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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.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And the fixed-term workers. Could the Taoiseach try to get me the contacts?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the meeting of the European Political Community on 1 June 2023. [29545/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might not have been aware of this, but the Writers Guild of Ireland have been protesting in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike, essentially over streaming companies and film producers robbing them of their residuals or royalties for the work they do on films, which massively cuts into the income of writers and artists. This echoes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Debenhams, here we go again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A very good People Before Profit policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Ringsend - the swimming?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the swimming?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [29544/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report for the first quarter of 2023 of the climate action plan. [29543/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, climate change, among other things, results in extreme weather events. One impact and consequence that is becoming apparent in my area, and in other areas with swimming spots around Dublin Bay, is that when we get these torrential downpours the pumping stations that deal with foul water overflow. The good weather of the past week or so has meant thousands of people...