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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it Deputy Nash again or myself?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have one supplementary question each left.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have always argued that multinational capital is not quite as mobile as the Minister thinks. They make big investments and do not just run off and leave them overnight. The Government parties have argued that they have to get down on their knees and offer them zero-rate taxes. The rate is 12.5% in theory but in reality it is less than 1% for Apple, as we know. In reality, it is an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Trump is dangerous but the Government can go on talking to him.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations and scenario planning he is undertaking to deal with the possible implications for the Irish economy of the policies of the new Trump administration in the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering new taxation measures to replace possible losses in tax revenue given the policy announcements of the new Trump US administration and potential implications for Ireland's tax revenues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5107/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning further changes to section 481 film credit to vindicate employment rights of film workers and to ensure greater security of employment of film workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5108/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to close tax incentives benefitting vulture funds, other property-related investment funds and profit driven investors to prevent them buying up residential property given the on-going housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5109/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he read the latest wealth report by an organisation (details supplied); and if it will make him re-consider a wealth tax on the assets of multi-millionaires and billionaires to address inequality in the distribution of wealth. [5106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Disputes (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had or if he is planning to have discussions with the Minister for Health regarding the planned industrial action of Section 39 workers and similarly the recent ballots for industrial action by other health workers in relation to the 'pay and numbers' strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rules for grants for taxi drivers to replace their vehicles with electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5234/25]

European Union Regulations: Motion (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to support this motion for Ireland to opt in to the negotiating mandate on the EU-UK youth experience scheme. It is worth noting that the consequences of the anti-immigrant sentiment that drove the right wing campaign in the UK against the EU are now becoming apparent. It should be a salutary warning to people who want to go down the road of anti-immigration that it comes back to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Classical economists Karl Marx and David Ricardo, on different sides of the political spectrum, agreed that all wealth is derived from labour. One of our biggest problems is skills shortages in every sector of our economy, whether it is construction, the health service, education or retail. The reason is increasing numbers in their tens of thousands of young people are bailing out of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Society is not a football game. Perhaps the Taoiseach thinks it is. We need our housing to be affordable for young people and to remove financial barriers to education that drive many of our young people out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not very stable for tenants.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Impose minimum standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about rehousing people when they are in those conditions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should impose minimum standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: About a week ago, I raised the plight of tenants in Sallynoggin who have been living in council houses for years with infants and children where there is mould all over the walls, all of the time, water running down the insides of the walls and rodent infestations. The tenants are still being forced to live there. It has been earmarked for redevelopment but the point is that the tenants...