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Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a member of the Business Committee, I requested this special debate on Coillte some weeks ago. Like many who were on the protest today and many of the thousands who have signed the "Save our Forest - Save our Lands" petition, I was absolutely horrified by the proposed deal between Coillte, a public forest company that is owned by the people, and a vulture fund. And Gresham House is, in...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will explain why it is a vulture fund. I will set the context for this. Our forests were destroyed by colonial and imperial plunder. It was brought down to about 1% in a country that used to have 80% forest of native woodland. One of the objectives and missions of the revolutionaries who fought for the independence of this State, right back to Parnell and the revolutionaries who fought...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2022; the other measures he will put in place to stop the flow of people into homelessness; if those measures will include an increase in the number of Part V property bought, allowing councils and approved housing bodies, AHBs, to buy homes where people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a priority question and the senior Minister is not here, which I find unacceptable. On Friday week I will accompany to the court Jackie and her husband - he has worked all his life for a State company and they have two kids - for a case involving an enforcement order, following which they will most likely be evicted from their home having done nothing wrong. Because they are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the problem when the senior Minister is not here: we just get script. No disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, but that is the problem. None of what he said stops the cliff edge Jackie, her husband and their two kids face in being evicted next Friday from the home in which they have lived all their lives, and this during what is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know the Minister of State is not, but the Minister is. Jackie and her husband, who, I repeat, works for a State company, with their two kids have written to the Minister, to the Taoiseach and to everybody. They have written to Frank Curran, the head of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. They are over the income threshold, so none of the things the Minister of State said will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has not built a single house-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----four years later.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just pass the parcel. I have to hand an email from someone who was not even in front of our committee. Their name could not be given. It just said that they would love to chat about the film and TV industry again and that blacklisting, bullying and poor practices are alive and well and happening now in some of the 13 productions that were under way in the country at the time. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course it does. What else is it going to say? "We blacklist people every day"?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not private. It is public money.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to issues raised by film crew at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight hearings on section 481 tax relief in terms of their vulnerability to blacklisting and failure to vindicate their rights as employees under EU and national law; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I return to the subject of my earlier questions on the film industry. I will firstly address copyright and intellectual property rights. The legislation sets out that "The right to equitable remuneration conferred by this section shall not be waived by the performer and the performer shall not assign the right to equitable remuneration except to a collecting society". However, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. I will bring up the blacklisting in a second.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, although the point is, as I mentioned earlier, that if people refuse to sign those buy-out contracts and do not get a job, they are in effect blacklisted. On the specific question, in order to avail of section 481, film producer companies have to sign a declaration that they are abiding by legislation such as the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act, and they are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the recent hearings at the budget scrutiny committee about section 481 film credit and the concerns raised by Equity about the failure of producer companies to vindicate the rights of actors, performers, directors and writers in respect of intellectual property and EU directives; the concerns raised by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister may be aware that the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which I am a member of, has been examining section 481 relief, which goes to film producer companies to make films. In return, those companies are supposed to give quality employment and training and comply with all relevant legislation. The Minister may have heard Equity saying that people are being forced to waive their...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, we all share in the celebration of the success of "The Banshees of Inisherin" and "An Cailín Ciúin", but that success, which results from performances, writing and directing as well as the crews who stood behind the cameras, underlines the need to guarantee, vindicate and champion the rights of performers, writers, directors and the crew who make those films and not to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke with Equity this morning. Time and again, it has made it clear that its members are being forced to waive their rights to intellectual property and to sign contracts saying they are getting equitable remuneration when they are not. When I asked the president of Equity directly what would happen if someone did not sign the contract, the answer was that the performer would not get the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline plans for the funding of the necessary and planned works for a theatre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3724/23]