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- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the input his Department has had to the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7473/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the national development plan contains targets and projects for retrofitting homes; if his Department had an input into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7474/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was asked about Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are still 36 seconds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach about Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or Washington. The Taoiseach was asked about Washington. What does he have to say?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much every week that goes by, the US President, Donald Trump, provides us with further evidence of the threat he represents to the world, peace, the environment and whole swathes of the world's population. I assume the Taoiseach will meet Donald Trump on St. Patrick's Day in the White House. I would prefer if he did not and made it clear why he should not but I wonder whether he has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The guy is mad and has mad people in his Government-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the madness is threatening peace in the Middle East and the global environment. How is the Taoiseach going to make a statement against these sort of crazy policies?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his planned meetings with foreign Heads of State over the next two months. [5692/18]
- 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...