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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.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this a new Standing Order protocol, namely the point of frustration?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should not have a tragic case.

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Referral to Select Committee (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: War is peace.

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Referral to Select Committee (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: George Orwell, in his fantastic work 1984, described a dystopian future where the world is divided into three big geopolitical military blocs in a state of permanent warfare, but that reality was glossed over by ideological doublespeak from the rulers of those blocs whose motto was "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength". That is precisely what we are getting from the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been saying for some time that my concern is that if there is no deal Europe will insist, in order to protect the Single Market, that there should effectively be a border with customs checks and so on, North and South, and the conversation between the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, and the Tánaiste rings alarm bells in that regard. We hope there will be...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then what?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversations with Prime Minister May. [1385/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss what is going on in Sudan in any of his meetings? A popular revolution is happening against the al-Bashir Government in Sudan, triggered by a brutal, murderous response by the al-Bashir regime to protests over bread price increases. There have been mass arrests of students, schools and universities have been closed down, and 24 people have been killed, yet the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Mali and Ethiopia. [1383/19]