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Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...deal of fanfare before Christmas. The answers were distinctly lacking in detail about what exactly Creative Ireland is going to mean and what is the long-term commitment. I understand that €5 million is allocated to Creative Ireland, which does not seem to be a very large amount. Some €1 million allocated to local authorities for community programmes and spread out among...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the planned allocation of the €5 million for Creative Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7705/17]

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not deal with the problem. Some scientists now state we could be looking at an increase in temperatures of up to 7% within this century. If we think about the fact the ice age was caused by a 5% drop in temperature, think about the ice age in reverse. Life was extinguished during the ice age in huge parts of the globe because it was too cold. Think about huge parts of the globe...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 25:In page 27, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "14.The Minister for Finance is to order a study to be carried out on the operation of Relevant Contracts Tax, particularly in relation to rise in self-employment in the construction industry, and is to report to the Dáil within six months of the enactment of this Act on the findings of the study.". I...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...consequence, wages overall and social welfare payments. Essentially, it exploited a dire crisis to ratchet down wages and social welfare entitlements. The budget is now famously known as the €5 budget, a pathetic amount for ordinary jobseekers and pensioners who, I would like to remind the House, the Minister of State and the public, are still worse off than they were back in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the event. Is it any wonder that we had the pretty shocking decision of the Government to cut the arts, culture and film budget by 16% and to cut the Irish language budget by 9%. We had a €30 million cut in the case of arts, film and culture and €5 million in the case of the Irish language. I have heard the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., we say to break through this nonsense and begin to go after the money that these corporations are dodging in tax. The untold story of the last number of years is that while the incomes of ordinary people were slashed to a degree of 15% to 20%, our health budget lost €3 billion, the public sector lost 30,000 workers, education and disability funding was cut and we managed to...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are holding the country to ransom. Citizens have been left stranded and are increasingly becoming angry and frustrated as for close to 50 days Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have been playing out this really cynical spectacle. 5 o’clock This is motivated solely by the pursuit of political power, while the citizens are blighted with a diabolical...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...councillors have also not asked for a giant cruise berth. One of the reasons they do not want it is they believe these plans pose a significant financial risk to the public. It is estimated that €18 million is required to build the berth, which we think is an under-estimate because it is more likely to cost between €30 million and €40 million. The council and the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...have very high incomes, so they have surplus wealth every year that they can translate into wealth, as the Minister put it. That wealth becomes self-perpetuating. If someone has a lot of money, a million quid, it makes money for them. They just sit there and watch it accumulate. As the Minister pointed out, it is not just property. We understand the distinction, but the point is to...

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in public - the cameras had to be switched off. The figures have again been buried in these papers that nobody reads. They show that the amount of income that was siphoned off under the category of trade charges increased from €5 billion in 2006 to €21 billion in 2011. Some €16 billion extra each year was siphoned off through royalties and patents under the...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that the levels of poverty and deprivation among the most vulnerable sectors of society have spiralled through the roof. The small give-backs, including the €3 increase in pensions and the €5 per month increase in child benefit, are pathetic, given that rates have been frozen for the past four years and that the groups hit most have been the victims of other cuts in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Siteserv but if I may pursue the question I put to Mr. Brown about Siteserv-type scenarios. If I understand him correctly he said that he cannot imagine a situation where a commercial loan of €150 million would be written down by €110 million where that company would continue in business. I think that is what Mr. Bell said. If I understand him correctly, Mr. Brown followed...

Income and Living Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the current Government; notes, in this regard, that:— the Central Statistics Office’s (CSO) Survey on Income and Living Conditions shows the number of households suffering deprivation has risen from 24.5 per cent in 2011 to 30.5 per cent in 2013 and the number living in consistent poverty has risen from 6.9 per cent to 8.2 per cent; — the CSO also shows that the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...most countries in Europe. The Joint Research Centre's recent report on climate impacts in Europe details the enormous costs already incurred in Ireland owing to events such as flooding. Some €750 million has been paid out by insurers since 2000. This indicates, based on the current trajectory, that the costs, which are really quite astronomical right across Europe, are set to...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to add one piece to Deputy Donnelly’s maths. If we take in all the figures the Minister is talking about and add a possible €36 million gap between the Minister’s estimate of the number of households that will get the grant and the number the Central Statistics Office, CSO, says exist, it comes to €42 million but the Minister has not given us a figure for...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...000 per year that would have resulted from cutting the top rate of tax, it did not do enough in that regard because the people earning over €70,000 and certainly those earning over €100,000 and €125,000 still got multiples of what was given to people who are on the poverty line, the working poor and those on or under the average industrial wage. That is not fair....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wealth Audit (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of compiling accurate information in that regard would be very complicated and difficult. That is not acceptable. We should find that accurate information. If the Credit Suisse report is even 50% right, it is shocking that the top 5% of people in this country hold 40% of the wealth, which amounts to just under €250 billion. Even a 0.5% tax on that amount could provide an...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...14% was bandied about at one stage, which was truly mystifying. Revenue's CTS1 statistics table on corporate tax tells its own story, and the suggestions that corporations pay anywhere close to 12.5% are exposed when one looks at the CTS1 table. Revenue helpfully breaks down the tax cases in the corporate sector into categories of profitability, starting with bands from €1 to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them or to find out what means they have in order not to give them something. The most obvious current example is water metering which, to my mind, is an utter waste of money. Some hundreds of millions of euro are being wasted. Immense effort has been made to ascertain how much one can charge somebody with a regressive tax. Similarly, there is very invasive means-testing for a number...