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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Quite genuinely, I am long since past just wanting solutions for people who are in those situations, experiencing the trauma and hardship I have described. I could go on listing the examples I am dealing with now for many hours. The list of equally horrendous cases is endless. The misery is endless. Notwithstanding political debate and all that, I just want to see solutions because this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can show them to the Minister if he wants.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 52: In page 84, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "Report (Chapter 5 of Part 29 of Principal Act (taxation of companies engaged in knowledge development)) 33.Within 3 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil into the amount of public subsidy for Knowledge Development Box and if it would be better as a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 53: In page 84, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: "Reports 34.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 those...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At some length.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to respond to the Minister, but if the Acting Chair wishes to end proceedings because it is getting late, I understand.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Adjourn now.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even the WHO has said that being a bus driver is one of the most stressful jobs. I think it is the third most stressful job you can have. With traffic congestion in Dublin and so on, that is made even worse. Competitive tendering is creating a race to the bottom and Go-Ahead Ireland is the worst offender. It haemorrhaged bus drivers over the last year because pay and, particularly,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have in front of me a litany of complaints from local constituents over bus services in their area. There are horror stories about the failure of buses to turn up at all or on time, in particular Go-Ahead buses. We have had similar complaints at the transport committee, at which Go-Ahead and Dublin Bus appeared today. I put it to the Minister very simply that the reason this is happening...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: 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.”. Once upon a time, Fine...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will reply to the Minister's point in response to our suggestion of a higher income social charge to replace revenues from the USC, which People Before Profit believes should be abolished because it was an austerity tax and an unfair imposition on workers that has massively increased the tax burden on ordinary workers ever since it was introduced. Notwithstanding some reductions and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair point. Largely, the discussion has been aired. I do not think our proposals are in any sense magicking money out of the air. We think it is entirely legitimate and justified to replace the USC, which was an austerity tax. Commitments were given to replace it, which is still a reason for very considerable anger among ordinary workers who saw their tax burden increase very...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to be pressed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot vote. I am not a member of the committee.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will cite an instance of that because it is always worth thinking about real people. Private security workers have become very active around their low pay. The committee will be aware of an employer - I probably cannot mention him but his name is well out there - who is trying to block a very minimal pay increase for private security workers. The current minimum level of their pay is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no problem with that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure there is a fully integrated, fully accessible transport system across the country, including a door-to-door service and that this would be covered by the free transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55023/22]