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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At least we are on some common ground because these are the precise figures in which I am interested. These are hard facts and not a fictional ceramic company that would be atypical of companies at the centre of the issue. The pre-tax or gross profits in the Central Statistics Office figures do not indicate €40 billion but rather €69 billion. That is approximately €70...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----assessable is a pretty big jump. The Minister has indicated in the past that this concerns standard accounting practice, reliefs and so forth. There must be a very serious discussion about that. It is a pretty big jump, as far as I am concerned, and we need to drill down into the matter. We need to examine what measures have been included in Finance Bills over the past ten to 20...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a hypothetical "I". Let us say somebody earns €70,000 per year, but only €35,000 or €40,000 is assessable. A sum of €30,000 is taken out of the equation because it is not assessable. That would be wonderful. Many families here would be delighted with that, but that is not what happens. Why does it happen in the corporate sector? No doubt, the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are nothing like the tax credits we are discussing here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply pointing out that if one calculates the effective rates for personal income taxation in the same way as the effective rates for corporations, particularly the ones in the top bracket that are making €10 million in profit per year, which is the majority of them, there is a big difference between the tax credits that the ordinary worker gets and those the corporations get....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not think that we should have an open debate in which the public can compare and contrast the regime for corporate tax with the regime for personal income tax?

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that mortgage to rent?

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With regard to the meetings the Taoiseach has had or intends to have, will he offer clarification because I did not quite hear what he said? He mentioned a debate or discussion on housing. As he knows, I have called for such a debate for two years. Owing to the mortgage arrears crisis and the potential for people to lose their homes or not to sustain their mortgages, something must be done...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify when the discussion by the committee will happen? Will it happen in the Dáil? Has the committee discussed the potential implications of the winding up of the mortgage interest supplement scheme and how it may take more people into mortgage arrears? What will be done about it? Many people in the mortgage arrears resolution process – I received a...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This seems to run contrary to what the Central Bank is supposed to be doing, namely, assisting people in mortgage distress in dealing with the banks, rather than backing up the banks against mortgage holders.

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [6348/14]

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's pre-election promises on health included free general practitioner, GP, care for all, universal health insurance and dealing with the crisis in our accident and emergency departments. All of these promises appear to be in the process of being pushed over the horizon of the next general election and disappearing into smoke. Will the Taoiseach arrange for the sub-committee on...

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it happen before the next general election?

Other Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just seek clarity and a timeline.

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has stated he discussed the issue of flags and parades with President Clinton. I suggest the New York St. Patrick's Day parade has given new meaning to what James Connolly called the carnival of reaction in its disgraceful refusal to allow people in the LGBT community to parade their identity. The Taoiseach should make some statement in response to this disgraceful decision....

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could wear the badge.

Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Approximately 10% normally.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received the annual report and accounts for 2012 or 2013 from the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company as the latest accounts available on the harbour company website are 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7724/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of the assets transferred from State ownership to the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company when the new company was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7723/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (18 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current rent caps for rent allowance for each council area in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8151/14]