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Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and mortgage interest hikes that a golden circle is not being protected and looked after with what a former Minister has called stroke politics? Do the people not at least have the right to expect that stroke politics would be ended and that the golden circle would be broken up so that it will not only be the poor and the working people who will suffer pain in the recession?

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The national newspapers report again today on the Government's continued commitment to sell off the harvesting rights of 85% of Coillte forestry, a decision some of us-----

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----believe is criminal and stupid economically and in every other way. When will we get to debate the forestry Bill and the issues surrounding it? Will the Minister give a commitment that we will have that debate before the Government moves ahead with the sale of harvesting rights on Coillte lands?

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will still be voting together against the Government's budget.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Were they in addition to the 20?

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The individual would be kept in business.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax relief for approved retirement funds in respect of earners if more than €80,000 and for earners more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42351/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax relief foregone by the provision for patent income relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42352/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures in tabular form on the total earnings of the top 10,000 income earners; the top 1% of income earners; the top 5% of income earners; the top 10% of income earners and the top 20% of income earners; the number of earners in those groups; the average earnings of those groups; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on income tax in tabular form in bands of €10,000 ranging from €0 to €5 million; the gross income in each band; the numbers in each band; the percentage of total numbers in each band; the average income in each band; the income tax paid in each band; the universal social charge paid in each band; the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth Rate (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the most recent figures for growth and for the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34961/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 468 of 18 September 2012, when he expects to provide the full information. [42087/12]

Other Questions: Tax Yield (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When some of us on this side of the House rail against the austerity the Minister is imposing on working people and the vulnerable, he always asks us for an alternative, implying there is none. I almost felt sorry for him earlier when he said we are never helpful. Let me be helpful by offering him some alternatives. The case of just one company based in Shannon, one of the most profitable...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Either the Minister is not examining the issue seriously or he is being disingenuous. I cited an example of one of the country's most profitable companies paying a corporation tax rate of 0.5%. It was well publicised. Is it not of concern that the tax forgone to the State is approximately €90 million at a time when Ministers are considering imposing further brutal attacks on people...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about raising the effective tax rate?

Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggested it.

Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly disagree with the Minister. Ireland has become Europe's version of the Cayman Islands. It is part of an international architecture for tax avoidance in multinationals. This system of tax avoidance, of which we form a critical part in Europe, is destabilising the global economy. As multinationals are increasingly not paying tax across the world - an act we facilitate - there is...

Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the effective rate?

Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not seeing much of an effect.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a wealth tax as an alternative to property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42283/12]