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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (16 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the full costs of providing social housing via the rental accommodation scheme and long term leasing broken down by council; if he will provide details of the average rents paid for one, two and three bedroom homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33648/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (16 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for homeless services across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33647/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Job Creation Issues (17 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to consult stakeholders in any plans for job creation in the area of natural resources; and his proposals to progress such a plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35076/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Job Creation Issues (17 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to utilise Ireland's natural resources for job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35074/13]

Proposed Deployment of the Permanent Defence Force to UNDOF: Motion (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I oppose the Government’s proposal to send Irish troops onto the Syrian border. Anybody looking at the situation in Syria is appalled and anybody with an ounce of human decency would want to do anything that could be done to try to assist with the growing humanitarian crisis that is developing there. Millions of refugees have led to a crisis that is worse than that in Rwanda. Tens...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed list of expenses which were considered to have been incurred wholly and inclusively for the purposes of trade by banks in which the State has a shareholding, and as such were set-off against tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36194/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who is due to commence first year secondary school in September, who has been told they will not be permitted to wear their Hijab on the school premises [36192/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied), an Eircom employee for 36 years; if he will intervene with Eircom on their behalf as this person has exhausted all industrial relations avenues with the company. [36191/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 629. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Health Service Executive will withdraw notice given to Childminders’ Advisers in most Local Health Office areas; the alternative she proposes for the funding and LHO provision of networking, information, training and support, as well as links with parents to the estimated 20,000 to 37,000 childminders, minding children in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the same building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise in advance because I may have to leave immediately after this to attend a debate on the situation in Syria. I thank everybody for their contributions and submissions to this discussion, particularly John O’Sullivan. When his petition came before us it rang bells for many of us because we had seen similar situations occurring elsewhere. As John Douglas has said, it rang...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am interested to hear Mr. O'Sullivan's views on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is different procedure from the way I work in other committees but will I abide by the Chair. The response given by Mr. Hegarty does not deal with another point raised by Mr. O'Sullivan. Connolly Shoes workers have also raised the point with me. We change the legislation dealing with the insolvency fund so that means - if I understand Mr. Hegarty correctly - that workers can at least...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not hear all of Ms Lynch’s contribution. Is she disagreeing with that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Ms Lynch saying that in the Employment Appeals Tribunal in the first instance or in the new WRC-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Private first.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Saint-Amans may have gathered from quite a few of the questioners that there is a consensus in this country that we are not a tax haven and he has given some comfort to that consensus by suggesting that we are not a tax haven. The definition of "tax haven" Mr. Saint-Amans is using, which is current, is meaningless. It is just another thing the multinationals have spread around. The...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then why does the term "double Irish" exist?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Saint-Amans has not answered the question of why the concept is called "double Irish". It is not called double German, double French-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes; it is double Dutch. The only explanation Mr. Saint-Amans seems to be giving is that our low corporate tax rate seems to attract companies involved in this aggressive tax avoidance. For the benefit of people trying to understand this situation, is the following brief description, given to me by former Google workers, an accurate description of how Ireland functions as a facilitator of...