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Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government states the Government will listen to ideas from others about how to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis. When it introduced legislation on rent certainty we told the Government the measures would not control rents. We stated it would be necessary to set rents at affordable levels and introduced legislation to achieve this objective, which the...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They could not be any worse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Irish Film Workers Association and the GMB for further educating me about the nature of the industry. For many people, it is an industry that is about the glamorous stuff. It is a very important step forward that the people behind the scenes, who do critical work but are rarely seen, get a chance to speak up about their situation. The picture they paint, as I said at the last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What Mr. Arkins is saying is quite technical but, to summarise it in language we can understand, according to Mr. Arkins, specifying hours of between 55 and 66 hours as normal working time directly breaches the working time legislation. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Arkins but I will run out of time if I do not do so. I want to touch on a few other things. In very simple terms, he says this agreement breaches the law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a very serious matter into which this committee has a responsibility to look. The issue of bogus self-employment and people being employed as contractors rather than direct PAYE employees is widespread in the construction industry as well. Is it the case - it is certainly the case in the construction industry - that if people in the film industry ask for PAYE employment, they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Again, it is something for the committee to bear in mind. Perhaps Mr. Arkins or Ms Walker or some of the others would know about this practice in the construction industry. One of the ways in which those of us in the Opposition have been raising bogus self-employment, and quite a few of us have been doing so, is to ensure that Revenue is checking whether people meet the criteria,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is up. Can we have a second round of questioning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a couple of issues that have been alluded to. It is probably important to spell them out here. How many people are actually employed in the industry? Is ask this in light of the tax arrangements relating to the industry and the more than €70 million in grants from which it benefits? Either Screen Producers Ireland or the Irish Film Board, I cannot remember which, referred...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is my last question. Obviously, the issue of the law applying to the witnesses is a no-brainer. Our responsibility is to make sure that happens, and any money that comes from the State should be conditional, at a minimum, on the application of the law where workers' entitlements are concerned. That is critical. At the level of oversight of the industry, and worker participation in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the communications he has had with Coillte in view of the reported problems with the forestry partnership project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7008/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alternative Farm Enterprises (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the possible development of hemp cultivation as a significant agricultural activity should be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7007/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (13 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the self-build aspect of the home loan scheme; the way in which the value of the property at completion will be ascertained; if there will be a limit to the number of applicants to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6716/18]

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Plans are well under way for a national demonstration on 7 April on the housing and homelessness crisis and the shambles of this and the previous Government's policies that created the crisis. Groups such as the Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland, Simon Community, housing and community groups, trade unions and many of the Opposition political parties are mobilising for that protest and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid the Tánaiste is the one who is driven by blind ideology. In the past couple of weeks, I had to deal with somebody who has been on the housing list for 19 years and who has just been evicted from a HAP tenancy, which is supposed to be one of the Tánaiste's housing solutions. She will now be driven back into another HAP, which is insecure. The Tánaiste is...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: HAP does not work. The approved housing bodies, AHB, and off-balance sheet plan is now in serious trouble. When will the Tánaiste get it?

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to return to something the State did for decades, building council houses.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer the question about the AHBs.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fifteen thousand.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (8 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties of those in need of home care packages; if his attention has further been drawn to the difficulties many have in sourcing these packages and that many of the packages granted are for less hours than would be appropriate to the need; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact this shortfall in hours...