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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the delay in a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin that has been in prefabs since 1995 and who had expected to be in a new building since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42186/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) may expect new buildings in view of the fact that they have been in prefabs since 1995; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41961/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that 1.8% GDP growth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are some oddities to the analysis we have heard, as referred to by other speakers. To follow on from the last point, the Fiscal Advisory Council, in its earlier reports - although, perhaps significantly, not in its most recent one - included an interesting graph which showed that if growth were to turn out 1% less or 1% greater than projected, the adjustment necessary to meet the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is very revealing. One can conclude, therefore, that the supposed increase in employment, which, oddly, is not matched by significant increases in growth, could very well have something to do with how people are being categorised as either employed or unemployed, with people on schemes or internships putting themselves in the latter category.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not so sure. We are not talking about such a dramatic increase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What are the figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How many people have joined back to education schemes, back to work schemes and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I expect they might be very interesting, and I intend to seek them out. There is a very strange contradiction going on here, which Mr. McCarthy has acknowledged is difficult to explain, in that we have jobs but no growth. I accept that he might not have all the answers today, but the issue certainly requires further analysis. I understand the CSO has estimated that 40,000 people are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Going on that estimate, if 68,000 people had not left in the past two years, what would the unemployment rate be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would appreciate if Mr. McCarthy would come back to me with that figure. We need to know what impact the enormous flood of emigration is having on the unemployment statistics. Is it fair to say that if the estimated 68,000 who have left had not done so, we would be looking at a significantly higher unemployment rate than what we have now or even what we had two years ago?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not fair to say to say, therefore, that if we did not have people flooding out of the country, then the story, as Mr. McCarthy described it, would not be so rosy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As regards the jobs that are being created, Mr. McCarthy indicated that they are concentrated in export services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Did Mr. McCarthy point to one of the tables as showing that exports of goods were down and exports of services up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are financial services making a significant contribution to the increase in services exports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses probably cannot answer this question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses said that they are basing their contribution on the adjustment figure of €3.1 billion originally set out for this year and they cannot tell us what adjustment would be required to meet the deficit. Can the witnesses say anything about the primary surplus or are they barred from answering that? What adjustment would be needed for us to achieve the primary surplus next...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's indulgence, I would like to dedicate my comments on this issue of Ireland's forests, which is very close to my heart and to the hearts of many people in this country, to my auntie, Silvia Stewart nee Boyd Barrett, who died on Sunday after a short and sudden illness. I have just come from her funeral. She was very proud to have a nephew elected to the...
- Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is kind of appropriate, in a way, to connect any discussion about Ireland's forests to things that are important to us, to people and to places which are important to us. A play I strongly recommend to people that has just opened is Frank McGuinness's new play, "The Hanging Gardens", which is about Irish families, the places they inhabit and their...
- Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They could get cheaper flights with Ryanair.