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Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regardless of when it came about, I am simply reading the report. Perhaps it was in the Irish Independentand so on, but that is what the report said.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They attack us too. Anyway, there were reports to that effect. Even if we accept that it was a legitimate attempt to curtail the disproportionate benefits that might accrue to the people earning in excess of €100,000 per year that would have resulted from cutting the top rate of tax, it did not do enough in that regard because the people earning over €70,000 and certainly...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to go on but these points must be made. The last time rent caps were reviewed, they were increased by 9%. Since then, rents have gone up by 17% in Dublin. The caps are very far behind the curve. Nobody could seriously suggest, given the gap between the 9% increase in the cap and a 17% increase in rents since, that this is not contributing directly to the homelessness and...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The points have been made and we do not need to go over them again. Both Deputy Ruth Coppinger and I would like to press the amendments because a marker must be put down on the issue of poverty, child poverty in particular.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most telling thing in the service plan is the comment of Tony O'Brien, Director General of the HSE, in the executive summary to the effect that it will not be possible to put in place any additional or new service developments. That says it all. Despite fanfare about increased funding, all we have done is allow the €500 million overrun and thereafter is it €80 million or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on 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. [45993/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today's opinion poll, which was disastrous for the Government parties, represents the decisive rejection by the people of the hated water charges, the parties that have tried to implement them and the Bill before us. The people are no longer being fooled. They have been fooled a couple of times by electoral promises and pledges from the Labour Party and Fine Gael, and have seen through the...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: James Connolly will do, Fergus.

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Definitely not.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that the recent prices increases in the cost of public transport will be reconciled with the need to encourage greater use of public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46344/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (4 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans he has or is aware of in terms of maintaining Dun Laoghaire Harbour, County Dublin, as a functioning transport harbour considering the Stena Line has once again been puled out of Dun Laoghaire for the winter months; if he will report on the arrangements for the transition period between now and when the harbour is brought...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is something completely shambolic and surreal about holding a confidence vote in this Government in the Dáil when everybody knows the real confidence vote will take place on the streets tomorrow when, at 1 p.m. at Merrion Square, tens of thousands of people will assemble in the real people's parliament. They will cast a decisive vote of no confidence in this Government.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will vote against the injustice of the water charges and the Government's failure to listen to what the people have said on that issue. They will vote against the equally cruel, unjust and regressive universal social charge and home taxes. They will vote against the cruelty of leaving people needing vital operations on waiting lists for over a year. They will vote against the fact...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the last Economic Management Council meeting took place. [36518/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Economic Management Council has a function, I presume it is to try to set out the economic priorities of this Government, to look at value for money when it comes to big projects and to decide the broad parameters of raising revenue and collecting taxes. I expect that the four senior members of the Government - the Taoiseach and the other three Ministers - come up with recommendations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be a minimum of 50,000 people there. It will be probably be a hell of a lot bigger than that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Deputies that tomorrow is a weekday. It will be probably be a lot bigger than that. For that to happen on a weekday, after the Economic Management Council has signed off on the package I have mentioned, will be an enormous vote of no confidence in the Government and the Economic Management Council, both of which have failed to understand what the people of this country are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not ask Deputy Durkan.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach discussed district meters? Plumbers and people who work in the water infrastructure system tell me-----