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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just saying, that it is pretty stunning.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is connected to the rationale for this.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, on the VAT.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the VAT. I am talking about the mineral tax.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fine. I have made the point that I am against these regressive taxes because they are punishing people who do not have alternatives and choices. The Government should be providing them with the alternatives and choices to reduce fossil fuel use rather than punishing them, which is what is actually happening. For goodness sake, even if the Government cannot agree with us on that, to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. Seriously-----

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, Deputy, never. Not only that, to be honest we were campaigning against it before the Rural Independent Group was. I had to point it out to the Deputy’s brother at the budgetary scrutiny committee when they were going to remove a tax relief on fuel that would have seriously affected rural Ireland. He had not noticed it until I pointed it out to him. Luckily enough, that...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I just want to correct the record. I am sure that it was not intentional by Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, but he got it wrong if he was suggesting that People Before Profit ever supported in any shape or form or voted for the carbon tax, because we most certainly did not. This year, as was the case in every year that it has appeared, we voted against it. We put it in our pre-budget...

Allocation of Time: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I will not call a vote but I want it noted that the final item is disposing of €5 billion. It is a big decision to put it into the rainy day fund rather than, for example, spend it on housing or other things. We should have a full debate and a hell of a lot more than two minutes each. I wish to object to that fact. I will not call a full vote but I do not agree...

Allocation of Time: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is only because we will lose time later; it is Hobson's choice.

Allocation of Time: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will call for a voice vote.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point is that the real democracy was happening out on the streets of Dublin on Saturday when 20,000 people came out in what was one of the biggest demonstrations we have seen in recent years with workers, students, pensioners, people with disabilities, and people from all over the country. They are sick of this Government, sick of the spin and sick of the propaganda, when they know the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the Business Committee, I suggested that we should do something to change the format of this budget debate. Quite frankly, it was designed to facilitate a lot of spin by the Government, and then to bore the pants off people for about five hours after that, to the point at which people would lose the will to live.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add home care assistants to the critical skills occupations list to address the crisis in recruitment for home carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the current average wait time for an NCT booking in the Dublin centres is six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the interim building will be in place for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46802/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for three autism classes in a school (details supplied); when they will be able to go out to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for a working person in receipt of a widow's pension being unable to claim illness benefit if they fall ill; if there are any other benefits available to a person in this position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46901/22]