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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.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The simple fact about the situation for the vast majority of people on middle and low incomes, working people, or people dependent on pensions or social welfare is that they will be worse off next year than they were this year. This is the fundamental fact. As much as the Government may try and bedazzle people with a long list of measures it has taken to try to mitigate the absolutely...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the new British Prime Minister. [57448/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe last met. [54849/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [54848/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many thousands of people will come out on the streets for the Raise the Roof demonstration because of the failure of the Government to address the absolutely diabolical housing and homelessness crisis. I have brought to the Gallery some of the people for whom this is a life and death matter. Deputy Bacik may not have been aware that some of the residents of Tathony House she referred to are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to look those people in the eyes. There has to be a solution. They have done nothing wrong. They paid their rent, they worked and they paid their taxes. The Taoiseach cannot say that there may not be an answer because of this legislative shortcoming or that legislative loophole. If people's incomes, for example, are under €53,000, even according to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am asking the Taoiseach to do. Please do it for these people who do not deserve to be put through what they are being put through at the moment.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention was drawn to the disrespect shown to the Irish flag by the Israeli occupation forces, acting on behalf of the Israeli government, during its raid on the Ramallah offices of a human rights organisation (details supplied); if so, if he conveyed his objections to the Israeli government through diplomatic channels; if his...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. In the middle of a debate on an unprecedented and utterly dire housing and homelessness emergency, the Minister responsible for housing said there is no emergency and has now left the debate before it is over. If people did not have enough reasons to come out on the street this Saturday for the Raise the Roof demonstration, that...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We campaigned for that for years.

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: European Council (22 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, when Bertie Ahern was shaking the hand of Vladimir Putin, some of us were protesting outside the Russian embassy about Putin's bloody and murderous invasion of Chechnya. I did not see the Taoiseach there. We are consistent. He is right when he says we are against illegal annexations in eastern Ukraine by Russia. Nobody should facilitate such things; he is right. Next...

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the military and emissions.

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While their army just keeps-----