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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to Mr. Masding's office was passed around to four different people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those people still have not got a meeting. Will the witness explain what is going on, as somebody is begging the bank for a meeting in order to formulate a long-term solution but it is not forthcoming?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome that and I will certainly take up Mr. Masding's offer. I hope he recognises that this indicates, as others have noted, that there is a problem in not engaging on the part of the banks. There has been much talk this week about strategic defaulters and people not engaging but there is clear evidence of people wanting to engage but not getting the response they should get from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman could give me the chance to ask my question. At the end of the process these people would be left with a huge debt that would have to be paid off before selling the house. What is the difference between that and the economic concession and is the economic concession possibly a better deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Bertók. I cannot see him at the moment but I will try to talk to his disembodied voice. I am new and trying to navigate my way around the parameters of the debate on the issue. It might be useful for us to see some contrasts between how various countries deal with some of the issues of how one balances different competing imperatives. Broadly speaking, I am in favour of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Bertók for that. In a way he is throwing the ball back to us to work out these complexities, which is fair enough, but I thank him for setting out the parameters. What I understand him to say is to proceed incrementally and start with the high risk. That seems to be the general approach, and not to be too burdensome. Mr. Bertók mentioned, and my limited knowledge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank TASC and Social Justice Ireland for producing interesting and progressive alternatives to the austerity agenda which has been pursued for the past few years and which most of us would agree has failed appallingly. I welcome the emphasis on jobs, investment, no further cuts and seeking revenue through taxation measures. That is the way forward. I would probably go further in some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does Dr. Healy mean by off balance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that 33 extra children? Is it an increase?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the organisations who have attended. I have some specific questions about some of the issues raised, but I want to start with the generality of what is common to many of the presentations. Nothing enrages me more than the issues that have been raised. I am sick of the situation, because it is a most inexcusable and inexplicable crisis. Whatever else a government of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives for attending. I very much welcome the emphasis they all placed on the need to break from the policies of austerity that have been pursued, to my mind and, I suspect, theirs, pretty disastrously over the past five years. Their comments echo the points made by quite a few of the organisations, such as Barnardos, Focus Ireland, Threshold and Social Justice Ireland....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think he was ever Santa Claus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me say to FLAC and the DFI that I have a sympathetic ear for their critique of the austerity agenda and how it impacts on the most vulnerable in society. I could not agree with them more about the need to say enough is enough and to reverse some of the damage that has been done, which was catalogued extremely well by them, particularly in the DFI's submission, which shows the extent of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a brief supplementary question for the ICMSA. Does it recognise the difficulty we have in distinguishing between the strong case for defending a heritage and way of life and protecting the right of families to carry on their farming tradition, and the case for capital acquisitions tax or capital gains tax? I see the logic from the association's point of view. However, from the point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not saying tax them, but those who can afford it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to add my thanks to that. Those in the secretariat deserve great credit for their tremendous work. I hope they get a bit of rest this evening. I thank all the groups for coming in as well.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is what is coming up here matching with what we received beforehand? Is it the same?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do you have that quote?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Professor Barry for his contribution. He set matters out in a very interesting and illuminating way. What this sub-committee is about is debatable. Is it about protecting the 12.5% rate, about understanding the corporate tax regime or about ensuring that we have a fair corporate tax regime? I would be interested in hearing Professor Barry's opinion on what this sub-committee...