Results 2,841-2,860 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that the living alone allowance is not assessable income for medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31120/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of abolishing third-level registration and tuition fees for repeating students including the associated reduction in the student support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31167/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if PhD researchers classified as non-EU will be provided with updated residency visas with a four year duration, similar to the hosting agreement scheme used for attracting non-EU research talent; if a recommendation be made that PhD researchers have access to PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31199/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a recommendation will be made on mandating that PhD researchers have access to sick leave and/or parental leave; if a recommendation will be made for PhD researchers to have access to the Workplace Relations Commission in order to resolve disputes with their university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31200/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a recommendation will be made on establishing minimum standards for the provision of funding for PhD researchers in Ireland, including minimum standards of pay, such as the national minimum wage; and if a recommendation will be made on the matter of employee status for PhD researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31201/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the recent opinion poll showing overwhelming public support for abolition of the universal social charge; if he will give a commitment to announce the abolition of the charge in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30486/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: An opinion poll over the past week or so showed that a majority of people wanted the hated universal social charge, USC, to be abolished, something that was promised by Fine Gael in 2016. When it was imposed during the economic crisis, it was supposed to be a temporary emergency austerity tax. It was cruelly and unfairly imposed on working people, costing them thousands of euro every year....
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is rewriting history in terms of the rationale for the USC. It was not put forward on the basis of broadening tax bases or anything like that. It was put forward as an emergency tax in response to a crisis created by banks and developers and it was imposed on top of the income tax that workers paid. If you earn €45,000 per year, you pay €2,300 on top of your...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have always done that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we did not. On USC?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We never voted for the Government's budgets for other reasons.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not because of that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was because of all the other stuff in the Bills.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is the unseemly spectacle of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil scrambling over who will get the credit for the reduction in the USC. We have been consistent in all of our budget submissions since the introduction of the USC in arguing that it should be abolished and that, although the USC was unfair, its abolition should be paid for. The Minister knows this, as he has seen our budget...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We vote against the Government's finance Bill. That is a different thing.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We propose them in our budget submission every year. This is nonsense.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was in our budget submission last year as well.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can see it. I have it with me. I will show it to him.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was costed as well - €850 million.