get a report before the summer recess or as part of the summer statement?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach his intention to establish additional units-divisions in his Department to those outlined in the programme for Government. [30975/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single household and family, especially families with children, who end up homeless and are evicted into homelessness through no fault of their own are being let down by the State. They are being very badly let down. They are being traumatised. I have heard the Taoiseach say most people get out of homelessness within a relatively short time, but that is not the experience I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The scandal of the secret payments to Ryan Tubridy in RTÉ has highlighted very serious questions about governance and oversight in public bodies in receipt of large amounts of public funding. Of course, it is gut wrenching for the ordinary workers in RTÉ, the ordinary journalists who do not benefit from these staggering salaries that a small few at the top got, or the additional...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [30974/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the peace and anti-war protestors who have challenged the shocking bias of the Government’s so-called forum on security matters, which is heavily stacked with people who are pro NATO and pro EU militarisation and has almost no voices of those who are concerned about and warning against the Government’s de facto pulling of Ireland closer to NATO, an alliance dominated...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The UK's record is not brilliant, is it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should watch "Mad Men".

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have no teeth.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why we need to hear from the Minister.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The revelations about secret payments to Ryan Tubridy in RTÉ have been a kick in the teeth to public confidence in the State broadcaster and a kick in the teeth to the ordinary journalists and workers in RTÉ who have done nothing wrong and who, while this payments were being made, had to endure pay cuts, pay freezes, bogus self-employment, zero-hour contracts and many other...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the plans to install fibre optics in the Foxrock area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by increasing the corporate tax rate to 20% and 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30992/23]