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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not mean to cut across the witness but I must stop him there. That is not the point I am making. We can debate that and there is much dispute about it. We have many figures about what the effective rate might or might not be. In the example that is in the public domain - I shall not mention the company again - the effective rate implied, and from the company's records, is about 2%....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask Mr. Kermode to comment on the same thing. There is an investigation happening into the situation and particular transactions in Ireland, and also in Luxembourg and Holland. Does the investigation centre around the question of how that happened and whether the tax ruling that allows for it to happen is legitimate or predatory tax competition?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept all that. I accept that we are dealing with a new economy, particularly in digital. There is also the issue of intellectual property rights, big global companies and where exactly value is being generated. These are, I accept, complex questions. Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - although I know less about the latter two - still seem to be complete outliers in terms of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made my point. It seems obvious to me that all of those things are true but it still seems to be heavily concentrated in Ireland and other places. Fair tax competition was mentioned as against unfair tax competition but I find it difficult to accept the distinction between the two. Let me spell it out. Competition in the area of tax is not competition on making things that are...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask a one-line question of Mr. Lynch concerning his presentation? He expressed a little scepticism about whether anything coming out of the BEPS process might be applicable in reality. Did I pick that up correctly?

Order of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it be taken this session?

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The produce of nuclear power plants, nuclear waste and the nuclear industry generally in how it relates to the production of nuclear weaponry make source of nuclear energy the most dangerous substance in the world. Nothing could be more serious than how we deal with it. It may be one of the great indictments of society that human beings have produced the most dangerous and lethal substance...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Exports (12 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the recent communications or reports his Department has had on the Dublin array wind farm project; if in the view of the postponement of the planned deal with the UK on the export of wind energy from Ireland and the very serious questions being asked about the environmental and social value of large scale wind farms...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (12 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of serious questions being raised by communities and credible experts regarding the efficiency and environmental value of large scale industrial wind farms, if he will undertake a root and branch review of energy policy and in particular a cost benefit analysis of all renewable energy sources, with a view to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the OECD meeting in Paris in February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24240/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporation tax regime in the context of the OECD plans to tackle base erosion and profit shifting at the OECD meeting in Paris in February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24241/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from a meeting of the Joint Sub-Committee on Global Taxation, to which Professor Jim Stewart was giving evidence. He was asked by Deputies from various parties to back up his assertion that the real corporate tax rate in this country - the so-called effective rate - is only 2.2%. He was categorical about it. Whereas the Government claims the corporate tax rate is 11.9%,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. I only got six or seven minutes but everybody else got 15 minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How does the Taoiseach respond to these serious allegations, given the state of the public finances in this country?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We use the Irish tax code.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What if it is in the Cayman Islands, which have nothing?

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even before the introduction of the housing assistance payment scheme, there was often a significant problem where tenants sought transfers or were made offers where those offers were felt to be completely unworkable from the point of view of the tenant but were deemed to be acceptable by the local authority, particularly where matters to do with proximity to school for children or proximity...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those are big areas.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State says that people have to be housed in their area of choice, but the problem is that local authority areas are often very big. The Dún Laoghaire-Dalkey list covers a very large area. One end of it could be far away from where children go to school at the other end. While the local authority might say it is in a person's area of choice, in reality it is not...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has to be a reasonable proximity to a school where children are involved. In addition, there should be access to family support networks for elderly, disabled or ill people. Those criteria should be written into the legislation so that a local authority would have to consider them in deciding what is a reasonable offer. Housing departments will sometimes take such matters into...