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Report on the Arts: Motion (7 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...It gives an indication of one particular sector. I have made the point again and again that the Government needs to take quality employment seriously. I have argued that film funding, which amounts to €80 million per year, and more if Screen Ireland is added in terms of tax relief, be conditional on giving real rights to workers in the film industry. I will quote to the House...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (6 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of our artists, musicians, writers, actors, theatre producers and so on. Despite this, we spend a miserable 0.1% of GDP, the lowest in Europe, on the arts. The Minister provided a miserable €5 million increase in the arts budget recently. The consequence for artists is that 80% of them are in precarious jobs and 60% earn less than the average industrial wage. On average, workers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the figures from the EPA on our CO2 emissions not yet another damning indictment of the failure of this Government to take the issue of climate change seriously? Some 5 million tonnes of CO2 have been emitted above the required targets and this is the third year in a row that we have missed them. From the point of view of the public, crucially, we are now facing fines amounting to...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and most of the research and development resourcing from the Government goes to the big multinational corporations through the research and development tax credit. It runs at approximately €700 million per year and it will mostly benefit the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple. That is public money just as much as anything declared today. That €700 million in tax relief,...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to establish a State-owned housing construction company, which will work with local authorities and other State and semi-State agencies to produce social and affordable housing on publicly-owned land; — allocate €5 billion from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to the Irish housing construction company; — allocate annual payments of €500 million to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...action. He continues to peddle the myth that there is no retention problem for nurses, but the truth needs to be said. For every four nursing vacancies, there is only one application. Some 5% fewer nurses work in the health service than did in 2008, while the number of managers has increased by 40%. Nurses are earning €7,000 less at every point of their career than similar...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... I wish to draw the Taoiseach's attention to this property supplement from a newspaper which states: "Strong residential investment deals. Over 1,600 apartments sold. Total value €610 million." The vast majority of these, of which approximately four are in my area, are National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, properties that were sold or are being sold to real estate...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...or to other key areas of the public service where we need them. I will give a few more examples of the miserable give back in the budget for ordinary working people. A single public servant on €25,000 will get an extra 51 cent - whoopee. They will be dancing in the aisles for that one. It would not even get them a cup of coffee. A couple, with one on the average industrial...

Other Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (11 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to describe it as a small number of targeted allowances is incredible. The latest available figures for corporate tax, which are always a few years behind, which is itself a problem, are for 2015. They show €144 billion in gross profits and tax paid of €6.2 billion, which is less than 5%, not 12.5%. Let us look at one example, the research and development tax credit. In...

Pre-European Council: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Europe, the budget of which will be multiplied by five between 2021 and 2027. The previous budget for frontier officers, which was €4 billion for the previous five years is now going up to €25 billion. There will be more officers to keep desperate migrants coming from North Africa, Syria and elsewhere out of Europe with the consequence that 35,000 men, women and children,...

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is an existential threat to humanity so is plastic pollution. The facts are really scary. We throw enough plastic away every year to circle the entire planet four times. Of the plastic we use, we use 50% just once and throw it away. Only 5% of the plastic that is used globally is recovered. Plastic accounts for 10% of all waste generated. It uses up about 8% of the world's oil...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...40% of that development at €300,000 or less. He immediately backtracked on that. Now we discover, for example, that of the 8,000 houses to be built at Cherrywood, which have been financed with €15 million of LIHAF funding, we will get 5%, not 40%. In the best case scenario there, a three-bedroom house will cost €357,000, and more likely significantly in excess of...

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...when there is war and places are being bombed to bits. We talk little about what the disastrous humanitarian consequences are afterwards and the impact that the siege is having on nearly 2 million people in a tiny pocket of land in Gaza. The facts are shocking. Some 20% of the housing stock has been destroyed as a result of various Israeli assaults. A total of 1.3 million people - 70%...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...meetings between the heads of the arms industry and the Commission, all in the context of PESCO. We have had all this lobbying by the arms industry - whose lobbying budget jumped from €2.6 million to €5.8 million in the same years - while we are to sign up to a treaty with binding commitments to increase arms expenditure and to increase the proportion of that expenditure for...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...honestly answer the question I posed. I will give him a few other suggestions. If the cost of pay equalisation for new entrants into teaching, nursing and the public service generally is €200 million, how can the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, not make a commitment on €200 million when he will propose on Thursday of this week that a commitment be made to increase substantially...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...we all know has failed disastrously. There is no serious commitment to significantly increasing the amount of council housing directly provided to solve the crisis. Instead an additional €150 million will go to housing assistance payments, HAPs. This is more money going into the pockets of private landlords. We also see a commitment to further expand this mad failed scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Negotiations (4 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...meet its targets, to take climate change seriously and do something about it. Does the Minister accept that we are failing disastrously? Carbon emissions are increasing. They have increased from 56 million tonnes of carbon during the 1990s to almost 60 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent now, so it is worsening. The EPA says Ireland faces significant fines and that we are...

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the story that is not being told. They went through the roof to astonishing levels. In 2011, gross trading profits were €73 billion. Does the Minister know what they were in 2015, according to latest figures from Revenue? They were €144 billion. Is that not extraordinary? How much tax was paid on that €144 billion in 2015? It was €6 billion on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...their commitment to the arts. What is actually happening? What has actually been discussed in delivering on Creative Ireland? It is difficult to see what might be delivered with the miserable €5 million dedicated to this initiative. What is actually happening with the commitment to community arts? We were told that every child would have an opportunity to express himself or...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that somebody who comes up with a brilliant idea in business, which is the intellectual property, and develops a product from that brilliant idea should forever and a day be permitted to pay 6.25% on all sales generated from that idea. That would not be acceptable. The company could be making an absolute fortune - €7.5 million in income and €50 million globally - but it...