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- 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.
- 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.