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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of abolishing the universal social charge for income earners earning less than €35,000 per year; of reducing the charge by 50% for income earners earning between €35,000 and €70,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32961/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of research and development tax allowances or credits, in terms of corporate tax foregone, for each year from 2010 to the latest available figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32962/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 296. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost in terms of revenue foregone of abolishing the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33391/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 297. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or the Revenue Commissioners have any estimate of the tax gap between the revenue actually collected each year and what it may have collected if it had greater resources available to it to pursue tax owed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33393/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 399. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the circumstances in which a medical card can be backdated and cover medication costs for an applicant whose medical card has expired and has not been renewed. [32726/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Yield (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual revenue derived from the non-principal private residence tax in the last year of its operation, before it was replaced by the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33392/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Application Numbers (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, for each of the past 24 months, the number of households on local authority housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32960/15]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Wallace should not be pessimistic.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question of climate change is simply too important for there not to be the fullest possible scrutiny and oversight of mitigation plans and of the actions to be taken to reduce CO2 emissions. I do not see why the Minister should resist these amendments, of which mine is amendment No. 50, which all make the same point that these plans need to be assessed and scrutinised by the entire...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's attitude to these amendments sums up why the political system is so discredited and why people are so alienated from it. I am surprised he is shaking his head because the language the Government parties used when they were elected about democratic revolution was used precisely because they knew that the slaughtering the previous Government received at the polls was at least in...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is telling that some of the amendments tabled by the Opposition that were specific in terms of targets for CO2 emissions reductions were ruled out of order on the basis that they would be a charge on the Exchequer. I know it has nothing to do with the Minister, but I find that fact interesting, because that tells its own story. The Government does not want specific targets in the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because they cannot make enough profit.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have not even met them for this year.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Craig is still on the beach in Killiney along with seven or eight other people.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would take four years.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This amendment relates to the key question of targets so that we can chart whether we are making concrete and tangible progress towards reducing CO2 emissions or whether our mitigation plans for reducing emissions are just aspirational general policy objectives and not really measurable in terms of real improvements and reductions. This goes to the heart of the matter we debated on Committee...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made the historical point once before and it is always a point that strikes me very forcefully, so I will make it again as I think it very relevant to the debate about climate change and the future capacity of our society to sustain itself. The historical point is this. The reason the great civilisations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, which were the first great civilisations...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: True.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening to the scientists.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the slaves who died making them.