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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 114: In page 133, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "64.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on a levy on energy supply companies to offset the increased cost of heating and energy for households.".

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 115: In page 133, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "64.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the negative social impacts of gambling and how changes to taxation of gambling could be used to mitigate these impacts.".

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 116: In page 133, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “64.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the regressive nature of the current carbon tax system and to look at the options for a fair and progressive system of taxation that considers ability to pay and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister would have some questions to answer back.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: There have been several ambulance crashes in Cork in recent months. Deputy Sherlock gave one example of an ambulance that had been on a 600 km journey. The standard of driving in the service is high, so we must ask what factors are at play. Could it be the case that fatigue might have been a factor in the other cases? It is not at all unusual for there to be overruns in the schedule for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Rents went up 14.6% in Cork county from the end of September 2020 to the end of September 2021, according to Daft.ie. Huge parts of Cork county are not designated as rent pressure zones, nor are they covered by any of the Government's rent controls. How can the Taoiseach justify this? When is he going to extend rent controls to the county as a whole and, more than that, to the country as a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [55899/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Policing Reform (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [55898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he will support in terms of a Covid-19 bonus for workers; if he will support an annual extra bank holiday as part of such a bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55897/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I would like to let Deputy Farrell speak before me because she has to leave to speak in the Chamber.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: There was some very interesting breaking news this morning about corporation profits. The insurance industry reported that it had €163 million in operating profits last year, the highest figure in more than a decade. The report stated that you would have to go back to 2009 at least to see a higher figure. It could be even further than that. Last year, there was a 26% decline in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I would like a chance to reply to some of the points that the Minister made.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I will be brief. The Minister should listen and engage in debate rather than trying to twist arguments the way that he just had. Saying such things as "the country fared far better than the Deputy would have hoped" is schoolboy stuff. Let us have a proper debate about this. As for incomes being protected, the Minister is well aware that the original proposal from the Government about...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister is privatising family relations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: My question also relates to the landlord tax relief. I will be brief as the meeting is running late. The point was made, correctly, during the debates on the budget that there was the maintenance of tax relief for landlords, but no tax measures to assist renters. That says a great deal. On this particular tax relief for landlords, my understanding is that a landlord can claim tax relief...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 28: In page 24, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “Reports 22.The Minister shall within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the revenue raised by excluding developments from section 21 where the development is a facility consisting of one or more than one structure, the combined...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support measures to reduce rents given the crisis caused by rising rent costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54653/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on discussions he has had with those campaigning for full mica redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54654/21]