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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was the one who asked our committee to do that report. I know quite a lot about it, with respect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pretty familiar with this issue because I have been bringing it up for about four years. The problem is, nothing ever really changes. I am interested to see this legislation and whether it will make any difference. Could the Minister of State please tell us when that legislation is actually coming up? To repeat, there is an easier way to do this and it is for the Government to crack...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers who are not on the sub-minimum rates - older workers - lose out because employers depend on people who they are paying the lower rates. It is actually the older workers who lose out in some of those industries in terms of what they are paid because of disproportionate dependence on people who are on sub-minimum rates. I take the point that in many cases there is a very low...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For somebody who is 18 or 19 to be doing the same job somebody who is 20, 21 or 22, working beside each other, is wrong. It is discrimination and it is exploitation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister and Ministers of State know, People Before Profit tabled a Bill seeking to get rid of the sub-minimum wage which proceeded to Committee Stage. It is absolutely disgraceful discrimination against young workers to pay them less than the minimum wage, which is miserable in and of itself at €12.70. That is far below what a living wage should be. The ESRI, among others,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is complicated if the Government wants to make it complicated, but it is simple if one opposes discrimination against young people. It is simply wrong that young people should be exploited because they are young, and paid less for doing the same job as somebody else who happens to be older. It is a simple principle and that discrimination should be removed. The real issue, which the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is intending any further legislative changes or measures to address the problem of employment insecurity and lack of service recognition for workers in the gig economy or in sectors characterised by project-to-project work, such as the film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30468/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A copy was not sent around until 5.32 p.m.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ministers and their teams for their contributions. I want to follow on from some of the questions I asked yesterday evening about the housing element of all of this. The statement says that €4.2 billion is to be allocated to the Department of housing, €2.5 billion of which is specifically for the housing capital allocation. Last year - I am just reading the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. That is pretty worrying but I suppose it is a frank admission. This is why, it seems to me, that we are not discussing the Housing Commission report because the Government has no intention of acting on it in budget 2025. Essentially, that is what the Minister is really telling us.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay but-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that you cannot necessarily do everything overnight but also, it is clearly set out by the commission that there needs to be a dramatic increase, and it starts that increase from the coming year - 61,000, if you include student accommodation, is what it is setting out. If you add in student accommodation, it has it at 61,000, and that is up from 33,000. That is almost, in units per...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When do we start?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, although I could mention water infrastructure and so on. Direct capital allocation is slightly reduced and the Minister has not refuted that point. It seems, on foot of what the Minister is saying, that the only increase the Department of housing is getting relates to the housing assistance payment, HAP. That is probably what it is. The Minister is factoring in that there will be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Am I out of time?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hardly, but-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is saying that capital investment has increased over the past while. That is true; it has. However, based on the allocation for housing capital specifically, what the Minister has read out is less than what was provided last year. Is the Minister disputing that fact? I take his point that money is going elsewhere in the Department of housing. There will be some increases...