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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he has planned with Heads of State over the next six months. [1551/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [1550/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I made the main points I wanted to make about the arts sector during Question Time with the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht this morning, I would like to put it to the Taoiseach that we need to urge the Abbey Theatre to engage with those who signed the letter we discussed this morning. It is quite a polarised and complicated debate. All of the different stakeholders...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the debate on the Solidarity-People Before Profit Anti-Evictions Bill 2018 just before Christmas, which the Government unfortunately opposed but which fortunately was passed by a majority in the Dáil, to address part of the reason for the current homelessness crisis, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, promised that there would be legislation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of these issues are complex and nuanced, but one issue that is beyond question is that people involved in co-productions from other theatre companies who work on the Abbey Theatre stage should be paid Abbey Theatre rates. There is a two-tier pay structure. The other point, which the theatre forum people made, is that the smaller theatre companies have been effectively dismantled over...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Theatre workers in Germany, artists, performers and dancers, have permanent jobs. They get six weeks holidays, sick pay and pension contributions. They have real jobs. Workers in the arts in this country have no rights or security.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I talked to people who signed the letter as well as to people who were asked to sign it and made the decision not to sign it. As we can see, there is quite a polarised debate on both sides of this question. To some extent, it is up to the theatre and arts community to sort this out themselves. There has to be a balance between making the national theatre a space for all the people, all the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the major difficulties in the theatre, film and arts sectors in terms of insecure employment income and career possibilities in view of the controversy in a theatre (details supplied) and a recently launched campaign by actors and performers with regard to precarious work and ongoing disputes...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a progress report on film industry stakeholder forum; the stakeholders the appointed chairperson of the forum has engaged with in advance of convening the forum since their appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1772/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Funding (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to address employment, income and career precarity and insecurity in theatre, film and across the arts sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1774/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to address perceived widespread income, employment and career insecurity for arts workers in theatre and film and elsewhere in the arts and cultural sector particularly in view of the recent letter by theatre practitioners regarding a theatre (details supplied) and ongoing disputes in relation to similar issues in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the recent controversy in a theatre (details supplied) following the recent letter signed by theatre practitioners regarding employment in the national theatre; her further views on whether the controversy more generally reflects widespread employment and income insecurity among theatre makers and arts workers...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Development (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure that future public funding for the film industry will be strictly conditional on the provision of quality employment and training, full compliance with employment legislation and participation in the film industry stakeholder forum proposed by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to follow on directly from that. I was talking to representatives of the INMO. To cut a long story short, they stated the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform had sanitised and gutted the HSE's submission. It was then put together as a joint submission to the Public Service Pay Commission. The HSE's submission to the Minister which is not the submission made to the pay...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seen the document from the INMO that shows substantial passages in which the HSE acknowledges the problem. I do not have time to quote them now. The Minister's answer is not accurate. The passages do not appear in the joint submission made to the Public Service Pay Commission.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would appear that part of the reason the Public Service Pay Commission did not acknowledge that there was a retention problem was because the submission from the HSE, which stated there was a retention problem, did not get to it. Essentially, key passages were gutted. In the joint submission from the employers, namely, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the HSE, all of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I hear. I hear that the Department influenced and sanitised the submission from the HSE. I have seen evidence showing that. Anyway, I have made my point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My second point is on the same issue. The Minister is misleading the public and being disingenuous by referring to a €300 million cost in respect of the nurses' pay demands. He is not acknowledging that there will be significantly increased tax as a result of that and the additional recruitment. He is not acknowledging the savings that will be made in the payment of agency nurses,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it probably would happen. I have some sympathy for the Minister when he gets criticised for spending too much only for the same people to demand he spend more, but he cannot level that charge at us.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We supported the VAT increase. We proposed measures like increasing employer's PRSI, financial transaction taxes and wealth taxes, which would have generated the necessary revenue. Is the IFAC not correct when it says that the Minister is not acknowledging the real costs that will be incurred and the expenditures that he will have to make? To plug the gap, he is using unsustainable...