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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know about that.

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us believe we should tell the markets to take a hike and not pay the €8 billion in interest on a debt that is mostly not ours. Will he confirm that the figure is €8 billion? The Minister is hell-bent on going for the 5.1% target, which means either €2.8 billion or €2.9 billion in cuts. Most people do not care about the difference between the two figures...

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pre-budget consultation.

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister examine sectors he has not examined before?

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that a decimal point on the deficit?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering progressive tax measures such as wealth taxes, higher taxes on top earners or increasing the corporation tax rate as an alternative to measures that would impact further on low and middle income earners and public services in his framing of Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41476/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to keeps the promise to assign 0.7% of spending on overseas development aid by 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41566/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on mortgage arrears last met. [42212/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not that we lack optimism about the future when we ask these questions, rather it is that some of us and members of the public are fed up to the back teeth of warning against certain behaviour and activity by developers, and the bankers and Governments who facilitate them, and never being listened to. Regardless of how many times these warnings are issued, be it by political...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach knows it well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They did better that Tom McFeely. Obviously, those cases involved smaller houses. There is no reason the construction industry, in the provision of public and private housing, should not have integrity and enjoy trust. One cannot paint everybody in the National Asset Management Agency and all developers and contractors with the same brush. Clearly, the McFeely episode, which was a disaster...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We built box apartments.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We no longer have clerks of works.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the schedule of meetings for the Economic Management Council before the budget. [40915/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council last met. [42213/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should we take the questions first and then get the Taoiseach to reply?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question to the Taoiseach is similar to that asked by Deputy Higgins, albeit looking at it from the angle of those who are affected by this dictatorship of the Economic Management Council, which itself appears to be nothing more than a conduit for the demands of the European Central Bank, the international financial markets, the bankers here and the very wealthy. Such groups appear to get...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should tell Members the Government does not intend to take €400 million from the poorest people in Ireland out of the social welfare budget. He should state the Government will not hit the disabled again, it will not hit class sizes and will not hit low and middle-income families. The Taoiseach should provide Members with such an assurance and that the Government is at...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Ministers?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give an assurance that measures he may take in budget 2014 will not lead to any further increases in class sizes in view of the fact that classrooms here already contain 20% more than the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42187/13]