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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To clarify, in cases where rents are increased by landlords in RAS arrangements or whatever, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is breaching the caps which individuals cannot breach in private arrangements with landlords.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (8 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the full scientific evidence including original documentation and reports, along with the names of the State pathologists and laboratories, that were involved in the compiling of the evidence and conclusions sent to his Department regarding phytophthora ramorum in Gougane Barra; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the profits from the timber removed from Gougane Barra, a public amenity forest, will be reinvested in the forest park; the amount of timber in cubic metres that was the final amount; the amount per cubic metre that was obtained for it; the total sale price; the age of the trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If it is okay, we intend to split it with 15 minutes each.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Against the background of an absolutely dire housing emergency, this Bill is a fairly pathetic response from the Government. One aspect of the legislation may have a marginal impact on the crisis we face and I will turn to that in a minute. However, against the overall background of record numbers of people presenting as homeless, that is, six per day, probably the longest housing waiting...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is already the case.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (13 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has any role in ensuring the welfare of children in homeless situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21041/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (13 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether the Children First guidelines are being adhered to in the context of children whose families are made homeless and are in homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21042/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department will put in place to address the failures to implement a European Court of Justice ruling on working time which was made more than ten years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17476/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the varying approaches of different banks to dealing with mortgage distress, and particularly the stated intention of some banks to pursue mortgage holders for the full amount of their mortgage, even after they have been required to give up their family home, in cases of voluntary surrender, the measures he is considering to ensure greater...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Prices (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific measures he is considering or tools he has at his disposal for preventing the emergence of another property bubble, in view of the dramatic rise in rents and property prices in Dublin and other urban centres and given the macroeconomic threat potentially constituted by such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22280/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 729. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to refurbish the St. Elizabeth Court care facility, North Circular Road, Dublin 7. [22216/14]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank both contributors for their comments to the committee. It is worth asking both of them, putting this debate in context, whatever about all the nuts and bolts and the questions of who and why, if they agree that aggressive tax avoidance by multinational corporations is a major contributor to the spectacular growth in the gap between the rich and poor. Each year report after report...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an amazing response, to be honest. Could any reasonable person believe the correlation is coincidental given the spectacular wealth of certain individuals, whose current concentration has never been seen before? Circumstances are such that one individual could be worth tens, if not hundreds, of billions of euro. They are the CEOs of the companies in question and we are discussing...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore, the gap is even greater.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not about directing remarks at Mr. Keegan personally. I was surprised that he would not accept that there was a connection between tax avoidance and the widening gap between the rich and poor. He states he teaches compliance with the law. As I do not know a lot about what he teaches, I am not personalising the issue at all. There is the question of compliance with the law and that...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. I am not saying Mr. Keegan's organisation is encouraging tax avoidance, but to my mind it is extraordinary that somebody would not acknowledge that there was a connection between the two phenomena.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is hard to quantify the extent of transfer mispricing, which seems to be one feature of tax avoidance, because corporations operate on an international basis and we do not have country by country reporting, as pointed out by Mr. McCaughey. I would like to hear a little more about whether we could on our own start a process of reporting. It seems that we could and should and not just wait...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion (27 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.