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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the Exchequer. Aggressive tax avoidance, which we appear to be up to our necks in facilitating, is responsible for the gross inequality that was discussed at Davos despite the irony of hob-nobbing with the individuals who are benefitting from that inequality. In all sincerity, does the Taoiseach recognise that this level of wealth inequality results from tax scams like that one...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because they do not pay any tax.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was $25,000 in Davos to eat from a plate.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were no billionaires.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach have drinks with Denis?

European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last few weeks have been another shameful chapter in the period of office of the Government when it comes to solidarity and internationalism with Greece and other people throughout Europe who are suffering under the cosh of austerity. It is really treacherous that the Irish Government has lined up with the austerity bullies of the EU against the Greek people. Last week the Taoiseach...

European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no reward. It is still being told what it can and cannot do in the budget. This is what the IMF said. It is pathetic and treacherous, particularly when we, like the Greeks, are still being forced to pay billions and billions of euros out in interest to these banks which destroyed the European economy and caused this mess in the first place. The Government should be ashamed of itself.

European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should read 1984. He sounds like Big Brother.

European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Watch out for the cyber-terrorists and aliens from outer space.

Topical Issue Debate: School Relocation (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic for debate. To say that Gaelscoil Phádraig in Ballybrack has had a raw deal would be a major understatement. It has been in existence for 20 years. In that time it has been in four different temporary locations. Most of that time, and currently, it has been on a 0.7 acre site with prefabricated buildings, many of which are over...

Topical Issue Debate: School Relocation (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no news there for Gaelschoil Phádraig. It is aware of all that the Minister of State said. This is the fear, that it will extend beyond this year. The situation has got progressively worse for it after a 20 year saga of moving from one place to another. It was in one room without proper windows, then it had two classrooms in another school, then it had to be bussed to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Investigations (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the Siteserv issue and the serious questions raised regarding the disposal of assets, debt write-downs and the management of large loans in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, his views that there is a need for a review or an investigation of the same issues in the National Asset Management Agency, in Allied Irish Banks and in other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the report of the working group on direct provision will be published, in view of the fact that it is expected to be published in June 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24843/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of lone parents currently working part-time who are on rent allowance; the provision that has been made for them to ensure they benefit from increasing their hours of work in view of the loss of the one parent family payment and the fact that 75% of any additional income over €75 of earnings will be deducted from their rent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Taoiseach gave a master class in spin, dishonesty and plain old prejudice against lone parents in his response to questions on the impact of the cuts that the Minister has visited on lone parents since 2012 and that are planned with the discontinuation of the one-parent family payment this July. Despite what the Taoiseach said yesterday, is it not true that the Minister has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it was on the number of lone parents working part-time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not read it correctly.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will show the Minister the figures. The comparisons she makes are entirely dishonest. The real comparison is where were lone parents who were working 20 hours per week on minimum wage in 2012 before the Minister started her cuts and where will they be after July and, worse, after July 2017. In 2012, before the Minister cut the income disregard, a lone parent with one child working 20...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I challenge the Minister directly on those figures and I hope somebody out there watching has the energy to go and check hers against ours. Our figures are spot on. They are an accurate reflection of what has been lost. They are borne out by the CSO figures which show, contrary to what the Minister just said, that the number of one-parent families suffering deprivation has risen from 49%...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My figures are from the CSO and Barnardos.