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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is based on a narrow definition.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have spoken out repeatedly on behalf of taxi drivers since the Covid pandemic began and their industry was decimated. Before I ask my specific questions, the Taoiseach should understand just what a fantastic service the 26,000 taxi drivers provide. The National Transport Authority, NTA, reported today that of 40 million taxi journeys last year, there were just under 1,000 complaints....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [36673/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Taoiseach his role in defining the different measures, restrictions and guidelines in terms of the 5 levels of Covid-19 restrictions. [37229/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that councils that are not able to meet the deadline for home acquisition and renovation by the end of 2020 have the deadline extended due to the delays in the programme due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37316/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to delays in newborns being registered and subsequently receiving their PPS number which is causing problems or delays in newborns receiving general practitioner care, vaccinations and other health checks essential for babies to receive proper and timely treatment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current methods of registration of births; if there have been changes to the methods for registration under Covid-19 restrictions; if there are delays in registration of births currently; if so, the average length of the delay; if this is causing delays in newborns being given a PPS number; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commission on Pensions (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if organisations (details supplied) will be allowed to be represented on the Pensions Commission for which she is responsible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37289/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made the point yesterday that the research and development tax credit involves such a substantial amount of public expenditure that an analysis of the benefit to society is required. Perhaps the Minister can give us the latest figures on what is projected for this year in terms of this tax credit but my understanding is that it is approximately €700 million and that has been rising...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will briefly give another example of public bodies on which this money would be better spent. In the recent budget I was quite flabbergasted by the Estimate for health expenditure. As we know, the Estimate was significantly increased in the context of Covid-19 and rightly so but in the area of health research in the HSE, there was no increase this year at all. I was absolutely amazed by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 171: In page 66, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “PART 6 REPORTS Report on Knowledge Development Box and other research and development tax reliefs 55.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on the Knowledge Development Box and other research and development tax reliefs and provide a cost-benefit...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister tell us the latest available figure for intra-group transactions? I have raised the issue of intra-group transactions as a very significant example of these huge giveaways to multinationals using labyrinthine structures of subsidiaries to avoid tax. Up until recently, the Revenue tables showing the tax reliefs and allowances that are available contained a heading labelled...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful if the Minister could come back with the figures. This is an enormous and growing category of allowances - or loopholes, in my language - which big multinationals with multiple subsidiaries are exploiting in order to avoid tax. I understand that he does not have the information now, but I would also appreciate if the Minister could confirm whether there has been a change...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was on CPL.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach come back to me on that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [36672/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I got a letter yesterday from the HSE's health business services, HBS, in response to a parliamentary question. It is the interestingly named business division of the HSE, which seems like a contradiction in terms. Why do we need a business section of the health service? This was a response to a question about the contract that was awarded to CPL for recruitment in the context of Covid-19....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach talked about his previous incarnations in government in terms of the survivors of industrial schools and the things he did. One of the scandalous things done under a Fianna Fáil Government was the decision to limit the liability of the religious congregations responsible for the abuse of those who went through the industrial schools and such institutions to €128...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with church leaders. [35422/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the data protection unit in his Department. [35169/20]