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Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...by another €57 million. At the finance committee, we managed to prise out information to the effect that the vast majority of the tax breaks are going to about 100 of the richest corporations in the world, including Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. They are getting money to research new iPhones in order to make fortunes above and beyond the already obscene profits they are making and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...could do to address the housing crisis. Now we have an opinion from the advocate general of the European Union saying that the original ruling, effectively, was correct. Remember what that ruling was, that Apple was paying only 1% tax when it was supposed to be paying 12.5%-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...tell us the latest figure for public expenditure on the research and development tax credit. The figure I have is that was €753 million per year up to 2021. The vast majority of that money goes to Google, Facebook, Apple and a small number of other companies. The Minister wants to give them another €27 million but there was not a cent extra in the budget - unless he wants...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...are 10,000 PhD researchers and they are really struggling. I have said this and I will say it again because, to me, it is important. One can choose to give research and development money for Apple to develop the iPhone 16.5 or whatever it is, or one could give it to our public universities to do research that might benefit society as a whole. I know which choice I would make. The...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in our public universities. As we saw from the several protests, including outside the Dáil a few weeks ago, PhD researchers are getting less than the minimum wage for teaching in our universities and doing research. We give all the research and development money to Facebook, to Apple, to the big pharmaceutical companies, when we have 10,000 people working in our universities,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much money has the Government spent on the lawyers who are representing the Government in supporting Apple to stop the people of this country getting €13 billion in additional tax revenue? It beggars belief that the Government is backing the richest company in the world, a company that was paying less than 1% tax, in a case where it claims it was paying its fair share of tax, as...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...tax. However, until we arrived in the Dáil, nobody was willing to question these things. I speak no word of a lie when I say I was on the finance committee and we asked for Google, Facebook and Apple to come in to the committee to explain their tax affairs and effective tax rate. Not only did the committee vote against it, members insisted the cameras were turned off while we...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has happened because some of us started to question the sacred cow of these multinationals. When I was on the finance committee in 2013, Deputy Doherty and I proposed a motion asking for Google, Apple and Facebook to come in to the committee. The committee voted against them coming in and, in fact, turned off the cameras when we were discussing whether they should come in. That is how...

Forestry Sector: Motion (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a forest in Enniskerry, just as it tried to do in 2013 with the entire forest estate. Only because people acted did we stop it doing so. We can go through the list of the forest sales by Coillte. The sale to Apple in Athenry is unbelievable. Coillte sold 200 ha for a data centre in Galway. It is unbelievable. In the Kilcooley Abbey Estate, 950 acres were sold by Coillte and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...other words, it acknowledged that there is not clarity around it. That is a nice way of responding to the fact that they were heavily lobbied by the producer companies to essentially not upset the apple cart, and to try to make an exceptional case for the film industry around its episodic nature and the role of the DACs. It is that lack of absolute clarity about the relationship between...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...relief to a handful of multinational corporations that are already supremely profitable. Has anybody done a cost-benefit analysis of whether that €700 million is better going to Google, Facebook and Apple or to our public universities? I bet no one has but we should. I think we would find it would be a lot more socially and economically beneficial to this country.

Decision of the General Court of the European Union in the Apple Case: Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them and on which they pay negligible levels of tax, are obscene. If the Minister does not start from that point, he is just being plain dishonest. The court did not dispute in its ruling that Apple paid 0.005% tax on vast amounts of profits. That is obscene. There are no two ways about it. It succeeded in paying that derisory level of tax on vast profits by working through companies...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On one level, the programme for Government contains everything. It is motherhood and apple pie. Some of us have criticised it because, when one looks at the detail, it is vague and aspirational and does not make tangible commitments in the key areas in which people demanded change at the general election. That is where my question is focused. For example, the section entitled "An...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...by the Taoiseach that he is not convinced about the need for a digital tax on corporations. That he needs convincing on this point gives the game away about the attitude of the Government to the Apple ruling and its commitment to large corporations that are flagrantly involved in aggressive tax avoidance for which the rest of society pays. This is not just an isolated case of trying to...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (15 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chairman. I challenge what the Taoiseach said earlier about the Apple tax ruling. The ruling clearly states that the tax rulings made by Revenue were ineffective and inconsistent. The court does not contest that the level of tax on chargeable profits was totally out of line with the amount of tax that would be paid anywhere else under normal market conditions. In other...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...tomorrow brings that into sharp relief. We would not need to borrow the vast amounts of money we are about to borrow, or are in the process of borrowing, if we took the €13 billion plus interest from Apple. We would not incur this debt burden and all the interest. It is worth saying that because it is those accumulations of wealth and capital that we are borrowing from at...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...morning stating that tomorrow or on another day this week, there will need to be statements on foot of the ruling, which will come out tomorrow, of the General Court of the European Union on the Apple tax case. This is not a small matter. We will get a ruling tomorrow as to whether the decision of the European Commission to award Revenue €13 billion in unpaid taxes plus interest...

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Therefore, we need to impose a tax on them. That is from where we will get the money, but, of course, the Government will not do it. It is allowing them to continue to benefit from massive tax loopholes. If, as I believe, the European Union is correct in the Apple case, etc., the Government helped to engineer tax loopholes to enable the company to avoid its tax responsibilities. If a...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...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, which is mostly used by those types of companies, will not boost the domestic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Chambers Ireland (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...economy, should that money not be redirected towards SMEs and public universities rather than being extended to another group of people? I am of the view that it should be redirected. I do not see why Apple should get a research and development tax credit for coming up with the latest upgrade to its iPhone 11 Pro. Directing money towards such an upgrade should not be a priority. Why do...