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Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason we have a housing crisis is the Government, and the two major parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, believe that housing is a means to make money for certain people in society. The Irish rich have always got rich through property. The property owners who see property as a means to make money are disproportionately represented in this House and the Irish rich...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance if a progress report will be provided on his plans to ensure the requirement to provide quality employment and training as a condition for receiving section 481 tax relief will be met by the film producers receiving the relief and, in particular, his acknowledgement that compliance with this condition should require, as a minimum, compliance with the legal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, I have raised the issue of the connection between section 481 tax relief and rights for workers and trainees, and the condition attached to this relief to the effect that the film production companies to which it is given should provide quality employment and training. The Minister has stated, rightly in my opinion, in reply to previous questions that it should be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely welcome the progress and the engagement but I am keen that we make this watertight. One question I want to ask is whether sanctions will be applied. I have the details of one of the cases to which the Minister's attention has been drawn. It involves a ruling on four or five items of legislation. A complaint was made by a trainee assistant film director to the Workplace...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Construction is project to project but the law applies. The legislation relating to fixed-term work applies. Developers cannot dodge their obligations to employees on the basis that it is project to project. Animation is project to project but there is some security in it. It is also an audiovisual industry and companies are in receipt of section 481 but these problems do not arise. In...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking as a condition for approving section 481 film tax relief to ensure the application of all employment rights, legislation and in particular the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003. [7476/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a nurse returning home to work here should proceed to receive the relocation allowance; the length of time it takes to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7415/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the relocation allowance for a person (details supplied) is taking a long time to be received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7416/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason given by a person (details supplied) for the recent resignation from a position; if she will report on the work carried out by the person during the person's tenure in that position; and if she will provide correspondence, minutes and memos relating to the person's work on the film industry forum [7475/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman and I apologise in advance because I must leave to put a question to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, about some of these matters we are talking about here. I may have to run as soon as I see my number coming up. I listened to some of the presentation by Professor Doherty earlier on the monitor. My apologies I was not in the committee for it. I have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Were those figures broken down by sector as they went into-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be very grateful for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a slight problem with the issue of who the employer is and the obligations that employer has to the employee, and sectoral concerns. I am not saying it should not be a part of the mix, but I believe that it is in the interests of the public, especially where public money is used, that the public gets the maximum amount back for its investment, whether via film tax relief or public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would have assumed that if someone goes to a place of work, whether a film set or a construction site, and finds out that 60% of the people in that place of work are entrepreneurs, he or she would think that something was wrong. While it might be credible to have 10% or 20% of people in a particular workplace acting as entrepreneurs, it is not credible that 60% or 70% of them, as the case...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to briefly address my question on the social housing income threshold.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will it be done?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past year, I have repeatedly raised with the Taoiseach the income thresholds for social housing. The programme for Government makes extensive commitments on the provision of affordable housing to our citizens as an absolute priority. However, due to the failure to address the income thresholds, there has been a significant cull of people from council housing lists. Some of the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to review and extend A Programme for a Partnership Government. [6711/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children and Family Services Provision (13 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not doubt that the Minister has made efforts and I know she knows the value of this. However, in that context, I find it shocking that, although the Minister knows the service should not close, the service is going to close, almost certainly, in April, because €400,000 cannot be found. How many Supplementary Estimates have we had for health in current and capital spending?...