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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The left supported the Government in the VAT increase.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We proposed the stamp duty on commercial property in our budget submission. Whether that is where the Minister got it from I do not know but we proposed it the year before he introduced it. The idea that we are not willing to make, or side with the Government in making, radical proposals in this area is unfair. I am just pointing out to the Minister that there is no good evidence for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the housing issue, does the Minister recognise that the lack of affordable housing is a macroeconomic problem affecting our ability to bring migrants back, stop the outward flow of people we need in a number of sectors, and foreign direct investment? If so, how will that challenge be addressed? We had a discussion earlier about Rebuilding Ireland. We can debate the balance relating to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent conversations with the Prime Minister of New Zealand. [17790/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversations with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May. [16746/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May. [17789/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in preparing for a hard Brexit. [16401/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Review (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on the local property tax review process undertaken by his Department; the reason for the deferral of changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17791/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if film producers who apply for and receive section 481 tax relief are responsible to ensure that the requirement to provide quality employment and training is met and have legal responsibility for employees and trainees on film productions funded by section 481 and that those legal responsibilities carry over from production to production in cases in which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the penalties which will be imposed on film producers in receipt of section 481 tax relief that are found to have breached the legal rights of workers; if these will include withdrawal of the tax relief and other public funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16759/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (17 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies paying a top-up to the HAP payment out of all HAP and homeless HAP payments; the value of those top-ups; and the number of these tenants paying a top-up in receipt of a social welfare payment by local authority area. [17956/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not accept that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Taoiseach stated he did not know how much the biggest infrastructural project to be undertaken in the State in a very long time, which the Government committed to deliver, will cost. It is €3 billion and rising but he is not actually sure how much it will cost. We do not know when the plan will be decided, how it will be delivered or by whom it will be delivered. It is an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is unacceptable that a US investment fund should have the State over a barrel because of the fiasco of the process. We should draw a line under it, learn the lessons and start talking to the ESB or renationalise what is left of Eircom. The idea that a US investment fund would charge €3 billion and then own the network is just beyond appalling. This is an absolutely predictable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my question, which was simple and specific. Does he believe it is immoral that a person who receives a cancer diagnosis would get a different level of treatment and access to potentially life-saving drugs depending on whether or not he or she can afford particular private health insurance plans? I believe this is medical apartheid. It is as simple as that....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are clinically approved.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a simple question. Does the Taoiseach think it immoral that somebody who receives the devastating diagnosis of cancer but who happens to be a public patient who does not have or cannot afford extortionate levels of private health insurance, may have a less chance of surviving cancer because he or she may not be prescribed drugs that others who have private health insurance would get...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The list of threats that Donald Trump poses to the world is too long to go through, but I will ask about two. Trump's sabotage of the Paris climate change agreement is an open declaration that he does not care about the existential threat to humanity and life on the planet that is facing our children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the school students' climate change strike and their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He will be waiting a long time for that with Jared Kushner.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, who is sitting alongside the Taoiseach, has made several very welcome commitments to deal with the issues of bogus self-employment and the failure of employers to vindicate employment rights. Approximately five minutes' walk from Leinster House, there is a public contract job to refurbish the Irish Stock...