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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hundreds.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would say they would have been above that annual total amount.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, if they did so, particularly in an area such as dance where there is innovation, change and development and which is not static, would they-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that 80% of the interest?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister seems to be giving a get out of jail card to people involved in deliberate tax avoidance. If the boycott campaign against the water charges does not succeed in bringing about their abolition, in the next budget or the one after that will he adopt a similar attitude towards the penalties the Government plans to impose on water charges? That would be consistent with the logic he...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the same latitude be shown if people decide, as a protest against water charges, to boycott them for a year or so to see if they can secure the abolition of water charges? If they do not succeed when two years have elapsed will the Minister say "Fair enough, we will not bother penalising you. You had a crack at it but it did not work out so we are going to go soft on you to get you...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is. If he can direct Revenue then he can direct Irish Water.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a regressive tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It definitely is a regressive tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it definitely is a regressive tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 93: 93. In page 119, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:Amendment of section 10(A) of Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 92.The Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 is amended in section 10(A) by substituting the following subsection for subsection (3)— "(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) and (2) and subject to subsection (4), the Minister for the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the new Chairman of the committee for his excellent chairing.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank also all the officials for their work. Notwithstanding the fact that we disagree on quite a number of issues, I thank the Minister for his succinct and sometimes witty defence of the Finance Bill.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 3) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's gymnastics on the issue of privatisation cannot mask the reality that, with the establishment of Irish Water and a charging regime, privatisation has already started. Its assurances are completely worthless. It should consider the reality of Irish Water. Some €500 million is to go mostly to Denis O'Brien's GMC/Sierra to install meters. Some €175 million will...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Government Members say they listened to what people were saying in recent weeks. Following the package of proposals announced by the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, yesterday, it is absolutely clear this is not true. All roads now lead to the demonstration organised by the Right2Water campaign, for which I am a member of the steering committee, for 10 December. The Minister for Public...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any side meeting he had concerning climate change at the UN summit in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44780/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change last met. [44781/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change and the green economy last met. [44906/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Such was the contrast between the Taoiseach’s noble aspirations for urgent action on climate change in his UN speech and his attendance at the EU summit a month later to seek concessions to reduce Ireland’s contribution to climate change improvements, one environmentalist commentator accused him of having had the political equivalent of a lobotomy between the UN conference and...
- - Human Rights Budgeting: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.