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Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Approximately 10% normally.

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's pre-election promises on health included free general practitioner, GP, care for all, universal health insurance and dealing with the crisis in our accident and emergency departments. All of these promises appear to be in the process of being pushed over the horizon of the next general election and disappearing into smoke. Will the Taoiseach arrange for the sub-committee on...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it happen before the next general election?

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just seek clarity and a timeline.

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With regard to the meetings the Taoiseach has had or intends to have, will he offer clarification because I did not quite hear what he said? He mentioned a debate or discussion on housing. As he knows, I have called for such a debate for two years. Owing to the mortgage arrears crisis and the potential for people to lose their homes or not to sustain their mortgages, something must be done...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify when the discussion by the committee will happen? Will it happen in the Dáil? Has the committee discussed the potential implications of the winding up of the mortgage interest supplement scheme and how it may take more people into mortgage arrears? What will be done about it? Many people in the mortgage arrears resolution process – I received a...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This seems to run contrary to what the Central Bank is supposed to be doing, namely, assisting people in mortgage distress in dealing with the banks, rather than backing up the banks against mortgage holders.

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [6348/14]

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that mortgage to rent?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received the annual report and accounts for 2012 or 2013 from the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company as the latest accounts available on the harbour company website are 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7724/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of the assets transferred from State ownership to the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company when the new company was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7723/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current rent caps for rent allowance for each council area in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8151/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 515. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units built; and the number that were allocated in each council area in the country for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. [8150/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to a parliamentary question on 5 February 2014, the reason requests by representatives of a person (details supplied) for a meeting with him have been refused in view of the fact that serious questions arose from the senior counsel's independent examination in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8152/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are nothing like the tax credits we are discussing here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply pointing out that if one calculates the effective rates for personal income taxation in the same way as the effective rates for corporations, particularly the ones in the top bracket that are making €10 million in profit per year, which is the majority of them, there is a big difference between the tax credits that the ordinary worker gets and those the corporations get....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not think that we should have an open debate in which the public can compare and contrast the regime for corporate tax with the regime for personal income tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will pick up on that issue in the context of the G20 and the Minister's ongoing engagement with the OECD. It should be a matter of deep concern for any Minister responsible for finance that we have approximately eight different estimates of the effective corporate tax rate in this country, varying from the rather fantastic figure of 14% - referred to briefly by the Taoiseach - down to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. As I pointed out to the Minister before, and which he ridiculed, in between there is a Central Statistics Office and EUROSTAT figure. It was confirmed by Mr. Seamus Coffey yesterday at the finance committee meeting. It is somewhere between 6.3% and 6.4%. I am glad I have some backup for that figure, which has been ridiculed fairly regularly by the Minister. I am in the middle or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At least we are on some common ground because these are the precise figures in which I am interested. These are hard facts and not a fictional ceramic company that would be atypical of companies at the centre of the issue. The pre-tax or gross profits in the Central Statistics Office figures do not indicate €40 billion but rather €69 billion. That is approximately €70...