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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]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [38832/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal Heads of Government meeting in Salzburg on 19 and 20 September 2018. [38618/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [38619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Development (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to set up a new film industry forum that will bring together all stakeholders in the industry to meet and work together to address areas of concern in the industry and to develop mutually beneficial solutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39844/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to deal with reports of precarious working terms and conditions, lack of proper training structures and pensions across the film industry; her views on whether public funding and tax relief support of the industry should be strictly conditional on real improvements in these areas for the workers; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Harbours and Piers Funding (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funds will be provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the maintenance and development of Dún Laoghaire Harbour in line with her Department's priorities to support the heritage and cultural infrastructure of the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39841/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Sanctions (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will impress on the European Commission the importance of the immediate suspension of diamond exports from Israel and Zimbabwe until such time as those responsible for the killing of over 160 civilians in Gaza and seven civilians in Harare are brought to justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39381/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Sanctions (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call on the jewellery industry here to reject diamonds from Israel and Zimbabwe and the use of the bogus system of warranties promoted by an organisation (details supplied) which claims diamonds that are Kimberly process certified are conflict free in view of the fact they fund violence by government forces; and if he will make...