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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To refer to commercial considerations when we are discussing this piece of our national heritage is not good enough. Some things are too important to simply allow the highest bidder to come along and take them. As has been mentioned, "private property" signs are appearing on the road with views over Luggala. That is a very ominous sign of what could come down the line if the State does not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would appreciate it if we could keep it tight because I have another question after this one.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 18 September 2018, if her Department has considered buying the 4,500 acres of the estate that do not include the house in view of the good value price her Department paid for a similar piece of land at Glenasmole in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39845/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is well aware that there is a huge campaign and great public concern about the Luggala estate in the Wicklow mountains, a unique piece of our cultural heritage which is up for sale. Under its previous owners, the de Brún family, public access to Lough Dan and the surrounding area was guaranteed. With its sale, there are real fears that any new owner could cut off access to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need more of an assurance than that. There are big petitions ongoing and the matter has been raised a number of times in the House. It would be completely unacceptable if the area was to be fenced off as private property and become inaccessible. There would be uproar. Any restriction of access to the vista at Lough Dan would be totally unacceptable. We need an assurance that the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except for film workers.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When is the film industry forum as recommended going to happen to bring all stakeholders into a room to sort out the problems? We need to consider matters such as Mel Gibson suing a company that has produced a film, stating that the producers benefiting from section 481 tax relief are defrauding that tax relief by artificially inflating costs and expenses and milking the taxpayer. That is a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a very serious issue.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister to meet these workers. She is obviously meeting Screen Ireland. Will she meet these workers, who have asked to meet her, to hear their side of the story? It is a direct question and I wish she would answer it. Unless she gets all the stakeholders involved in this discussion, she is not being serious about trying to address the problems. The Mel Gibson action...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the manner in which she plans to respond to the report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on working conditions in the Irish film industry, which was published in July 2018, in particular the issues (details supplied) in the report raised by workers in the industry; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Josepha Madigan, said that section 481 film industry tax relief is key to underpinning a film industry. Yesterday morning, I was with film workers outside Ardmore Studios where they were protesting. They say there is no industry. There is an awful lot of money going into the hands of ten or 12 companies who employ next to nobody....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's speech to Pope Francis he talked about a new chapter in the relationship between Ireland and the Catholic Church. The repeal referendum and, perhaps, the visit itself, given that the numbers going to see the Pope were far lower than expected, clearly indicate, as the Taoiseach mentioned, that the relationship the majority of people in this country want is a separation of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not €50 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I referred to net worth - "high-net-worth individuals".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis. [38620/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A (economy) will next meet. [37539/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach scratches around for additional money for things like housing which we need desperately, health and education services and water infrastructure, has he taken note of the significance of the Comptroller and Auditor General's recent report which confirms something those of us on the left have been saying for years? Now it comes from a source that the Taoiseach cannot dismiss...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a scandal. Is the Taoiseach going to look at it and examine the loopholes to ensure the rich and corporations will pay their fair share of tax?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. Has the Taoiseach had any discussions with his European counterparts about the passing of the nation-state law in Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu? On top of the long list of apartheid and racist measures directed against the Arab and Palestinian population, the nation-state law is an explicitly racist and apartheid law which flies in the face of international law and the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for a new programme for Government. [37537/18]