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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: During the past decade, corporate profits here have gone through the roof. I estimate there has been an increase of approximately 127% in corporate profits. Last year, net household wealth increased by €89 billion to a record €883 billion and more than 50% of that is in the hands of the richest 10% of the population. In the interests of justice, fairness and equity and to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has just confirmed correctly, although he said it has reduced slightly, that the richest 10% of our population owns more than 50% of all the wealth in a study to which he referred. People need to understand how much that is. Net household wealth, according to the Central Bank report, is €883 billion. That means the richest 10% have €440 billion in personal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not in favour of taxing the family home in our wealth tax proposal. We are very explicit. We are in favour of taxing the wealth in excess of €1 million in the hands of a small group of people. I will put it another way to the Minister. We have approximately 2 million workers, and the Minister can confirm the numbers. Last year, between them they earned €130 billion...

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United Nations in New York. [48308/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The United Nations conference at Rio de Janeiro, among other things, developed a set of principles known as the forest principles, which relate to how important forestry is in combating climate change and biodiversity destruction. The Taoiseach and others attended the UN-convened COP26 and the Taoiseach was at an environmental session in New York where he discussed the issue of climate....

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach looked into the matter? Does he believe there needs to be a role for greater oversight of the sale of public forest land by the State forestry company?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [54392/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [50787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that film producer companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief (details supplied) are regularly and on a routine basis stating to the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court that they have no employment relationship with film workers who have worked on section 481 funded productions in cases in which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered ending the Special Assignee Relief Programme in the interests of just taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider abolishing the local property tax and replace the tax with a graduated second, third, fourth and so on home tax ensuring that the family home is not subject to a property tax in view of increasing inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if the provisions of section 97A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (details supplied) are subject to a limit on the number of individual residential units that a landlord can claim for; the number of residential units for which these reliefs have been claimed that have been brought into use in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the total...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from section 28 of the Finance Bill 2021 that inserts a new section 25A into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 with provisions relating to attribution of profits to a branch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54677/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from the provisions of section 481 of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 relief for investment in films; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from the provisions of section 32 of the Finance Bill 2021 that amends the definition of eligible expenditure in section 481 to confirm that payments made directly by a qualifying company to an individual involved in the provision of labour-only services for the purposes of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is planning to put in place to ensure that section 32 of the Finance Bill does not contribute to bogus self-employment in the film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54680/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the revenue foregone over the past five years from section 481 of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 relief for investment in films by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses that are receiving payments under the employment wage subsidy scheme; the amount has been paid in total under the scheme to date in 2021; and the amount that is budgeted for payment in 2022; and the changes to rules for eligibility for this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from the provisions of section 72 of the Finance Bill 2021 that removes the prohibition on reduction of penalties in offshore cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54683/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of individual vacant sites and beneficial owners to which the vacant sites levy has been applied; the amount of revenue that has been raised by the levy in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to-date in 2021; the amount of tax due that remains to be collected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54684/21]