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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the witness's view of the IMF's recent statement that the negative multiplier effect on the economy is three times worse than it and the Department believed? We have €8.6 billion in cuts to make over the next three years and the IMF has indicated if growth is 1% less than projected - it may be worse than that - there will be another €1 billion per year in required cuts....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We shall see. If the multiplier proposed turns out to be the general figure, our debt position would be unsustainable. Mr. Moran believes that it is currently sustainable. An unsustainable level will require a much larger level of cuts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will find out which is the case. What role does the Department have in the Clearing House Group and what lobbying has come from commercial and private interests with regard to the financial transaction tax and the attitude towards corporation tax? Does Mr. Moran have any thoughts on the potential revenues forgone by not imposing a financial transaction tax and on the very low effective...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it Mr. Moran's advice to the Government that we should not touch it? Does he have any thoughts-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It came from the answers given by the Department.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The great German playwright Bertolt Brecht said that the crime of robbing a bank is nothing compared to the crime of owning one.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: His words were written in the 1930s.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Tánaiste that the situation with the pay and pensions of both current and former bankers and bank executives in this country gives new meaning to the words "bank robbery". This is being done in the face of ordinary citizens who are raging about the fact that they have been battered with unemployment, health and education cuts, savage cuts to their incomes and cuts to...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste did not listen to me. I said it should be imposed on all incomes. Instead of further attacking working people, the poor and the vulnerable by imposing cuts in health and education and increasing student registration fees, why does the Government not impose a 10% super-levy on all incomes over €100,000 per year in the budget? That would yield a clawback not just from...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the mobility allowance for persons over 66 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48892/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the review of accident and emergency service at St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48890/12]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Child benefit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us talk about bin charges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses are the good guys and they are pointing in the right direction in terms of what we need to do. They are right in asking do we want to have an American-style tax structure or a European-style structure and the services that go with it. It seems we want Berlin services with Boston taxes but I do not believe that works. The witnesses are right in what they said and the points...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to set the scene for the points with which I disagree. On the pensions issue, the witnesses have hit on something important. They are right that 80% of the benefit going to 20% of the people is problematic and we need to deal with that but why would they not go a little further? Some €2.5 billion is given in tax reliefs and most of that goes to the top 20%. Why would they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of clarification regarding council houses, I am not clear on this in the context of the witness's position. Is he suggesting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not made clear. It is a serious question. Mr. McDonnell said certain groups would be excluded but not all council houses. He might clarify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Including council houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all socialists now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How long do I have Chairman?