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Other Questions: Tax Compliance (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The EU Commission suspects that Apple owes this State up to €19 billion in taxes. It suspects that Apple evaded those taxes. That money could be used to solve our housing and hospital crises and to build the water infrastructure that this country needs without a requirement for water charges. It seems that the Minister does not want this money, however. Why does he not want it,...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The dogs on the street know that companies like Apple and other fantastically wealthy multinationals have used every means and mechanism available to them in this country and all over the world to avoid paying billions of taxes that are needed by this State and other states to fund the provision of services and infrastructure. The Minister is telling us that if the EU Commission finds that...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we had listened to the dogs on the street during the boom period, we might have avoided the disastrous crash. The OECD and the European Commission are finally catching up with the dogs on the street when it comes to the multinationals that are doing their best to avoid paying tax and thereby starving states of billions in revenue that is needed for services and infrastructure. It is...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those two things work together.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth Rate (14 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance given warnings by bodies such as the International Monetary Fund of a likely global recession, growing signs of a slowdown in the global economy and the stock market crisis in China, if his growth projections over the coming number of years are realistic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1344/16]

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have been recategorised.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is sufficiently robust oversight in relation to State procurement and contracts to ensure that all those contracted to do works or to provide services to the State are fully compliant in areas such as tax, social protection, health and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Provision (19 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the dramatic reduction in the number of public servants since 2008 has impacted adversely on the provision of public services and if a major recruitment drive is needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1942/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Living Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if we need to establish the living wage of €11.50 as a new minimum wage to combat low pay and the phenomena of the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2095/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions he will take to address zero-hour and low-hour contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2096/16]

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I slightly disagree with Deputy Crowe, although I generally agree with his analysis.

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing to recommend TTIP, the Trade in Services Agreement, TISA, the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, CETA, the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement or any of these so-called free trade treaties. They are nothing more than the next phase in the corporate takeover of economic life with a very serious consequence for democracy, essentially bypassing and subverting normal...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (21 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of suggestions and examples of other countries where reforestation of the uplands with native species is a key measure in mitigating flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a dedicated unit focused on ensuring native forestry is used as a climate change mitigation measure, given recent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2206/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned closure of the Coolevin unit in St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park in County Dublin, including the rationale for the closure and the alternatives that will be offered to the patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2551/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the European Union Council meetings he attended in December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1935/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Much as the Government wishes to trumpet its success, stability and the so-called turnaround of the economy, the issue of the odious debt heaped on the back of this country and its citizens, the terrible cost that has imposed on our economy and people and the threat it represents to the economy continues to return. Has the Taoiseach read the most recent report from the European Commission,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The previous discussions have all been very general.