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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was reported in the past week or two, and perhaps earlier, that a company set up by Goldman Sachs - it is a crowd called Tramore Funding DAC, a special purpose vehicle that is just two years old and is due to disappear shortly - and which had purchased loan portfolios off banks generated €153 million in tax-free profits from its backers but, through "complex accounting procedures",...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the eligibility criteria for the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, in order that it can be accessed by sole traders and small businesses such as taxi drivers, artists, musicians and live entertainment workers that do not have public facing premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39234/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has excluded sole traders and small businesses like taxi drivers, artists, musicians and live entertainment workers who do not have public-facing premises from accessing the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39231/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will audit the recipients of the wage subsidy scheme to ensure that it is not being abused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39235/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a film production company in receipt of section 481 tax relief claiming in the Labour Court or Workplace Relations Commission that it is not the employer of the film crew working on a film production funded by section 481 relief represents a breach of the declaration that company is required to sign in order to access the relief and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken to ensure that film production companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief are complying with the declaration on quality employment and training they are required to sign in order to access the relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance if the €25,000 limit that credit unions are being required to impose on deposits will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39501/20]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is seriously disingenuous.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be asking questions in the first ten minutes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has spent well over a week trying to shield the Minister for Justice from questioning over the process of selection of Mr. Justice Séamus Woulfe to the Supreme Court. As a result of the collective insistence of the Opposition that the Minister come into the House to face questions and be accountable to the Dáil, the Government was forced to put forward a proposal....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Companies could also share the technology.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps I can kill two birds with one stone by getting an answer to my previous question. In the context of the shared island initiative, a shared vaccine programme would be an immediate way of giving us common cause, North and South, to deal with the pandemic and get us out of the cycle of lockdowns. The Taoiseach should take that idea very seriously. As I said earlier - I would like to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I congratulate the American people on sacking Donald Trump. It is very gratifying to see his increasingly desperate and farcical attempts to deny reality. It reminds me a little bit of Chemical Ali trying to claim that Saddam Hussein was still in charge when the walls were shaking around him. It is amusing but people hope it will bring real change, not least given the absolutely disastrous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is thanks to large orders that have come in from the United States.

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wanted to hear the end of the answer to my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone call with the President-elect of the United States of America. [38634/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seeing as how, as the Taoiseach suggested in a previous answer, the Government is not busy with any particular legislation at the moment, and given that he is responsible for co-ordinating the response to Covid, may I suggest something for his Department to do? There are many aspects to this, but one that is staring us in the face, is growing more evident every day and will be the key to any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. [38633/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not expecting to be called, but it is fine.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of online content moderators needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. It might be of interest for the Taoiseach to know - and I will ask him a little more about this later - that in the United States, online content moderators did not go into work at all between March and October because of Government restrictions there. Here, they have been working in large workplaces for...