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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a bit unfair on the witnesses but I would not mind. Will the Chair be going over to vote?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the witnesses hang on for ten minutes?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The PACT-Equity agreement and intellectual property rights are contentious. The simple contention is that the PACT-Equity agreement is far superior. That is what workers want. I think our guests know that is what they want. Why not just give it to them? As simply as that, I ask the question. Why not just give it to them? It is a better deal and I do not understand why our guests would...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do, unfortunately.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not going to resolve this now but there are clear judgments at European level about the issue. What Mr. Lowe is saying is that somebody could have had 15 fixed-term contracts with Element Pictures DACs that did not apply over four consecutive years, therefore giving him or her absolutely no rights or an entitlement to a contract of indefinite duration. I presume Element Pictures does...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not a single one has a contract of indefinite duration, even though he or she may have worked for Element Pictures ten or 15 times.
- Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I must comment on my disappointment that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has left, given that the Government earlier, on the confidence motion, spent a lot of its time claiming rather disingenuously that members of the Opposition were not here. We will see to what extent anybody really bought that, but it was part of a concerted effort to prevent the real, substantial...
- Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not. I campaigned for it for 15 years.
- Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on.
- Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit’s no-confidence motion had nothing to do with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, as an individual. It had nothing to do with cynicism and certainly was not a stunt. Rather, it was a desperate attempt to force the Government to acknowledge its housing policies are failing thousands upon thousands of real human beings in the most terrible way. It is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear about what I was saying about Debehams, the Debenhams group which had been taken over by three vulture funds including two banks, Barclays and Bank of Ireland, saddled a floating charge of €200 million on the Irish operation. That would have been clear to anyone who was looking at it and should have been clear to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment when KPMG...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with church leaders. [61329/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interest of time, I will let my question go.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with the social partners. [61330/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)
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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A failure of oversight.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On 9 April 2020, more than 1,000 Debenhams workers received an email telling them that they had lost their jobs. The researchers who are making a film about the Debenhams dispute have just uncovered evidence which suggests very strongly that the three vulture funds, and a consortium including Bank of Ireland, had orchestrated this liquidation precisely one year before, in order to get around...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I sent the Taoiseach today the evidence that has been dug up by the researchers into the film that is being made about Debenhams which, by the way, will be shown in the Dublin Theatre Festival in February or March, but they would like some answers in advance of that in respect of who knew what and the role of KPMG, the Bank of Ireland and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She also wrote to him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on transport will next meet. [59252/22]