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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State referring to a transfer from an IREF to one of the other entities? Is that what he means?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What if these entities and unit trusts were never IREFs but were involved in property? That is my question. Is that possible?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is there an exception? I do not understand it. Why does the Minister of State's note indicate that it will not apply to them? The note in the explanatory memorandum states: "The withholding tax will not apply to certain categories of investors such as pension funds, life assurance companies and other collective investment undertakings." What are these other collective investment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We can agree on that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I understand, but I am not entirely sure of it. I understand that the amendment refers to any entity that has 25% invested or that could be deemed to be in some way related to property. If that is the case, then the withholding tax applies. Then, we have another category to which, we are told, unless I have misunderstood what is being said, withholding tax does not apply. What the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a simple question. Does a unit trust that has interest in property pay the tax? The Minister of State listed unit trusts among the examples. Are they going to pay withholding tax?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I have made all my points but I have one last question which is more generally on withholding tax on things other than property. Are there other areas in financial services generally where we should be imposing withholding tax or where similar situations could arise? We have discovered how some entities ended up paying no tax at all. Now, this has been identified in the area of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or Cyprus.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, is in Marrakesh today making an address to the UN summit on climate change. The major concern at that summit is around the dangerous pledges of US President-elect Trump to tear up the Paris climate change treaty, thereby threatening global action to deal with climate change. There...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us are going to the US embassy to protest against Mr. Trump and his agenda tomorrow. I would like to know if this Government is going to stand up against his anti-environmental agenda.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to say to Trump?

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to equal pay for all teachers regardless of the date they started working in view of recent school closures due to industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35194/16]

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Discrimination in employment is illegal. There was a long struggle, going way back to the 1830s in the United States and right up to the 1970s in this country, for equality in employment and to make it unacceptable to discriminate against any category of person. In recent weeks, however, teachers angrily protested and took strike action because the Minister refused to commit to the basic...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Minister.

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not very helpful to engage in a disingenuous response to a straightforward question about increments. We all know that there are increments. There have always been increments in the public sector and people move up the pay scale. The issue is that there are two different pay scales. In fact, there are three different pay scales for people who have exactly the same training and...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should not give the money argument. There would be money available if some vulture funds and super-profitable corporations were made to pay their taxes. The issue at stake is discrimination. The Minister referred to negotiation. What is there to negotiate in terms of ending inequality? There is nothing to negotiate. It is fair enough for one to negotiate pay increases and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider changing the way in which pupil-teacher ratio, PTR, is organised to ensure that no class in any school is above the agreed PTR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35193/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider employing a liaison officer in hospitals for victims of institutional abuse (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35295/16]

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have 20 minutes; ten minutes for me and ten for Deputy Coppinger. According to the Minister, the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016 is designed to ensure every child is treated fairly and that the way in which schools decide on applications for admission is structured, fair and transparent. It does none of those things. It does not go anywhere near delivering on those...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of council houses owned and managed by local authorities that will be delivered in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 under the Rebuilding Ireland plan; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35506/16]