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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Ulster Bank (13 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ulster Bank is more cautious given what happened.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the special barristers panel review of a case (details supplied); the time frame as to when the panel will report back; if the panel or her Department plan to contact the person in relation to the details of the case under review; if she will respond to correspondence and questions submitted some time ago by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Application Numbers (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 288. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-EEA students registered with the Skills and Enterprise Training Academy, known as SEDA College, for March 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44024/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commercial Marketing in Schools (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that it is now 23 years since her Department issued any circular on commercial promotions in schools, her plans to issue updated guidelines so as to protect children from exploitative advertising in school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44017/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commercial Marketing in Schools (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the legal obligation on children to attend school makes them a unique space in society which should remain the same with respect to commercial marketing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44018/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commercial Marketing in Schools (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown on the number of companies currently advertising in Irish schools through various marketing promotions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44019/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commercial Marketing in Schools (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the appropriateness that a bank (details supplied) will be allowed establish commercial branches in secondary schools here and select students to promote its financial products; if so, her views that schools should extend the same rights to all financial institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44020/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commercial Marketing in Schools (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the decoration of a commercial logo to be an appropriate visual art lesson in primary schools; if not, her further views on a promotion (details supplied) wherein children's entries must feature the sponsor's logo prominently in order to be considered valid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44021/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commercial Marketing in Schools (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to Article 3 of the UNCRC which guarantees children the right to an education in which their best interests are paramount in the context of ongoing commercial promotions in schools where the sponsors' interests are to the fore; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44022/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of the Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland budget allocated for promoting English language schools here for 2014-2015; the way marketing targets are agreed with the English as a foreign language industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43856/14]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's response does not fully take into account that there is a need for a radical reconfiguring of the tax system as a whole in order to redistribute wealth because of obscene inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth. That is what is driving people onto the streets and making them so angry about the regressive nature of water charges. Regardless of what the Minister...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is 30%.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Underlying what the Minister said and what we on the left claim is a philosophical difference of opinion translated into tax policy. I would go further than Deputy Doherty’s proposal. In our budget submission, we proposed four bands on salaries over €100,000, the first on incomes between €100,000 and €120,000, the second, €120,000 to €140,000, the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We proposed 45%, 50%, 55% and 60% respectively. The Minister claims this removes incentives and would discourage talented or educated emigrants from coming home. I do not accept this argument. Much of the time when the Minister answers questions on these rates, he talks about a marginal rate of 50% or more. It would be more honest to conduct the argument if we talked about the proportion...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It also includes USC and PRSI.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just let me finish my point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still do not accept those people over €100,000 are struggling.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say they are very wealthy. However, when one gets up to €200,000, we are talking about very wealthy. I am not saying anyone over €100,000 is superwealthy but they are not struggling. Those earning the average industrial wage or below it, which comprises the majority of workers, are really struggling, however. Set against that, if one shifts the tax burden from...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Similarly, in all our budget submissions in recent years, we have proposed a wealth tax. I find it indicative of the priorities of this Government and of previous Governments that when they want to take money from low and middle income earners, they go to extraordinarily lengths to bill them or to find out what means they have in order not to give them something. The most obvious current...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (18 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is correct that much of this is philosophical. There are fundamental differences and there is probably not much point on dwelling on them. Suffice it to say that the notional progressivity of the Minister's budget, as presented in terms of percentages, masks the fact that both increases and decreases in percentages favour higher earners and disadvantage lower earners...