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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is more familiar with this matter. These companies are flouting the regulations. They are flouting them openly. They are signing the undertaking and then doing the exact opposite. Not only are they doing the exact opposite, they are saying there is no basis on which they can have employees. How can the Government give people tens of millions of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not complying with it. Nobody is enforcing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the companies do not make a film for another year-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and then they are statute-barred.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a joke.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is proposing any tax or other measures to counteract the accelerating cost of living in all areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21445/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question is very simple. Is the Government going to propose an emergency budget to deal with the cost-of-living crisis? The cost-of-living crisis is hitting people at every single level. It is hitting them in terms of rents, accommodation, energy prices and the cost of normal consumer goods. The value of people's pay and income is also falling commensurately with the rise in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Policy (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have just received another report about new rents going up by 9%. That is on top of rents that have effectively doubled in recent years. They are going out of control. We need measures to address that, including rent controls, because that leads directly to people being homeless. The VAT reductions the Government has provided are pathetic, given the increased energy costs people are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cost of Living Issues (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is proposing a mini-budget to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning any new tax measures to address growing income inequality in view of the recent reports of increases in senior executive pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider closing down tax loopholes such as section 110 that could be utilised by oligarchs and other financially dubious entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21449/22]

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government spent I do not know how long telling us it did not have the flexibility to reduce VAT because it would impact on the derogation. Then we discovered it could do so, as we had said. Europe was happy to move heaven and earth in some respects in response to the war in Ukraine but not in other respects, particularly in respect of trying to protect working people from the economic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [17987/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach suggested the Government's Housing for All policy is working. I would like him to try to explain that to three people in the Gallery. They are Tony, Radoslaw and Seán, who are three of the five remaining tenants in the St. Helen's Court complex in Dún Laoghaire. This Friday they will be at the Four Courts, where a vulture fund will seek an enforcement order to evict...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is all very interesting. Will the Taoiseach guarantee that Tony, Radoslaw, Seán and the other two households remaining in St. Helen's Court will not be thrown into emergency accommodation after Friday's court proceedings? That is what they want to hear. That is the commitment they need. Beyond that, why are the vulture funds allowed to do this for nothing other than greed? Why...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government can change the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the rest of them?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for all the Financial Emergency Measures in Public Interests legislation restoration dates over the remainder of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish his review of the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised on several occasions the issue of a low-paid, front-line group of people who worked all during Covid-19. Without them, many of our shops, hospitals, public transport services and many public and private corporate entities could not have functioned. I refer to private security workers. Rank-and-file security officers recently set up a new campaign, Security Officers United,...