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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To subsidise investors.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very much to the credit of many of the tens of thousands of people who are affected by defective apartments and the consequences of cowboy builders who were allowed to run amok in this country that, finally, we have a redress scheme. I welcome that fact, that assurances are being given it will be 100% redress and that it will be retrospective. However, the devil is always in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach confirm he is willing to allow a debate on the Coillte issue? I asked at the Business Committee and the members of the Opposition all agreed that they want a Dáil debate next week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach confirm that he will facilitate that debate?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think there should be a question and answer session. I want to raise what I believe is a scandal. That is the planned deal between Coillte and the UK investment fund, Gresham House. It is essentially the State facilitating and financing a corporate grab by a for-profit investment fund of tens of thousands of hectares of land and forestry in this country. I asked the Chief Whip at...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in the Central Bank report.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That family is not benefiting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Paying their gas bill.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and to resource our hospitals to deal with the dire crisis we are facing in our health services. Will the Government now introduce a wealth tax to start to redistribute some of the huge wealth that exists in this country but which is not being shared equally with the people of the country who generated this wealth?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the Taoiseach is right. There is no conspiracy; it is naked, brazen greed. The Taoiseach's answer does not explain how the number of people with more than €50 million or the number of people with up to €5 million in personal wealth has doubled. It does not explain how corporate profits have trebled in the last ten years while ordinary people are suffering. Let me give...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----taking advantage of the cost-of-living crisis to enrich themselves at the expense of families like this. Would a wealth tax not be a way to address that gross inequality?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, affair raises worrying and alarming questions about the relationship between politics and big business, the trip the Taoiseach will be taking to the World Economic Forum at Davos after Leaders' Questions, where he will spend a few days swanning around with some of the world's richest people and most profitable and wealthy corporations, also raises even bigger...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will say one thing on these figures that have been alluded to. We are talking about 3,265 whole time equivalents and that includes extras and that over a two-year period that is 34,000. As we know, extras are not people who are really employees of the industry. They are people who may come in and out so they can be discounted as being part of a permanent creative pool that is supposed to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----how that is tenable.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was in the news. It was on RTÉ.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well look-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, Ms Nash.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The difficulty I have with all of that is, first, that they often refer to collective agreements. A collective agreement in an industry has to be between an employer and an employee. However, the people who get the relief have told us they do not employ anybody and the designated activity company, DAC, employs people. How can somebody who has no employees sign up to a collective agreement?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ones who come in here representing the guilds are the hirers and firers. That is who is coming in here. Ms Nash knows it.