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Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to start on a positive note because we are often accused of being naysayers.

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. That is good. It must be the new politics at work again. I welcome this discussion on the summer economic statement. While I would not say the new budgetary process is revolutionary, it will certainly represent an improvement if it works out. I hope that rather than being something tokenistic or decorative, this process will mark a serious attempt to open up the budgetary process and...

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not go too far.

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was vaguely amused to hear the former Minister, Deputy Burton, asking what Fine Gael will do now that it does not have the left-wing influence of the Labour Party to mitigate its right-wing neoliberal tendencies. The irony is that in its first few weeks in power without the Labour Party, Fine Gael has been forced to do left-wing things that the Labour Party was not willing to do in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if the State expended public money on legal or other services; if so, the amount, in the context of the current European Union investigation into a company's tax dealings (details supplied) here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17505/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he intends to take action to tackle corporate tax loopholes and address the very low effective tax rate being paid by many large corporations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17503/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he is considering abolishing the local property tax and reverting to the direct funding of local authorities through progressive taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17504/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance what he will do if the EU Commission decides in the next month, as is being reported, that a company's tax dealings (details supplied) breached state aid rules; if he will recover the estimated €17 to €19 billion in unpaid corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17501/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he is considering abolishing the local property tax and reverting to the direct funding of local authorities through progressive taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17504/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance what he will do if the European Union Commission decides in the next month, as is being reported, that a company's tax dealings (details supplied) breached state aid rules; if he will recover the estimated €17 to €19 billion in unpaid corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17501/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the motor insurance companies are operating a regime of age discrimination with increased premiums for the young and the old and whether such discrimination is illegal under the Equal Status Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17806/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for reversing the public service pension reductions introduced during the crisis in line with the Fine Gael election manifesto; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17807/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Coppinger. The sheer dishonesty of the "Remain" and pro-EU camps in this debate, both before the vote and now after the vote, is breathtaking and was captured succinctly by Deputy Howlin's comments where he said that, the "Remain" camp, much of the political elite and much of the media have tried to dishonestly characterise what is at stake in this vote by...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will get to that. Was there any acknowledgment that these people were behind the financing of the hugely resourced "Remain" campaign? What is their agenda? Is it what is in the interests of the millions across Europe, for a better life for them, to protect refugees, to build a social Europe that Deputy Howlin said he wants? No, the Deputy must have a case of bad amnesia if he thinks that...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I told the Deputy what I thought of Farage and Johnson.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legislation relating to the maintenance of privately owned trees when they endanger the private property of another person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18057/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce rent to buy schemes or other affordable house purchase schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18140/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his detailed funding plans for 50,000 local authority houses; if he envisages that all of these houses will be managed by local authorities given the recent Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18450/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (28 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the home acquisition programme, by homes purchased by local authorities, by amount paid, by amount invested in homes before letting them, by homes managed by local authorities, for each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18451/16]