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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to alert Mr. Cody to this. I am not sure we know what happens to those revenues. I am not sure where the intellectual property ends up. Does it go back to the parent company or not? If it is taxable, I do not know whether Revenue looks at particular sectors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much paid tax, as opposed to credits given, has the film industry ever generated? I suspect it is almost nothing. Irish Equity suggested that the whole thing is designed to make sure it does not make a profit. However, some of these films actually are successful and are generating revenue for somebody. Where is this revenue going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. Companies in one incarnation may say there is no relationship between all these DACs even though they set them all up. However, in another moment they may say there is a relationship and can play off losses against possible gains, and end up happily and conveniently from their point of view never paying any tax. Just as we have had to look at other interesting tax approaches, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Cody said Revenue has collected €23.8 billion in corporation tax for 2023. I know there is a delay in getting all the figures in. Given that we have collected €23.8 billion, what is the figure for pre-tax gross trading profits projected for that year? That figure is not given. I know it is given later. When I look at the Revenue's CT tables, there seems to be a delay of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is in the report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have a look. Okay, great. I thank Mr. Cody.

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for brining forward this important motion. I welcome Justice for the Forgotten and the families of those who were murdered 50 years ago this month in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and the survivors. I also welcome Fergus Dowd, who is the producer of the film that was mentioned earlier and which premiered last Friday. “May-17-74: The Anatomy of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ursula von der Leyen embodies the shocking and blatant double standards that have been displayed by the European Union. On the one hand, she is the most gung ho for arming, supporting, or whatever is necessary in terms of Ukraine being faced with a brutal and illegal invasion. She then stands beside Netanyahu as he embarks on what we can now see is a genocidal murderous massacre against the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings with the Spanish Prime Minister. [21325/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should long ago have recognised the state of Palestine but the question is this. What state is the Taoiseach recognising? Is he simultaneously legitimising the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine when he speaks of a two-state solution? I find it ironic that people who are for a united Ireland, who call themselves republicans, who would never dream of endorsing a two-state solution...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent special meeting of the European Council. [20459/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am struck by the extraordinary double standards that the European Union displays and the Taoiseach seems to go along with when we look at the contrast between the way in which the Ukrainian situation is presented and the way in which the Palestinian situation is presented. It may just be a symbolic thing but tomorrow is Nakba, the anniversary of the catastrophe, as it is known to the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been promised for weeks. Can we have it soon?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach boasted earlier about the increased construction of housing under his Government. What he is not acknowledging is that the majority of what is being delivered is completely unaffordable. We get 10% social housing on private developments. The rest is unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices and the result is record homelessness, particularly egregiously for families...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to extend the end of life for taxi saloon cars to 13 years, as has been done with 2014 cabs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21357/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to improve the protection of students' and postgraduate researchers' right and freedom to protest in a peaceful manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to condemn Trinity College Dublin's threats of disciplinary hearings, fines and expulsion to individual members of the democratically elected TCD Students' Union and Postgraduate Workers' Organisation, and a €214,000 fine issued to the TCD Students' Union, in response to peaceful student protests; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the future measures that will be taken to protect individuals within a students' or researchers' union from being singled out or targeted by senior staff with disciplinary threats in response to action taken by the union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/24]

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit requested this debate at a meeting of the Business Committee. We are glad it is happening. We requested it because, like everybody else, we are being inundated by families who are concerned for the welfare of their children. It is clear that the State - the Government - is failing children with additional needs and disabilities. That is an unacceptable moral failure...