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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Chambers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the question of housing, do the witnesses accept that there is a big problem with gentrification? To put it even more dramatically, I could talk about the social cleansing of areas like the inner city, as well as some suburbs such as my area. This is because of the punitive and exorbitant cost of rent and home purchases and the lack of social housing delivery from the Government, leading...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank SPI for its presentation. Before I ask a number of questions, I wish to say I am very much in favour of the State providing support to film and all the other arts in the sector, and indeed I would welcome a very significant increase in the budgets for them. However, I am not, as I suspect the witnesses know, convinced that the way in which section 481 is structured achieves the ends...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said State support for the film industry.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not necessarily do so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, the point is that in the finance legislation, the tax relief is explicitly tied to the issue of quality employment and training, so it is relevant.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 2,150.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To clarify, I am in favour of more public investment in the arts and the film industry but not necessarily, and for the reasons I have indicated, section 481. Our guests say that the particular nature of the industry means companies of scale are actually much smaller. I put it to them that this is not the case with animation. An animation company can have a much bigger workforce that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not. The Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act cannot and does not apply if the employer is a designated activity company, DAC, which can only exist for the purposes of one project. As a result, is it not correct to state that almost nobody in the group in question who have contracts of indefinite duration or any kind of expectation of or right to employment from one project...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Screen Producers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What if that company does make other projects that require construction?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (19 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she plans to take to ensure greater income and employment security and full entitlement to employment rights in the arts, film and creative industries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37927/19]

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will start by paying tribute to the independent beef farmers and the Beef Plan Movement for their magnificent campaign over recent weeks and over the course of the summer. They have highlighted the absolutely intolerable and unacceptable levels of income which they are expected to endure despite producing a beef product of extremely high quality. I am shocked by these income levels....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ten of them are gone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sell the properties with the tenant.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning I brought three different groups of tenants into the Public Gallery before addressing a question to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Murphy. All three groups face evictions by ruthless vulture funds that have absolutely no concern for their welfare but seek to evict them in order to drive up the value of the property assets they have purchased....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said "attempted evictions".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rent increases of 4% per year on top of already unaffordable rents are not doing much to control rents. They are completely out of control and beyond the vast majority of workers' ability to pay. The failure of all the measures the Taoiseach cited to address the threat of vulture funds trying to evict people is very evident in the case of St. Helen's Court, Dún Laoghaire, as I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----secure those properties to prevent the eviction, change the loopholes in order that one cannot evict on the grounds of sale, close down the other loopholes and introduce a constitutional right to housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is how we will address these vulture funds treating tenants in this way.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Tenancies Board (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All three of these cases demonstrate that the Minister's legislation is riddled with loopholes for unscrupulous vulture funds, which lack any compassion or humanity. The Minister's laws make assumptions about landlords - and I am sure there are many individual landlords out there who care about their tenants and have a scintilla of compassion or humanity - but these three cases demonstrate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Tenancies Board (18 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The tax breaks the Government has given these people and the meetings that were held in 2013 with Deputy Noonan who invited them in have created the conditions in which these vultures are operating. I repeat that the measures mentioned by the Minister do not address the problems that are faced by these people. It is no good for the Minister to say he is independent of the RTB. The...