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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been informed that the Teaching Council has approximately €13 million in cash and that this is money paid to it by teachers. Apparently, the Teaching Council purchases property with money paid to it by teachers, which property it then rents out. That is pretty bizarre and appears to me to be a pretty strange thing for a council to do. Perhaps consideration should be given to...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is relevant to a possible amendment that could have been included in what is an amendment to the Teaching Council Act. This Bill is amending legislation of the primary legislation. It is something to consider.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am flagging my intention to do so now and alerting the Minister to the issue of the Teaching Council having €13 million with which it is purchasing property.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was informed of this.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If it has €13 million surplus, what is it doing with it?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful if the Minister could do so. She might also look into the matter.

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Wallace on bringing this Bill forward. I also commend some of the people who have been campaigning for years on the issue of neutrality, trying to safeguard it and to campaign against the steady erosion of that neutrality and the stealth push by the political establishment in this country to involve us in military adventures, primarily those headed by the United States and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his views on a recent suggestion that the Economic Management Council should not be retained past the period of the fiscal crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5534/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions held with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, recently in relation to Ireland's corporate tax rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4357/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Investigations (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held an investigation, or plans to hold an investigation, into allegations of widespread abuse of the relevant contracts tax 1 sub-contracting regime in the construction industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Data (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up-to-date figures on the total earnings of the following income categories: the top 1%, 10% and 20%, indicating for each category the number of earners; the total earnings; the average earnings; the total amount of income tax paid, in absolute and percentage effective tax rate terms, including universal social charge and pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for my late arrival. One has to bi-locate and tri-locate in this place when one is in a small party. Having listened to some of the discussion, I have not fully developed an expert understanding of what is being discussed so I am on a learning curve. However, I would be very anxious and suspicious about all of this. The labyrinthine and opaque world of international finance is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----is the pretty big retrenchment in investment, here and generally across Europe in the aftermath of the crash? Those with money are very nervous about where they put it and they do not really want to invest it in the real economy. So we try to cajole them into investing in the real economy. To facilitate that and encourage them, and I heard mention of capital gains taxes and all that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One can chase after them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses have not allayed my fears at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I make another point?

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We discussed this on Committee Stage and I have submitted another amendment, which attempts to take on board some of the defence the Government side gave when it came to the concerns that were raised by us at that stage. The Government said that there is, or can be, difficulty in getting qualified people to be medical assessors on a permanent, full-time basis, and for that reason they needed...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not quite sure, given the Minister of State's response and the fact that he seems to accept the points we made-----

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He suggested that his objective was the same as ours in terms of the issue of concern in that he is trying to get full-time people, and I accept this. I am not entirely sure why the Minister of State will not accept what I think is a reasonable compromise amendment, because it would set it out clearly in the legislation that while the option is retained to use agency people where they are...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, line 6, before "employed" to insert the following:"where the Minister is unable to engage directly a registered medical practitioner, and only where this is the case,".