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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new travel subsidy scheme to replace the mobility allowance scheme; her plans for associated statutory provisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42096/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make changes to the budget 2015 proposals, particularly in view of the considerable public outrage concerning the cumulative impact of direct and indirect taxes on low- and middle-income families imposed over recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42042/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The weekend's protests were not the result of communication problems; they were really an elemental outburst of rage, not only against water charges but also against six years of unfairness, stealth taxes and cuts. Much of the anger is centred on the cumulative impact not only of direct taxation but also of indirect taxation and charges. If the Government is listening to what the people...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That response really demonstrates how the Minister just does not get it. He does not understand why people went out on the streets at the weekend. I will just throw his own figures back at him. Somebody earning €17,000, as mentioned by the Minister, got €173 back in the budget. Somebody earning €120,000 got €687 back, according to the budget document. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the problem with statistics. The Minister knows what they say about statistics. It just does not reflect the human reality that people are facing. That is what was expressed at the weekend. The OECD found last week that Ireland, out of 41 countries in the OECD, was 37th, or near the bottom of the league table, in terms of child poverty. Since 2008, child poverty has increased...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the proposed knowledge box tax scheme being worked on by his Department; and if he will confirm reports that the Government is consulting leading multinationals based here on the design of the proposed new scheme and the way he plans to ensure the knowledge box does not become another mechanism for tax avoidance by major...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, while low and middle income families were preparing to get out on the streets to protest against the unjust water charges, it was reported that the Department of Finance was working with multinational companies to discuss the patent box proposal. Is it true that it was clearly indicated that the Department was reassuring multinational companies that no further tax burden would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The double Irish was a massive tax avoidance scheme by the multinationals which centred, to a large extent, on the way in which they could charge for the intellectual property rights of subsidiary companies which were tax resident nowhere and, consequently, avoid paying billions of euro in tax. Is the patent box not exactly the same because it centres on intellectual property? It is about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers who work in these companies pay tax in the region of 30% to 35%, but, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the people who own these companies pay tax at 2% on their enormous profits. Even according to Revenue's figures, they pay an effective rate of approximately 6%. How is it fair that these multinationals pay tax at 2% or 6% when the people who clean the floors in...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, before the protests that took place at the weekend, the Minister for Finance was reported as suggesting they would be the last rally of the anti-water charges movement. He could not have been more wrong. The Irish revolution for the 21st century has begun. The people, as they rise up off their knees against six years of cruel injustice and unfairness, will not be lying down...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what we are talking about.

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can Deputy Twomey show me a nurse earning more than €100,000?

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The general election might be on the same day.

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most popular slogans chanted by the 200,000 people who took to the streets at the weekend was: "Enda Kenny in your ivory tower, this is called people power." As the Labour Party in the Seanad rebels against the Government over a referendum on Irish Water and as a crisis is gripping the Government in the face of a massive popular rebellion against the hated water tax, should the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A stark position was outlined by the head of the European Central Bank, Mr. Mario Draghi. He referred to the European economy as being on the floor and that it needed a massive investment programme in order to stimulate real economic growth. Notwithstanding the fact that the Government is blowing its own trumpet about successes, there will be no sustained recovery if the European economy...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a little disappointing that the Government has refused to accept what is a modest proposal by Deputy Collins. I commend her on putting forward this motion and on consistently raising the issues of mortgage distress and the need to deal fairly with people who find themselves in this extremely difficult situation. The proposals Deputy Collins has put forward are nothing more than the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if in formulating his budget 2015 tax proposals, he factored in the overall impact of both direct and indirect taxes to ensure fairness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41768/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason his proposed income tax and universal social charge budget measures disproportionately favour those on higher incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41767/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm reports that he is working with US multinationals to design the new knowledge box corporation tax scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41766/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many questions I have about the banking sector are directed more to the Government than to individual banks. However, I have a few questions for Mr. Boucher. Does he accept the proposition that his bank, along with others but his would be at the top of the league table, is profiteering in terms of the interest rates it is charging on loans compared to its European counterparts? This was...