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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not criticising. I was just asking if we looked into his record. It is in the public domain that he was involved with a project in Poland with big overruns. I read that in the newspapers after googling him. It was The Irish Times, the paper of record.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent telephone call with Chancellor Merkel. [1384/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The comments by Mr. Margaritis Schinas of the European Commission to the effect that Ireland will see a new hard border if Britain fails to approve the Brexit withdrawal agreement are extremely alarming and may suggest that the mask of EU solidarity with Ireland over preventing a hard border on this island is slipping a little. Equally worrying is the fact that the Minister for Foreign...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for closing two schools in County Cavan in favour of opening one larger school creating a longer commute for residents; if public consultation was carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2354/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the location in which persons who grew up in mother and baby homes can access the counselling services made available by his Department. [2360/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 582. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a women’s refuge (details supplied) in Dublin 6 has reopened as a women’s refuge; if not, the reason therefore; the reason the refuge centre is no longer accepting donations of clothes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2378/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the resources available to a family in homeless services that is in receipt of social welfare payments and have to drive their children to school each day (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2343/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the application by an organisation (details supplied) for a change of use of public spaces in an area in order to provide additional social housing units; the details of the proposed rental scheme that will be offered to new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2465/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I might pick up on that point first because I have read the analysis. The Deputy rightly posed significant questions about the film relief and put the caveat that while the section 481 relief should be extended for certainty in the industry, it needs to be monitored and scrutinised. It should be monitored and scrutinised closely. He alluded to the need for that to happen. Mention was...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but I ask how we are monitoring that stuff and who is monitoring it exactly. There are a number of different groups involved in this in terms of the application of law, including Revenue, the Department of Finance and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Arguably, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has a role too. I will finish my question on...

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?