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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is directly related to the relief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And RTÉ.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a brief supplementary on those. What Ms Donaghy says is important and confirms some of the things I have asked, as have others, on this. Submissions were made to the arts committee at the beginning of last year where the people in receipt of the relief and who are the main beneficiaries and promoters of continuing it gave evidence to the effect that there were 17,000 jobs. We...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, but it is a serious matter for us as a scrutiny committee and for the Department.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I definitely want to come back in. One issue I asked the PBO officials earlier, which is more general, was about the fact the estimate for tax expenditure was €5 billion. Even under the corporate tax tables produced by Mr. Seamus Coffey - I think they are taken from Revenue - the allowances and deductions for 2015 are multiples of that. In 2015, there was €66 billion of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My notes are scrawled all over it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that this list?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a disjunction between the way Ms Donaghy's description and the Revenue document, to which I referred, which lists all these various reliefs, expenditures and credits. We all need to sing from the same hymn sheet. If different people are defining items in different ways, it is hard to get a grip on it. I should have said initially that I commend the witnesses on doing all this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it be fair to say that under those headings one can have items that might have been considered okay as benchmark items but suddenly they are not considered okay because somebody is doing something under that particular heading? Most notably, I point to intangible assets where suddenly they were purchased by one part of a multinational by another part of its operations and then there...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regarding a general comment Mr. Cullen made, if I understood him correctly, did he go as far as to say he prefers or that it is easier and more transparent to have direct expenditures rather than tax expenditures, or that at least we need to compare rigorously one versus the other to establish that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the tax relief on research and development an example of that? It benefits a small number of large multinational corporations which are making enough money. The comparison would be to ask what would happen if there was not this review and instead we gave the amount to the universities. Is that the type of scenario to which Mr. Cullen is referring?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To return to the issue of film relief, who exactly is policing compliance with the conditions in section 481 relief in terms of quality employment and training? Given the various issues that have arisen and the analysis and information the Department has gathered, is it a fair comment that the witnesses have concerns about this relief and what it is or is not producing in terms of those...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why I said that but it seems the analysis is indicating that. Is it now the disposition of the Department that there are big questions in this respect that need to be seriously examined and that there are not even clear criteria as to what is quality employment and training and that needs to be examined? Are the figures we are getting from the beneficiaries of this relief accurate?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who decides the consequences?

Ráitis ó Cheannairí na bPáirtithe agus na nGrúpaí - Statements from Party and Group Leaders (21 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the radical demands of the democratic programme remind us, the Irish revolution was not just a guerrilla struggle of a minority to change the colour of the flag, it was a massive social upheaval of men, women, working people, the poor and the downtrodden to demand an end to deprivation and poverty to secure the right to housing for children, to share out the wealth of the nation in a fair...

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ministers are not supposed to smile at that.

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is with a sort of grim fascination that we look on at the mess, the shambles and the manoeuvring that is going on in Westminster. It is with utter horror that we look at some of the characters in this drama, most notably, obviously, the Tory right, and the manner in which Theresa May has to deal with these rather obnoxious forces on the Tory right or, for that matter, in the DUP....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frustration.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the Leaders would be in trouble then.