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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it constrains us from doing what we need to do in housing, health, public transport and the environment, etc.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it constrains us from doing those things.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we should tell the EU we need to do these things and if it is not willing to let us do them or it is going to constrain us in doing them, we cannot be part of such a Union. We could see how it responds to that as a start.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly what the Government threatened when the EU dared to touch the 12.5% corporate tax rate. I think it was the Minister who said that could be the one thing that would drive him out. The tragedy is that the only time the Irish Government, and the Minister specifically, threatened Europe with the possibility of leaving or proposed the idea of telling Europe we might leave under certain...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is correct. It was Brian Hayes, MEP. I apologise.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the only thing the Government got tough with the EU on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax wealth and capital more. Let us be specific.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I delve deeper into the question?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I started off by saying that because of these constraints, we are not able to make what any person would conclude to be sound investment for the medium and long term. That was my point. The Minister is acknowledging that investment in the arts is good and brings a return but that we may not be able to do it. The same argument could be made about third level education. Everybody is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. We have-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In every single one of those, we have to give something away in terms of public assets in order to get the investment.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are having to give something to the private sector in O'Devaney Gardens. We discussed this with the Minister the other day. In terms of the planned sites which are publicly owned, in order to get a small bit back we are having to give away a public asset, and the revenue generating potential of that public asset, because of the constraints the Minister is willing to accept, or possibly...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The public housing stock will be less at the end of it. In the medium to long term, the public housing stock, as a proportion of housing stock, will be significantly less.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just one brief comment on that-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to do with the cheque book.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned this earlier. It is the question of raising the level of subvention to public transport to European average levels.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For what it is worth, the bus workers believe the low level of subvention is what is at the back of this dispute. I just want to put that on the record. My question concerns the public sector pension levy and restoration in that regard. In my opinion, it is legitimately a very sore point with public sector workers that, as well as everything else that was imposed on everybody - the USC,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister might send us the graph.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (27 Sep 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the companies owned by ESB; the taxes they paid in the previous tax year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26472/16]