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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not intend to, and will not, disrupt the order of the Dáil. We had a long discussion yesterday and, as you know, proceedings are ongoing about that. There will be more discussion about the issue of money messages. However, I want to get some clarity on precisely what happened to the arrangements for today. The communications that we got leave very big questions in my mind as to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one last question. Given that we only received the correspondence at 9 p.m. on Monday, was it your expectation that we could then in that short period submit another motion for the slot, notwithstanding debate about the motion? I just want clarity about how all that unfolded.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not going to discuss the substantial issue or ask you----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to clarify one point. The vote that we took yesterday still included a slot for Solidarity-People Before Profit, did it not? That slot remained in the arrangements for today this morning.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because the business we submitted was disallowed.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Somebody else's motion.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not our motion.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State may have heard on the radio this morning the really shocking news that the St. Joseph's dementia care facility in Shankill has sent letters to the families of those people with dementia in the facility stating the belief that it may have to close very soon, possibly by the end of the year. This is the biggest and, arguably, the best dementia care facility in the country...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or met the First Minister of Scotland recently. [45494/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to realise that we are in a bad situation. It is against a background where this country's international reputation rests to a large extent on the reputation of our artists, musicians, writers, actors, theatre producers and so on. Despite this, we spend a miserable 0.1% of GDP, the lowest in Europe, on the arts. The Minister provided a miserable €5 million increase in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Four years after the Taoiseach made his commitment, funding for the arts has increased by 15% or 16% but it still stands at 0.1% of GDP. We are nowhere near being on a trajectory to double arts funding. In People Before Profit's budget submission for the past three or four years, we proposed doubling the arts budget, which would have enormous benefits for this country economically and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she is planning to take to combat employment and income insecurity across the arts sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45502/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this year, the Theatre Forum outlined the widespread poverty and lack of income and employment security among artists and people working in the arts. Prior to the budget, the National Campaign for the Arts pleaded with the Minister to honour the Taoiseach's commitment to double arts spending, which has merely crept upwards. The most recent budget saw a very marginal increase in arts...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will examine the case of a crèche (details supplied) and extend the deadline for displacement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45774/19]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we discussing section 74?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Pearse Doherty on bringing this up. He has made all the relevant points. I have raised this point a number of times. Could the Minister tell us the tax expenditure for intra-group transactions in the latest available figures? It has increased dramatically in recent years. Revenue provides a table on expenditures, credits and reliefs for corporate tax. I do not have the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister have that figure?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That cannot be true.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 121: In page 120, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “Report on second home tax and landlord’s tax 74. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on abolishing the local property tax for family homes and establishing, instead a second home tax and a landlord’s tax that would be imposed on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could simply engineer a provision to raise the same money. I will withdraw my amendment but reintroduce it on Report Stage.