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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was in our budget submission. The Minister is misinforming the House.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You should read our budget submission from last year.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That will cheer us all up.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for the report and for their contributions. They are my favourite group of economists. On the issue of constraints, much of this comes from labour shortages. It is fair to say that many of these interact substantially with the housing crisis. This is because many young people are leaving. It would be interesting to see the latest emigration figures. I do not know...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Is this about maybe spending in strategically important areas and not wasting money in areas that are not as strategically important? This was alluded to. I was going to allude to a quote from IFAC in this regard as well, but I think it comes from our own summary of the report. This does, though, seem to be kind of what IFAC is saying.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am aware there is net immigration, but I am still conscious there is also emigration.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be better if those people were not leaving, given the labour and skills shortages we have now.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course. I am referring to incentivising people to stay.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The other way it is possible to help in this regard is through dealing with things like underemployment. This may be, and I suspect is significantly, connected to a lack of childcare or affordable childcare. If we were to lessen this impact, then we could potentially free up significant amounts of skill and labour to help deal with these capacity constraints. Do the witnesses think a good...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be discussing this at length. I would even ask this of the Norwegians. Why should a country save it rather than use it to diversify its economy and diversify its industrial base? One of the things we learned from the last crash was that even though we had a buffer fund, the National Pensions Reserve Fund, it was gone overnight once the downturn came. It did not really act as much...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to apologise in advance because I need to go to questions in the Dáil Chamber shortly.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce new obligations on the recipients of section 481 film tax relief to end the use of buy-out contracts for performers, writers and artists which deny them their IP rights under copyright law, and a further obligation on producer company recipients of the credit to take direct responsibility as the employer for film crew on film...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a windfall tax on banks and vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30200/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that on 14 June 2023, the CEO of a charity (details supplied) outlined to the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight, wealth tax measures the Government could take that could raise up to €8 billion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30199/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (22 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a cap on mortgage interest rates to prevent families being impoverished and forced into arrears by rising interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30198/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have highlighted over recent days and weeks our fear that the Government's consultative forum is stacked with pro-NATO voices, NATO employees, generals, brigadiers, people involved with the military-industrial complex and those generally in favour of militarisation. The Taoiseach said – yesterday, I believe – that he would consider the possibility of rebalancing the forum....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In this case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to protect the workers.