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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is less than that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, €90,000 each.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a proposal which Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has taken up. There are different ways of delivering housing and these are high specification, environmentally advanced housing units. Any study in this area needs to examine all the different models of delivering housing and make a comparison between them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, Minister------

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is related to the finances of the State. The reason I put forward the proposal is that we need the study to be comparative. I am referring to not only council housing but affordable housing. If it turns out that we can deliver affordable housing for purchase much cheaper by the State providing it directly, then we need to know that as part of any serious study.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to see the study.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is also a problem in my area.

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will do me. I apologise that I have not had a lot of time to listen to the discussion because I have been tied up at the finance committee. I will raise a number of issues which may or may not have been raised already. Some of them will certainly have been raised but two of them may not have been. On an issue that probably has been raised, I want to add my voice to the chorus of...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am done.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that have benefited from the special assignee relief programme for each of the years 2012 to 2015; the amount which was claimed for each year; the amount of tax foregone for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish special purpose vehicles, SPVs, registered with the Revenue Commissioners for tax purposes; the number of SPVs that operate in a tax-neutral fashion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34054/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ordinary workers do not have that right.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an example of there being one law for the rich - in this case, big business - and another for ordinary workers. An ordinary person cannot claim that because he or she had large debts in one year that cost him or her a fortune, the amount of tax paid the following year should be reduced.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly the point I am making. It is not acceptable that there is one law for workers and another for business. It is even less acceptable that it applies to bailed out banks, over policies of which we do not exercise any control. The Minister might have an argument if he exercised some control over their lending and investment policies and their treatment of distressed mortgage...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made the main point but I add to it the wider question of the various deductions and allowances that a bank or any other corporate entity is allowed to avail of to write down its taxable income. It is a scandal that is waiting to be uncovered when we dig into the detail. We need a forensic analysis of every single one of these headings under which a bank or any other corporate entity...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are doing it under section 110.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 70:In page 23, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:"14. The Minister for Finance is to order a study to be carried out on the operation of Relevant Contracts Tax, particularly in relation to rise in self-employment in the construction industry, and is to report to the Dáil within six months of the enactment of this Bill on the findings of the study."....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A what industry?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I am glad to hear the Minister acknowledge that there is some problem. By the way, I have raised specifics. I cannot spend my days and weeks wandering around building sites conducting spot checks, so I am dependent on calls from construction workers. I have raised specific cases in the Dáil when I have been tipped off by construction workers about particular sites. For example,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made most of my points. There is enough opinion even in this committee, never mind the various people who have raised it beyond this committee such as ICTU, unions and construction workers, to merit the review we are asking for, regardless of people's opinions. The Minister said that construction is reporting growth in all areas and has grown consistently for the past three years....