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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions the planning application failed to meet were around things like lack of public lighting, lack of proper pest control, failure to put in correct waste management systems and other green conditions in those conditions mentioned by the Minister. What the parents of Gaelscoil Laighean find really hard to believe is that where there are particular conditions around building a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It still seems quite extraordinary that some of those conditions could not be met and that we have delays around the failure to meet some of them, some of which I just outlined. One would have thought people would know how to meet these sorts of basic conditions, or "green conditions" as they were described to me. We must also remember that this is a long saga. The school was originally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that she intends to address the recruitment issues in schools, particularly in the cities and the commuter belt around Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57935/22]

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is complicated and it takes a while to get your head around it. The CEO of Screen Producers Ireland, who struck the agreement referred to by the Minister, gave evidence to the WRC in a case taken by a film crew worker that there was no possible basis, having due regard to the realities of the sector, on which a relationship of employment could be said to have existed between the parties...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying it is the structure of the relief. I am asking the Minister to go to Europe and ask for an adjudication on this. That is a reasonable thing to ask, is it not? How is that not a reasonable thing to ask, seriously, if there is question mark? Have we not been down this road before with compliance or non-compliance with EU directives, where people had to go all the way to flipping...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 481 relief is state aid. Therefore, it has to comply with EU directives in this area. People cannot negotiate away their rights. They cannot do that. They are not allowed to do it. I want the Minister to understand the point I am making. People cannot negotiate away their rights. No group that claims to represent the industry can negotiate away their rights. I will send the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 17: In page 65, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Wealth Taxes 24.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil on the amount of revenue that would be raised if he were to establish a Wealth Tax that taxed the top 5 per cent of households 2 per cent of their accumulated wealth less 1 million...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 21: In page 85, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Reports 30.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil on intra-group transfers and whether reliefs on such transfers are being used as a means to shift profits and reduce taxable income.”.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 27: In page 101, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “Reports 40.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on amending the guidelines in relation to section 481 (Film Tax Relief), to clearly define the requirement for producer companies in receipt of the relief to be the legally responsible employer for all...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, I am fully aware the figure is not the taxable profit. Indeed it is precisely the point I make year after year. There are gross profits and then there is a myriad of tax reliefs, deductions and allowances that write down the taxable profit. That is the problem. Workers get a few tax credits but they do not see the level of write-down in what is taxable in their income that...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Committee Stage, I asked the Minister about the projections for corporate pre-tax gross profits. I just found the note in that regard. To be honest, it is unbelievable. Deputy Barry just estimated what it might be, but it is way in excess of that. This is newsworthy. I do not know if the Minister has put this information out there, but Janey Mac. The Minister is estimating that gross...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is correct. It is just not good enough for the people. Believe me, we are engaging with the local authority. Sometimes that helps us get solutions, but more often than not, it does not. So many people are falling through the cracks and that number is growing all the time. It is just not good enough. I am not going to describe motives or anything else, but I do think there is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not surprisingly, the Minister is not able to answer the question as to what I say to Jacqueline, Richard and their two children who are facing homelessness because they are being evicted by their landlord on the grounds of sale, which the Government allows. In the middle of a housing emergency, which the Minister does not want to acknowledge, he is allowing evictions. What do I say to...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7: In page 15, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Renters Tax Credit 12.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil on whether a regime of rent controls would be a more effective way to support renters than a renters tax credit.”. To move things along, I did not intervene in the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good point, and they should possibly pay an extra levy just for that. That is certainly the logic of our proposals to redress the balance in terms of net earnings ultimately, which is what we are trying to do through a myriad of means. I would say in response to the Minister's direct response to our proposal that in order to cover the cost of abolishing the USC, which he promised he...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will tell Deputy Durkan what I do not understand. All of the people in various categories who earn in excess of €100,000, such as Ministers, executives of companies, upper management in companies, bankers, consultant doctors and barristers - I am sure we could think of others - do valuable work. However, is their work more valuable than a nurse's work? Should their work be...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Reports 2. Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the cost to the exchequer of abolishing the USC and replacing it with a High Income Social Charge of 10 per cent on all earnings over €90,000.”. This amendment asks the...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If she is entitled to illness benefit, she should be entitled to the fuel allowance, which she should have been getting for the past nine years, as well as the cost-of-living payment. The Minister should do something about this. Beyond that, I see no justification for why people on illness benefit, jobseeker's benefit, maternity benefit, death benefit, injury benefit, or carer's benefit...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought there were 20-minute slots.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chairman can give me half an hour, if she wants.