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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will consider what the Minister has said and reserve the right to bring the amendment back on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We oppose several sections of this Bill that amount to incentives for landlords. We are not happy with the thrust of the Government's policy on increasing the availability of affordable rental property under whatever guise, publicly or privately provided. Tax incentives for landlords and developers are not the right approach. It has not succeeded, and rather than continue to forgo taxes in...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know the Minister thinks it is not true but I think it is.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is possible but the problem is we are not growing the economy. We have leprechaun growth. There is a student in Trinity College Dublin who is researching a PhD on corporate tax. He gave a presentation at the weekend which was quite stunning even for someone who has been as critical of the corporate tax regime as I have. I was pretty amazed. He showed a graph that stripped out growth...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will see. Much as the Minister can get the laughter and he is a very witty character, there is no doubt about it. The problem is that Ireland is the laughing stock of the international scene because we record growth rates which bear absolutely no relation to the real economy or the lived reality of human beings in Ireland. I would not say they would be sharing the joke. In fact they...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sympathetic to the issues Deputy Donnelly has raised, but in trying to develop something that would assist people in these circumstances, it must be tightly managed so that it is not subject to abuse or exploitation or become another loophole through which people can profit. If it were not done properly or set up with that danger in mind, it could be open to abuse. That said, I am...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform has met; and if he will provide its forward schedule of meetings. [33563/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very curious to know what exactly this committee is doing in the area of inequality, with which it is tasked to deal. It seems to me, particularly given recent events such as the election of Mr. Trump in the US and what many people are calling the rise of extreme populism, that the question of tackling inequality is central to addressing inequality. The political establishment, in all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One second.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. All of these factors-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be finished in a second.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle had not interrupted me, I would be finished by now. My point is that the extremities of inequality that have grown in the United States in recent years are mirrored and echoed here under the Government's watch and need to be addressed as a matter of urgency.
- European Defence Agency: Motion (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.
- European Defence Agency: Motion (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While the two particular aspects of the EDA we are talking about here are relatively innocuous, on the face of it, I have a problem with the agency itself for the reasons that have just been alluded to. I am against the arms industry. There is simply no justification for the disgusting arms industry. The EDA was previously known as the European Armaments, Research and Military Capabilities...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all companies involved in contracts for direct provision, including moneys paid to these companies each year over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34854/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for changing the system of direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34853/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans a referendum on the issue of equal access to schools. [28714/16]
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be dealing with them later, but we have proposed amendments, apropos some of the discussion we are having, to the effect that if even 1% of an investment is in Irish property, it should be subject to this tax and, we argue, more. The rate of withholding tax should be in the region of 90%, not 20%. The logic behind it is that there has been a really disastrous error on the part of...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman was shaking his head as if he was-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the problem?