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- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are not listening.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. I have not finished.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Standing Order allows me to-----
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had not finished.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Standing Order does not put a time limit on it.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, you have overstepped yours.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our deficit is now debt interest because we now have a primary surplus. We have achieved this surplus because of a cruel and unjust six years of austerity. Given this surplus has been achieved through the suffering of the people, we now have an unanswerable moral case to tell the EU it should either give us a good deal and some retrospective justice for what has been done to us, or we will...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If that is the case, why waste €1 billion on meters?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if one is in the RAS, rental accommodation scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about taxing corporations?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No one over here said that it did.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the widespread allegations by construction workers of the abuse of the subcontracting system by major building contractors and the failure properly to protect the rights of building workers in the construction industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39091/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene in the current dispute between workers and a developer (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that this is a State contract and bricklayers who began working for a subcontractor on the site last May say they were earning around €107 for a full working week; and if he will make a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporate tax rate with President Obama or any other leaders during his recent trip to New York to address the UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39812/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporate tax rate at the recent Rhode Island event where he met with Governor Lincoln Chaffee and senior public representatives, including senators and congressmen, in his promotion of trade and investment links between Ireland and Rhode Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39813/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My questions relate to the issue of corporate tax. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Féin have all made it clear that they are committed to retaining a low corporate tax regime, supposedly to lure in investment, as a key part of the State's economic strategy. As the Taoiseach knows, a small minority of Deputies question this attitude. I wonder how the Taoiseach will respond...
- Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's Pre-Budget 2015 Statement: Statements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council might have written a different pre-budget statement about the capacity of people to bear even more austerity because of the crisis memory, as referred to by Deputy Paul Murphy, had it been written following the demonstration last Saturday week. It got that very wrong. What the demonstration showed is that people have had enough and they are not willing to...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted a review of the rent allowance scheme; the way the rent caps relate to current market prices; the way the scheme as it stands is contributing or not to the increase in homelessness; if she will provide details of any and all such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39801/14]