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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not even mentioned some of the allowances, which also deserve scrutiny. There are big figures involved. Assuming they are part of the base is not necessarily a fair assumption. Figures that high deserve scrutiny, particularly when there is an incredible variation in them. An amount described by Revenue as a tax expenditure can jump by €6 billion or €7 billion in a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will often say on budget day that a certain amount is being allocated to additional capital expenditure and such and such. I would like to know whether the Minister and the Department have that information. When capital expenditure on housing is broken down, it includes, for example, retrofit. It does not all go to the building of houses but instead includes quite a few other...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any reason those indicative numbers could not be included in the budget book?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just make that as a suggestion, considering this is the budget scrutiny committee. It would be great if a more detailed breakdown of the programme of expenditure could be available on budget day. I understand it will be adjusted with the Revised Estimates but it would be useful if it could be included in the budget book.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department is trying.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Ms Callaghan. I understand it is a big job.
- Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a lot of stuff to deal with in the Finance Bill. It is a big document. We will no doubt tease through a lot of it in more detail on Committee Stage. It is a telling fact that, faced with an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and a shocking, disastrous, catastrophic – you just run out of adjectives to describe how bad the housing crisis is – housing crisis, the ESRI...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should stop misleading the Dáil.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To return to what the Taoiseach said about Palestine and his uncritical commitment to the so-called two-state solution, the entire history of the State of Israel has been 70 years of relentless ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinian people. The two-state solution is a mirage and a ploy promoted by Israel and the United States, behind which they continue the relentless campaign of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called Tathony House in Dublin 8.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Households.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Letters have gone to both.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [51712/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [53227/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The well-being framework rightly points to access to housing as a key component of well-being. For the more than 100 residents of Tathony House, an apartment complex in Dublin 8 with 35 households of workers, families and many children, their well-being was seriously shattered by an eviction notice from their landlord threatening the mass eviction of the entire block. Shockingly, the person...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or Iraq.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the UN General Assembly. [51711/22]