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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Planning Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 683. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the advice he would give to a person who is subjected to constant smoke in their garden and through their windows from a neighbouring chimney on a single storey extension, in view of the fact that a planning inspector has confirmed that it is not contravening any planning laws yet is causing great nuisance; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 740. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the advice she would provide to a person who has had an accident in work due to lax health and safety practices and is dissatisfied with the outcome of the Health and Safety Authority's inspection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4471/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Commissioner may have noticed that there is a very significant irony at play in this committee in that the political parties which were the most enthusiastic supporters of the European Union are most resistant to her findings in this matter and those of us who were most critical of the European Union are the most enthusiastic about her findings because some of us believe that there has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But the profits in the branch were not taxed where there was a real company. By the way, I fully agree. To me, it is cut and dried. Frankly, I do not see how anybody could mount a defence on that front.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. I want the €13 billion for this country. I want to understand the nature of Ms Vestager's investigation. Did she question Revenue about its ruling or was it a paper investigation? Surely, as part of her investigation, she questioned Revenue in some shape or form about its ruling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not ascribing motives and not asking Ms Vestager to give an opinion on motives. I am merely asking her if she asked Revenue the reasons it allowed the allocation of profits to entities where there was no economic activity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be quick because I am running out of time. Ms Vestager did not ask it why. Is it her understanding Apple asked for the particular ruling, that it proposed a particular ruling to the Irish Revenue authorities and that they said, "Yes, that is acceptable." Is that how it worked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was not my question. I was simply asking, from her investigation, if it was Ms Vestager's understanding Apple had asked for a particular ruling, to which Revenue agreed. I think she said that in circumstances where state aid might possibly have been given, governments or revenue authorities might ask the European Union whether a ruling had breached state aid rules. Did the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Commissioner and commend her on her work.

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of the general points have been made. I will not go over them except to say that it is utterly unacceptable not to have a complete investigation into all matters pertaining to NAMA so that we can get to the bottom of what has gone on with the vast amount of assets, loans and property for which it has been responsible, and whether it has served the public interest in how it has managed...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope these questions will be answered because they are very serious questions and they deserve investigation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the extreme centre?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Cabinet Committee on European Affairs discussed the issue of the European Commission ruling on Apple's tax affairs in this country? Does the Taoiseach intend having further discussions about the Government's highly reprehensible decision to refuse the €13 billion that the European Commission believes is owed to the Exchequer in Apple taxes after the Commissioner Vestager's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That company was not taxed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has not been lodged yet, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not actually say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She said they were free to make a claim.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2785/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the central discussions at Davos - ironically, given that it is packed full of multi-billionaires and the world's elite - was inequality. One could not make it up. In so far as it was discussed, Oxfam made a shocking presentation revealing that eight billionaires own the same amount of personal wealth as the poorest 50% of the world's population. The presentation made it clear that...