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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree and I accept that point. However, 2,000 out of 70,000 is a pathetic return in terms of social housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My next point follows from this point. I find Mr. McDonagh's concern for NAMA debtors and the possible feelings of discrimination or victimhood they might have a little nauseating. I did not think it was NAMA's job or the job of any public agency to worry about these debtors and developers who bankrupted the country. The idea should be to increase the provision of social housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was a mandate to deliver social housing as well.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were housed already.

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015: First Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for a prohibition on the issue of consent, licences or permits for the exploration, prospecting or leases or other permissions to facilitate Hydraulic Fracturing projects or the exploitation of shale gas from within the State, together with the development of any infrastructure or facilities required for Hydraulic...

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015: First Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish the Ceann Comhairle a very happy Christmas and wish him the very best for the new year. I wish all my fellow Deputies, or adversaries, on the other side of the Chamber a happy Christmas.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputies and adversaries. I wish all the Oireachtas staff, who make life bearable for us in here even if we possibly make it unbearable for them at times, a happy Christmas. The idea of a technological university is one to which everyone would subscribe. Everyone would subscribe to the idea that it should be an option available to the institutes of technology to allow them to upgrade to...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do everything in their power to avoid it. The dogs on the street know it, with the double Irish, and now the knowledge box - any old excuse - and they constantly lobby the Ministers about ways to get out of tax. They are employing accountants left, right and centre to come up with new and intricate mechanisms, in many cases facilitated by the political establishment, to avoid paying...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I am for these companies, which make enormous profits from our young people, putting something back into educating the young people from whom they extract these profits, rather than us paying for the education, and students and teachers contributing to producing educated young people and letting these lads run off with the goodies.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am deadly serious about this.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should be standing up for ourselves and telling these multinationals that they will have to cough up a bit of money to pay for the educated workforce from which they make so much money, with profits that are off the Richter scale. That is not a hyperbolic description of their profits. Based on the productivity per worker in Ireland, it is all made here. Could they please contribute...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the escalation of conflict and military action in Syria, if he will now reconsider allowing the use of Shannon Airport by the United States military; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41200/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Terrorism (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any discussions with British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, in relation to British military action in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44827/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (13 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive and his Department spent on the drug Ritaline and on all psychoactive medication used by children, by generic drug and brand name in each year of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1270/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (13 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 961. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the rationale behind the changes to the hedge cutting and scrub burning dates announced on 23 December 2015, the groups she or her Department met with when considering this change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1238/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all think this is an important issue but it is one that properly would be addressed by Dublin City Council, the National Transport Authority and Luas, all of whom might have some practical role in this. We understand the petitioner has e-mailed Dublin City Council. Therefore, we need to ascertain if the petitioner got a response and, if so, whether the petitioner was satisfied with it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad that we are looking further at this petition as it is an important issue. It follows on from the marriage equality referendum by demanding that we extend equality into other areas of Irish society. The petition is part of a big national campaign which I support and I suspect many of us here support calling for the end of religious discrimination in our schools. The contention of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have no choice because we cannot contact the petitioner. There was a slight jokey element to the petition's wording, so we cannot take it any further. However, there is huge public interest in the suggestion. That is because there is a slightly more serious issue at stake which is how we should pay tribute to, commemorate or honour people in this country who have excelled and done...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance his stance on the European Union investigation into Apple's tax affairs here over recent years, particularly given the potential enormous sums at stake for the Irish Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1345/16]