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

Richard Boyd Barrett: A controversial issue in the film industry - Mr. Cody has probably followed this as well – is that of continuity of service and who the employer is. To what extent is that in Revenue’s remit, if at all? I wish to understand where the division lies. The producer companies are claiming a tax credit, making it relevant to Revenue, under section 481. They might set up ten, 15 or...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is complicated stuff as Mr. Cody knows. They claimed the tax credit for the production of a film. That DAC at some point is wound up, but that film is still potentially generating revenue which should be taxed. What is being taxed if there is no longer any company? Are we getting the revenue? Is that being chased? This is also of interest to the actors and performers in terms of the...

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: 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...

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: 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...

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...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings will occur on 17 May. The families of the victims of the bombings are still looking for truth and justice. A film documentary opens tomorrow, which again looks at those bombings and the murders. The producer of the film "Anatomy of a Massacre" is in the Public Gallery. I met him and a relative of one of the victims. I refer to Cathy Doyle, whose sister,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it is clear at this stage that there is no level of atrocity that Israel is not willing to commit against the Palestinian people. It should have been clear long before now for a state that was built on ethnic cleansing on an ongoing basis, on apartheid and on a 17-year-long siege of Gaza, but now, when we look at the massacre in Gaza, it should be clear. Under the genocide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit put a motion to the Dáil in November of last year asking the Government to take a case against Israel for genocide under the ICJ and it voted against it. Now, belatedly, because South Africa did what Ireland should have done, the Government is saying there will be some class of intervention. I suppose later is better than not at all, but when we consider the horror...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ursula von der Leyen is directly complicit with the genocidal massacre that Israel has committed in Gaza over the past seven months. She greenlit the massacre and she should be unceremoniously sacked. People should state publicly that she should not remain as the President of the EU Commission. They should say publicly, "Ursula von der Leyen; sack her." Say publicly she should be sacked...

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise that I was not able to listen to much of the earlier discussion. I was busy with something else in this place. This is a very important issue. It is of particular interest in my area because there are plans for a very significant offshore renewable energy development off the east coast. As anybody who is concerned about the climate crisis we are facing knows, the starting...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the members of Fórsa in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council who are visiting. They might be interested to know we are discussing trade union-related matters, but this time with respect to members of our Defence Forces. The Bill seeks to allow them to associate with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. “Allowed to associate with” is an interesting phrase...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but at this point neither the legislation nor the Minister is explicitly ruling out investments by the fund - or is he? - in companies that might help sustain the illegal occupation of Palestine or sustain, underpin or co-operate with Israeli apartheid. He is not telling us that this is definitely going to be the case, to be clear. Obviously, we would consider tabling amendments if he...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and our Malaysian colleagues for those kind words. The abuse, neglect, beating and mistreatment by tens of thousands of children by church-run institutions in this country over decades with the collusion or facilitation of the State is a dark chapter of shame in the history of our country. Thousands and thousands of people who survived those industrial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach taking the people of this country for fools when he suggests that his plan to dismantle the triple lock is not a full attack on Ireland's neutrality? Whenever he attempts to justify this move he is planning on the triple lock, he refers to Russia. Of course, we all condemn Russia's attack on Ukraine as an indefensible occupation and military aggression. However, at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the extensive waiting lists to receive gender-affirming healthcare at the gender clinic in St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown (details supplied); if there are plans to employ more gender-affirming healthcare professionals in this facility or others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19073/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of years a school (details supplied) will remain at another location; if the specialist rooms, for example, the science lab, will be in place and ready for use when the new school year begins in August 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18526/24]