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Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 92, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "Report on minimum effective corporate tax rate 34.Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on establishing a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 12.5 per cent.". When people go to the Revenue website to look at corporate tax reliefs they get a table in a...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I seriously challenge anybody to read the figures in this table. This is with regard to access to important information. This is public money that is every bit as real as money that is announced in every budget to great fanfare, much public attention and scrutinised heavily with regard to the amount spent directly on health or education and allocated to various Departments. Depending on...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will press it.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The vast majority of the increase in household wealth is in the value of property assets, as the Minister of State has acknowledged. Financial assets are significant at €374 billion but there is €534 billion in housing assets. The Minister of State argues that if we impose a wealth tax, these people might move out of the country and take their assets with them. They could not...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes we are so focused on individual measures we do not take the time to step back and look at the big picture in terms of the economy, the amount of wealth that exists in the economy, who gets the benefit of that wealth, how it is distributed, and whether it is distributed fairly. The only opportunity to do that is during the Finance Bill, which is why I have tabled a series of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I informed the Business Committee a few days ago, grassroots housing activists are planning a housing demonstration on 5 December and have requested that Deputies, rather than attending the demonstration, have a debate in the House on solutions to the housing crisis. I hope that debate will be arranged. There are many reasons that people wish to protest, including the welfare of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department's guidelines for the acquisition of dwellings suggest shocking upper limit figures of €400,000, €500,000 and €700,000 for social housing units.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are those the prices the public will pay for housing from private developers on land that was given to those developers by the State?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am opposed to both of those developments.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much will people pay for social housing units?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much will people pay?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12 o’clock It is inhumane to have children living in hostels or hotels, where their mothers or fathers cannot cook dinner for them, for years on end. It is inhumane for asylum seekers and people in family emergency homeless hubs. "Inhumane" is not an unreasonable word to use in this regard. A more important term again is "totally unnecessary". I hope the Minister of State will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend the right to work to all asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47834/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers who would be eligible to work under the programme available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47833/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Until May 2017, the Government operated a complete ban on the right of asylum seekers to look for employment and contribute to our society. That ban was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2017. The limited right to work the Government introduced as a result of the Supreme Court case has left the vast majority of asylum seekers either without the right to employment or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This does not make sense. We have labour shortages in a large number of areas, from the health service to special needs education, childcare and construction. I could go through a list. Despite this, thousands of people who are forced to live in fairly inhumane conditions in direct provision centres, many of them in isolated areas, want to work but cannot do so. This does not make sense...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 13: In page 32, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Report on wealth and higher incomes taxes 26. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on establishing a wealth tax and increased taxes on high income earners with view to achieving a more equitable distribution of wealth and income.". Something most people...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: In page 15, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “Report on key employee engagement programme 11. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the implementation of the key employee engagement programme.”. I have very little to say on this amendment other than that it has not been a particularly...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will withdraw it.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point has been made and the Minister knows we disagree. There are many talented people who have left or who are leaving this country. We need those people in our construction sector, public services and a number of other areas where there are quite serious labour shortages. The reason many people do not return to Ireland is due to the fact that the cost of accommodation or that wages...