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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was the vote called just now?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has just been called. If we have time, could someone comment on the question of wealth and the richer getting richer?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: In one sense.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A report was done by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine approximately two years ago which suggested, astonishingly, that Ireland’s forest estate was a net carbon emitter. That was a shocking fact. Why might that be? It was because people who were interested in profit, rather than addressing climate change, biodiversity or, for that matter, supporting rural...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The figure of 11,500 people who are currently homeless is going to continue to swell unless the Government takes urgent emergency measures to stop the flow into homelessness. The major reason the vast majority of those people are homeless is because they have been evicted; the vast majority of whom have done absolutely nothing wrong. Next Friday week, I will be going into court with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are being evicted at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have done nothing wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are people being evicted on grounds of sale at the moment, who have done nothing wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [61331/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much every farmers' organisation, every organisation that represents communities in rural Ireland and every environmental organisation I can think of are utterly opposed to this deal. They say, rightly, that it is likely to drive up the price of agricultural land, squeezing out farmers and making it more difficult for them to engage in sustainable afforestation. As I said, it will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons the issue of a political donation to Deputy Donohoe is so damaging to politics is because it is distracting from issues that would otherwise be dominating the debate and discussion in this House this week. One of those is the utterly scandalous and unacceptable proposal by Coillte to partner with an UK equity fund to buy up thousands of hectares of land and forestry in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte-Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; if he will outline the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) on wealth inequality in Ireland that found the number of Irish people with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people, and that the two richest people in Ireland have more wealth than the poorest 50% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by an organisation (details supplied) for a wealth tax of graduated rates of 2%, 3% and 5% on wealth above €4.7m, in which the organisation stated that such a wealth tax would raise €8.2 billion annually, with the potential to transform Irish public services in health, housing and education;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that leading global tax researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen (details supplied) have identified Ireland as a major tax haven and estimate that Ireland artificially attracts €130 billion in profits from other countries and gains €7.2 billion in tax...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on how a tenant who is on an electricity sub meter with pre-pay power, where the landlord has a commercial account, can access the electricity grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2989/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of applications for exceptional needs payments due to financial hardship, by social welfare areas, month by month for 2021 and 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2722/23]