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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach consider an extension?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet again, I have to raise with the Taoiseach the plight of the taxi drivers. The so-called package that was announced by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is worth about €300 per taxi driver, given that they have lost many thousands of euro in income in the past year and have carried ongoing costs. It goes nowhere near meeting the demands they made. They met with the Taoiseach and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount that could be raised by abolishing the Special Assignee Relief Programme, which was introduced in 2014 to provide a tax reduction to high earning persons who locate to Ireland for work purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount that could be raised from eliminating the refundable nature of the unused element of the research and development tax credit for corporations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33418/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 332. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consular support available to Irish passport holders in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32836/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the discrimination of Palestinian Irish passport holders in Israeli airports and travelling through Israel to Gaza or the difficulties in getting out of Gaza to return to Ireland; the representations he has made on behalf of these Irish passport holders in order to resolve the matter; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if statistical information (details supplied) will be provided in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33057/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the same visa free travel to Ireland afforded to Israeli citizens is not extended to Palestinian travellers given the need to end discrimination and mistreatment of Palestinians; if she will consider extending equal visa free travel to Palestinians; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 526. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine if the vaccine roll-out will inadvertently vaccinate persons in the 50-59 age group faster than some persons in the priority group 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25516/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many issues will impact on the Dublin Bay South by-election. One that Brigid Purcell, the candidate for People Before Profit, has been campaigning on for some time and that we hope will feature relates to the commitment in the programme for Government to deal with the wastewater problems in Dublin Bay and the ongoing discharges of untreated sewage effluent, both from the water treatment...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is only being switched on between June and September. Will the Tánaiste or the Minister ask Irish Water to switch on the ultraviolet treatment of discharges into Dublin Bay for the entire year?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the measures he is taking to support the taxi industry and taxi drivers and assist its recovery following Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the lessons he has learned in the course of the pandemic with regard to maintaining staffing levels in key areas of the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31412/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I missed Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's contribution but I suspect our amendment, No. 195, is in a similar vein in that we believe the LDA, rather than being a mechanism to open up the public land bank to private interests, should be moving in the exact opposite direction. It should aggressively seek to bring privately-owned land suitable for housing that is not being used, but is being hoarded...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the last point about the role of the local authorities and the disposal of land, to be honest, the Minister is being somewhat disingenuous. If one takes Shanganagh, it was the non-elected executive that proposed the transfer of that site to the LDA. It was Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the usual suspects, which supported it. We opposed that transfer because we had been campaigning for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 195: In page 40, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(4) The Agency may compulsorily purchase relevant private land suitable for public and affordable housing.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to hear the Minister's rationale for giving himself the power to exempt LDA developments from Part V.