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

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider higher taxes on incomes of more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42323/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest arrangements for the Constitutional Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41632/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is if there are any of them left in the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will all still be voting the same way on the budget.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the constitutional convention not a complete, utter and deliberate distraction from the real issues about which people are concerned? It is mere window-dressing to distract from the Government and the troika careering ahead with wholesale privatisation, cuts and austerity. The constitutional convention is supposed to deal with political reform. Given that the Government is privatising,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely not true. The Taoiseach should read the report in The Irish Times.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With what? Is the Taoiseach referring to the aggressive behaviour that occurred?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should read the report in The Irish Times.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should read The Irish Times.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has the wrong party.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Taoiseach that the State came into being as a result of protest and the mass movement of ordinary people. He should not be so quick to dismiss the idea of ordinary people taking to the stage of history and making vociferous demands for change.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record of the House, if the Taoiseach had read the report in The Irish Times from an independent journalist who was present, she made it absolutely clear that members of People Before Profit stood back, protested peacefully and were not involved in the activities to which the Taoiseach refers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should make it clear for the record of the House. Is it not the case that the Taoiseach is trying to predetermine the agenda of the constitutional convention and steer it away from any of the serious and substantial issues about political reform that need to be discussed by deciding in advance what issues it will discuss and what shall be at the top of the agenda, rather than...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refuted your allegation that we were involved. You should be gracious enough-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it being abolished or privatised?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for restructuring teachers' pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43086/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has to facilitate teachers without degrees who have been working for the vocational education committee for many years in view of new Teaching Council regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43085/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the detailed plan for school construction, expected in late 2012, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43118/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tax Collection (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason UCD paid the Revenue Commissioners €400,000 in unpaid tax for Student Union staff without anyone being held to account and without any investigation into where the deducted tax has gone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43119/12]