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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends to respond to requests made by an organisation (details supplied) for greater Government support for musicians and others working in the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3725/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to concerns being raised by Equity about the failure of producer companies to vindicate the rights of actors, performers, directors and writers in relation to intellectual property and EU directives and whether she intends to take action; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3721/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a report on the pilot basic income for artists scheme; if she intends to implement it for all artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3723/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his plans to accelerate the servicing of housing land in order that councils can include plans for social and affordable homes on these lands in their targets to 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3651/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is planning to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2023; what other measures will he put in place to stop the flow of people into homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3648/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way he will ensure that all the people now eligible for social housing due to change in income limits will be put back on the list urgently so they will be eligible for allocations as a matter of urgency as many of these people have missed out on allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3649/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide all details of the way he will address the huge shortfall in the delivery of social housing under Housing for All; his plans to address, particularly, the lack of three and four bedroomed family homes in the pipeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3652/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role that his Department has in ensuring that funding is in place to meet the pay demands of the members of an organisation (details supplied) in the retained Fire Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the National Development Plan commitments on social housing are currently being fulfilled by Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2366/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 312. To ask the Minister for Health what options are open to ensure the allocation of a social worker for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3826/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the features of our shared island is the demoralisation of nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers both North and South. Tomorrow, there will be further strike action by nurses in the North over a pay cut, in real terms, that they are suffering, where there is extreme demoralisation among nurses and a severe crisis in being able to recruit and retain them because of massive...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And if not, we will blow ourselves to hell.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a fairly terrifying development, yesterday the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was instigated by Albert Einstein and other atomic scientists in 1945, moved the doomsday clock to 90 seconds to midnight from previously being 100 seconds to midnight. The atomic scientists describe this as a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation. Previously, the nearest the clock...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that the Cabinet committee was concerned with the well-being of children. I wonder has he considered two things in respect of our National Educational Psychological Service. The child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, suggests a damning situation in respect of the treatment of young people with mental health issues and so on. There is a big overlap between...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should get rid of fees for educational psychologists.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee that deals with education will next meet. [3407/23]

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this important motion, which we are happy to support. Many of those who are speaking are from the west and the south, where coastal communities and people working in fishing are being severely impacted by rising energy costs, the cost-of-living crisis, the impact of Brexit and so on. However, it may surprise people to know, because it is not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair might let somebody else go first.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As Mr. Coffey is aware, one of my favourite subjects is the effective corporate tax rate. It was also addressed by Deputy Doherty. If I heard Mr. Coffey correctly, he stated that the level of deductions and allowances is relatively minimal.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Reliefs and credits. In the document, however, they look pretty huge. The document provides the most recent figures, for 2020, with €193 billion in gross trading profits. After allowances and losses forward, the taxable figure goes down to €114 billion. The amount to be taxed drops by 70% or 80%. Mr. Coffey is probably better at maths than I am. It drops by an enormous...