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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think I am correct in saying that public money was originally involved in Ardmore Studios.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are film studios. I think it is legitimate to mention film studios. I honestly do. Can we not mention film studios?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will just call them film studios, including the former national studio. To ensure I understand this aspect, I think public money went into all these studios and the ongoing operation of section 481 would have contributed to their maintenance. Is it correct to say those studios have no employees?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are no crew workers in those studios, however.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps I am innocent, but it seems very odd to me.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. O'Brien and Ms Quinn. It is to be hoped that what they described will be an eye-opener for people. We all agree, as they do, that we want to see continued State support for film, the arts and culture but we want it to benefit performers, actors and crews. They are telling us that support is not doing as it should in respect of that. To put it bluntly, and I asked this at a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Please do.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does. It is a very stark picture and rather a depressing one, with all of this public money going in. I will fire a few more questions at Mr. O'Brien before my time runs out and I hope he can come back on them, and I know Ms Quinn also wants to come in. I understood from hearing what was said earlier that one contrast is that if someone is working on a film in Ireland just for a few...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. O'Brien answered many of the questions. I had asked what happens to actors and performers who do not want to sign a buy-out contract? How likely are they to get work if they were to say something like that? I asked the question about something in the executive summary of Irish Equity's main submission which our committee should certainly take very seriously. It pointed out that the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Ms Quinn and Mr. O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The arts committee in 2018 recommended such a stakeholder forum. It should have happened but never did and we are the worse for it. It should happen as a matter of urgency. The DAC structure seems incredibly problematic. They are like mushrooms jumping up and down. They appear, disappear and make the whole thing opaque. You do not know where your intellectual property rights are gone....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Arkins think we are in serious breach of EU directives around state aid, etc? I think we are, and I would like a comment on this point. I refer as well to companies of scale and the other conditions in respect of what is happening in the context of section 481. I would also like Mr. Arkins to comment briefly on the studios here. I am curious about this point. Public money was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are a hell of a lot more than challenges. There is one nurse to 14 patients on wards in St. Vincent's hospital. We have major shortages of staff across the healthcare system, including mental health services, and among special needs assistants, SNAs. Teachers are leaving Dublin - we have seen the reports - because they cannot afford to live here. Reeling off statistics about public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They may be facts but they do not explain why we have major staff shortages across our health service and, therefore, long waiting lists and a crisis in our emergency departments, and classes being cancelled because teachers have nowhere to live. What are we going to do about this? I have a proposal. The Minister stated that we should not spend the windfall tax receipts on ongoing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. I invite the Minister to drive with me along the N11 towards Cherrywood and down to Shankill. At the end of the road, he will find the LDA's first site, but there will not be houses there for another two years. Before we get there, he will see many large apartment developments that are nearing completion or have just been completed. Who will own them and who will live in them?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that he intends to solve the recruitment crisis across the public sector in Dublin given the lack of availability of affordable rents and the high cost of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48394/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that he intends to solve the recruitment crisis across the public sector, particularly in the major urban centres given the lack of availability of affordable rents or house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48310/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure, or I hope, the Minister is aware that we have a major crisis in being able to recruit and retain teachers, nurses, other allied health professionals and people in the mental health area and many other key areas, such as construction and so on. At the back of all of this, as the reports coming out make clear if it was not already clear, is the lack of affordable housing for people,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister of State may know, I also put in, before the summer, a whole series of detailed questions on this area of the OPW’s property portfolio. Since we returned to the House, frankly, I think we need to take a serious look at the management of that portfolio. Another thing to add to this debate is that in one of the answers the Minister of State gave me before the summer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not sell Dublin Garda stations-----