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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Professor is saying it is much worse.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the members of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. I do not always agree with their recommendations but I appreciate the work they do in these engagements. The witnesses identify two key vulnerabilities for us, one external and one domestic. My question is about the external one first. This is the one that is often mentioned but is not thought about much beyond that, namely, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to interrupt but my time is short. I appreciate Mr. Barnes's response, which confirms what my fears are. He clearly echoes those.I note two things in passing. It is not Mr. Barnes's responsibility but we should all learn the folly of bailing out the banks, not just for us but internationally. We gave the moneys back to the banks to go off and speculate somewhere else and it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I cut across Dr. Conefrey? The cautious approach partly concerns identifying the revenue sources. However, is it not also a question of determining what the money should be spent on, considering the view that we need to increase capital investment in infrastructure and domestic industrial and enterprise capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is true here also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we come back in again? Are you trying to get rid of us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the public might be mixed on that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The delegates seem to be saying it was what the Government was doing until it went on a splurge with the extra €2 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our resentment in our initial engagements towards the IFAC was that the demand for balancing the books came against a background where they had become unbalanced by the activities of others in circumstances where the can in respect of getting revenue and expenditure back to balance was being carried by those who, by and large, had not put them out of balance or who had not made the decisions....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. The IFAC has said that it is imprudent to spend money the origins of which are uncertain. There is this unexplained jump in corporate tax revenue which was not in the initial budget projections and it would be unwise to merely go on a splurge and spend it. The IFAC has said that the Government is imprudent in this regard. Would it be less imprudent to spend it if one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That increases borrowing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still spending money one does not have, if Mr. Tutty does not mind me saying so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [42433/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a fairly stinging indictment of the strategy and work of the health sub-committee and of this Government's policy on health that the nurses, who want to care for people, feel forced to go out on strike next week because of the utter disaster in emergency departments? Is that not just about the most serious indictment one can have? Today, according to Trolley Watch, there are 411...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not explain why they are going on strike.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a report on his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40155/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he had discussions regarding human rights abuses in Palestine while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40156/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the leaders he met while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40157/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America and the meetings he participated in while there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42434/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she will take to address the issues of very low incomes among arts practitioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43504/15]