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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is part of the question. Our committee has looked at a lot of tax expenditures. We have generally suggested that they should be scrutinised as much as the budget day measures, ongoing expenditure measures, etc. What will the Minister do in terms of the presentation of information on tax expenditures for the budget material and budget day?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I do not mean that. I mean tax expenditures, such as tax credits and reliefs.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Union should hang its head in shame for its failure to sanction Israel in respect of the genocidal massacre it has been carrying out in Gaza for the past nine months. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil should hang their heads in shame for supporting as the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who has continued to provide Israel with impunity and allow the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should drop the fees for them as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [29522/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are a long way from where we need to be when it comes to supporting children with special needs and disabilities, to put it very mildly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we are in the last week of this Dáil session, just let me give the Taoiseach an instance of that. In April, Greg and his wife, Celine, and Greg is an SNA by the way, were in the Public Gallery here when we debated the issue of special needs. We raised the case of his son, Lewis, who is 13, who has autism and an intellectual disability, because he has no school place. Subsequent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is completely untenable and does not provide for the needs of this family. The parents are supposed to drive up and back to County Louth for a place that is not even suitable.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These parents have had to go to court to try to vindicate the rights of their children and still there are no placements for their children. We have to do better than this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Union makes clear its determination to stand against Putin's barbaric actions in Ukraine. I fundamentally disagree with the alliance that they wish to advance with NATO but we all are horrified about what Putin is doing. Then we look at what is happening today or in the last few days in Gaza. Four schools were attacked with 29 people killed in just one attack on a school. As...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his two-day attendance at the European Council on 27 and 28 June 2024. [28371/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the 41st summit meeting of the British-Irish Council in the Isle of Man that he attended. [28373/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same issue, the despised Tories have been driven out of power. The great fear that I and, I think, many people in England have is that, the more things change, the more things will stay exactly the same with Sir Keir Starmer. I find it grimly amusing that the leader of a supposedly left-wing party is referred to as Sir Keir Starmer. I suspect that indicates where his agenda will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Government said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the condemnation of the outrageous treatment of the events that occurred for Tori Towey and call on the UAE Government to immediately drop the charges and allow her to come home. This is the last week the Dáil is sitting before the summer recess and the last opportunity I will have to ask a question during Leaders' Questions. For six weeks now, we and many others...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----is a fraction of what the Housing Commission stated is necessary to address it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer the question. Is there more house building? Yes. Is there a bit more social housing? Yes. However, the Housing Commission has said we need to double the Government's targets. I know damn well that the LDA and the HFA are not included in the €5 billion figure, but that total figure was meant to deliver 33,000 houses, including approximately 16,000 social...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but it is right about the level of housing delivery. Why will the Government not allocate the money? It cannot say it does not have the money. It has it in the budget surplus and the infrastructure funds-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and it could impose a wealth tax, like the one the French people are asking for-----