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State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Here is the supreme irony. The Minister says we must sell the harvesting rights to our forests because we must pay off the gambling debts of banks, yet those banks or a Swiss bank such as Helveta Wealth, with its subsidiary headed by the former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, may end up owning the forests. The choice we are putting forward is very simple. Should the people or the banks own the...

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State can say that about the banks too and that is why he should assert some control over them.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He does not exert any control over the banks and cannot even give them the instruction to write-down unsustainable mortgages. I certainly do not trust him to ask the banks to manage our forests for us.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Look at the heckling.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are asking the Government to keep these assets in public ownership and develop them the way they are developed elsewhere in Europe. Switzerland is half the size of Ireland with roughly the same acreage under forest and it has 100,000 forestry-related jobs. We could do that. We could get money from the European Investment Bank to do it. It is money in the bank and it would protect our...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Statistics (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual figures on gross capital information here between the years 2000 and 2012 or up to as recently as such figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10730/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on discussions held with EU Finance Ministers in Davos, Switzerland, on 24 January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5484/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gas Exploration (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the declared profits from Kinsale Gas since its commencement; the total tax take to the State and the effective tax rate; if he will provide a breakdown by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4597/13]

Order of Business (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bad enough that the Government plans to impose a tax on homes which will put an intolerable burden on hundreds of thousands of families already blighted with unemployment, mortgage distress and income cuts but it is nothing short of sabotage and manipulation of the democratic process that it will guillotine the most important Bill to come before the House this year. There is a clearly...

Order of Business (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Remove the guillotine and we will stay until 9.30 p.m.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have had a lot to deal with this week, with the week that has been in it, so my examination of this issue has been somewhat rushed. While I have not fully scrutinised every aspect of this important legislation, I feel I need to speak on it. A number of issues of considerable concern regarding this package of legislation - the Bill before the House and a related Bill that we have discussed...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It refers to matters connected with SOLAS's functions.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is strange the word "education" is not mentioned. That worries me. There is a reason for being worried about it, given the result of the setting up of these super-quangos in the past, such as, for example, the HSE, which we all know turned into an utter disaster. The HSE replaced the health boards. While there is no question the health boards had major problems, at least they were more...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the recent Irish Bank Resolution Corporation/Promissory Note deal, it is his intention to pass on the benefit of the claims that one billion euro in savings in the form of a less severe budget adjustment in Budget 2014; if so, if he will quantify the amount of any such new adjustment target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10630/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if given Eurostat figures that put Ireland's implicit tax rate at 6.8%, he will consider establishing a minimum effective corporation tax rate of 12.5% on the full amount of corporation pre-tax profits; if he will provide figures/projections on what such a minimum effective rate would yield in extra revenue to the State; and if he will make a statement on the...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I join Deputy Catherine Murphy in protesting in the strongest possible terms at the imposition of the guillotine. Many of us would like to speak for a considerably longer time because there is a lot in this Bill. The Tánaiste put on a display of political cynicism when we was questioned on this matter yesterday. It beggared belief that Government Deputies were chortling in their seats...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill for the Government's so-called property tax - in reality the home tax it plans to inflict on hundreds of thousands of ordinary struggling householders - is having its final Stages rammed through this House with yet another guillotine this evening. Just as the Government imposed a guillotine in the debate before Christmas, it is doing so again to foreclose proper debate and scrutiny...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----will not be assessed for the purpose of the property tax while the small garden or back yard of a semi-detached house, owned by an ordinary citizen-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----will be liable for the purposes of the property tax. Is this not proof that yet again, when it comes to the property tax, the super-wealthy are being protected-----