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Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to take this sacred cow out of Irish politics. The suffocating consensus on the question of this country's 12.5% rate of corporation tax has dominated the Irish political landscape to the extent that we cannot talk about touching it. It seems that we cannot possibly dream of increasing corporate taxes. I suggest that this terrible consensus has played a key role in spearheading the...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a notion of legitimate tax competition underpinning the Government's view. I ask the Minister and anybody who is open-minded on this to consider the following question. How is it that in the 1950s, 1960s and right up to the 1970s, we could afford the likes of social housing while in Britain they could afford the National Health Service? We had expansion of a public health system...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We had houses.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Risk Assessment (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his input into the publication of the national risk assessment 2016 overview of strategic risks. [35197/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the numbers of public sector workers counted as wholetime equivalents across each sector; the way in which it compares year on year since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36532/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the demographic changes over the years since 2008 and the way that has impacted on requirements for numbers of public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36533/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to add my voice to the comments pointing to the urgency and importance of that. I welcome the fact that-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry. In that case, I will raise another matter. The disability equality (miscellaneous provisions) Bill involves the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is on the legislative programme and is listed in the programme for Government. The Tánaiste can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that she suggested that the Bill would be in...

Business of Dáil (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will make this brief. Earlier it was essentially suggested that if we had spoken less in the debate on the Finance Bill last night, we would not have this problem. I object to that logic because we have a job - a solemn responsibility, I argue - to scrutinise legislation, in particular something as important as the Finance Bill. Any suggestion we should have hurried things up to avoid...

Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, last week when he telephoned me. In that call the Minister suggested the outline of the committee, on the basis that there would be fair representation of all the Dáil groups and that there would be one Fianna Fáil and one Fine Gael representative from the Seanad and two others. On that basis I said that I would have to take the proposal...

Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That begs the question if it is a stitch-up. We want an open debate. We want this committee to decide its own plan of action, its own terms of reference and it should be selecting its own Chairman. The position holder should not be selected in a backroom deal between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and it should not override the proper proportionality of representation that should come...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like Deputy Smith, I met Lillian and Jean. It immediately chimed with me because, just that week, another woman, Helen, came to my clinic and her story adds another layer of complexity, injustice and discrimination to the story that Deputy Smith has so articulately presented that faces a whole cohort of mostly women. It illustrates the point well. Ms McLennon reached retirement age...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to find it for the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She may have worked in the public service.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] - Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I often get a sense of the surreal when I am in this Chamber because of the common disconnect between the assertions and statements of this Government and the reality, outside in the real world, to which those statements relate. On no issue is that feeling more acute than on the issue of Ireland's supposed military neutrality and the repeated assertions of the Minister of State at the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a commitment to full restoration of pay to public sector workers that experienced pay reductions of up to 20% between 2008 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a person on a low income such as a social protection disability payment should be charged for every bank transaction in a bank (details supplied) while others on higher incomes are charged little or no fees; his further views on whether this is social discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36633/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prescribed low protein foods are required to prevent neurological damage and to supplement the diet of adults and children with phenylketonuria, PKU; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that no new low protein products have been added to the long-term illness card list in more than six years;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (29 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if traffic offences are taken into consideration for job applications requiring Garda vetting with local authority leisure centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37180/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Conditions (29 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the planning and environment regulations regarding environmental impact assessments in the regulatory framework here has been amended to comply with the EU directive, as was indicated by the previous Minister (details supplied), to remove obstacles to a foreshore licence application by providence resources to...