Results 3,681-3,700 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are approximately 120 of them, according to tables we received from the Department.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What I do not understand is, if the Government can do what is proposed in this resolution, which is a progressive measure, why could it not have increased to some degree, if not as much as we wished, the income tax for those earning more than €100,000 on some sort of progressive increasing scale? I have genuine questions for the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and...
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I stated we would support it.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The establishment closes ranks.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the wrong kind of activity.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: None of us wants to drag out this process at this stage. Broadly speaking, these measures are reasonable.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister might be surprised to hear that I have said that now on three occasions tonight.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the attempts by certain people on the other side of the House to caricature this side, we take these issues seriously, considering the detail as much as possible in the short time available. I have a concern but I am unsure what to do about it given that, broadly speaking, these are progressive measures. Some of the increases do not distinguish between the small and big saver. I...
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. The response from the Minister for Finance was that the process was too complicated. On the issue of a wealth tax, the answer, as we stated explicitly, was that we need a comprehensive register of wealth and assets to identify how wealth is distributed. All we have, however, are Central Bank figures which show the overall quantum of wealth, how much of it is financial and how much is...
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Having a roof over one's head is not an indication of one's ability to pay €300, €400 or €500.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us not be facile about this.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All that being said, these measures are broadly progressive.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not. We proposed to reverse the cuts.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We costed the reversal.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in ours.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You could have taxed the rich.
- Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very depressing that we are debating this issue 20 years after the terrible circumstances of the X case and have done nothing in the interim. Successive governments have not had the courage to deal with the issue after the tragic circumstances following the rape of a young teenager. The State attempted to prevent her from travelling abroad to have an abortion. The Supreme Court ruled...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I feel like I am in a time warp. I agree with Senator Ó Clochartaigh. It is right and proper that the committee should inform people of the different avenues available to them. In this case they are the Financial Services Ombudsman and the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, given its deliberations on the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill and how these may...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an important issue. As I mentioned in private session, either I know this man or know others like him. It is a rather ridiculous anomaly whereby someone who has completed one year in third level education seeks to continue the course but because he is not unemployed for long enough, he is forced back into unemployment and cannot then continue his education in UCD. He is being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman Special Reports: Discussion with Ombudsman (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am absolutely gobsmacked. What Ms O'Reilly has described is shocking in the extreme. I was familiar with the scandal of medical card holders effectively being robbed by the State and the State then trying to retrospectively legalise it. It is shocking and outrageous but, oddly, not surprising that this is the culture in Departments. It gives new meaning to the expression that there is...