Results 19,881-19,900 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (4 Jun 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns of stoma pouch users who are worried about continued access to a full range of high quality stoma pouches and stoma management products in view of the fact that the Health Service Executive is proposing a price decrease and companies may be forced to halt services the HSE does not offer, such as community nurses who provide...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To what committee will the Bill be referred?
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take up where Deputy Murphy left off. I am in favour of universal access to health care. The repeated emphasis in the Minister of State's introductory speech and the Government's setting out of its vision to develop the health service is on the need for universality in access to health care. The removal of user fees from any group is to be welcomed. I believe that user fees for...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We could simply stop paying €9 billion in interest.
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me.
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The response to a parliamentary question in regard to how much it costs to construct a council house is that it would cost approximately €100,000 to do so. That is what I am basing my calculations on. I would appreciate it if Deputy Lawlor ceased interrupting me. This means that over ten years the scheme would pay for itself. Following that, there would be a revenue stream back to...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that the State should be investing in it. Through protesting and campaigning, we stopped the Government giving away Coillte's harvesting rights, yet all the emphasis is on handing over theassets to the private sector rather than on recognising where there could be strategic investment with significant potential to generate revenue and deal precisely with issues such as the...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to speak about this because there is probably no more important a subject we could discuss than strategic investment, which is the key to getting this country out of the economic mess it is in. This Bill is long overdue. The strategic investment bank the Government promised, which I presume is now this strategic investment fund, has taken a long time to come before us for this...
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are plenty of sites in Dún Laoghaire.
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the proposal to build 500 houses on the site of the former open prison at Shanganagh Castle in Shankill?
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government will have to give them the money.
- Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The revelations and scandals surrounding allegations of Garda malpractice, corruption, cover-ups and wrongdoing are of the most serious nature. We have had in very quick succession quite shocking revelations about the extent of these practices within An Garda Síochána and allegations regarding the apparent complicity of the Department of Justice and Equality and Governments and...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman gave Deputy Dara Murphy a second round. Can I have a second?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a Second Stage speech and the Chairman allowed Deputy Dara Murphy three extra questions. I just want one.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given what Mr. Taft stated about higher effective rates elsewhere not being detrimental to the levels of corporate investment, is there any evidence to suggest that if, for example, we applied a minimum effective rate to gross profits of, say, 12.5% or increased the nominal rate to approximately 15%, which would still leave our effective and nominal rates significantly lower than everywhere...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean if one applied a minimum effective rate of 12.5% on the gross profits of €70 million.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Then one could have all of the allowances and deductions kicking in after one paid 12.5%.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have it on income tax and it is not new.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have it on income tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would not make much difference if the real effective rate is 12.5%.