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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.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment No. 120 was ruled out of order but I am sure it was an entirely legitimate decision by the Chairman.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to resubmit my amendment but I want to put the issue on the record for the committee so that it can be raised on Report Stage. I call on the Minister to look again at the section 481 film tax relief. We have discussed the relief at length and I acknowledge that he has been very positive in his engagement and response to some of the points that I raised. Indeed, new guidelines...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Chairman knows, I am speaking to the section.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure that the Minister will agree that the arts are very important.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will make another point on why I think this matter is in the interest of the Minister, and not just from the point of view of the employees. This issue is important for workers. They have the right to accumulate rights as workers. They have the right, after spending a decade or two in an industry, not to be completely insecure as to their prospects of future employment. They are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought we had a second round of supplementary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We usually do.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rules do not seem to be working very well for some of us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes which will be delivered in 2020; when the income eligibility criteria for such homes will be defined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45220/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The income thresholds for affordable housing must be established clearly. Certainly, what the Minister has said to date indicates that there are huge numbers of people we cannot identify or say how they will access affordable housing. The Minister promised a review of the income thresholds for social housing. When will that review take place?