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An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste did not explain why 26 people under her remit have been suspended without prejudice.

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste will not tell us whether it is in An Garda Síochána. Why was it done?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Reports (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been a full report or if she is planning to commission a report into allegations of abuse and neglect at a home (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15219/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to make recommendations to Cabinet with regard to a review of the congregational indemnity agreement, in view of the revelations concerning the mother and baby home in Tuam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15220/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the 2017 funding for housing adaptation grants will be allocated to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14901/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1312 of 21 March 2017, if she will forward the request for information with regard to seven suspensions of staff at Tusla to Tusla for answer or if she will request the information from the agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15284/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with a lot of the points made on the need to significantly ramp up capital investment and the madness of the EU fiscal rules. Without wishing to score a point, we flagged this at the time of the fiscal treaty and opposed it for that reason. Did the CIF see this coming too?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our main reason was the effect it was going to have on our ability to spend, both in terms of capital and current spending. We described it with a catchphrase, "neoliberal straitjacket". Some of the people who are now rightly complaining supported this neoliberal straitjacket. We need to ramp up infrastructure investment in a whole range of areas. Are CIF members the best people to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. The port tunnel cost far in excess of what we were originally told. The controversial library headquarters in Dún Laoghaire ended up costing some €10 million more than we were originally told and the national children's hospital will go way over budget. How can we have confidence in CIF members when this consistently happens? That is what Joe Public is asking. The State...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I make no bones about it. Is the profit builders take out not just an extra cost? It inflates the cost and it would be cheaper for the State to do these things directly, to build up its own capacity and deliver infrastructure directly. NERI has spoken of a semi-State company but we think a State company should deliver the housing we need. What happened between 2002 and 2008 is proof that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I add a brief follow-up? I do not imagine, short of the socialist revolution or whatever, that we are going to completely get rid of private involvement in construction of infrastructure or housing. Can the construction industry seriously deliver the low-cost housing that is needed? I have many concerns about water infrastructure, energy infrastructure and so on but the most urgent...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to start not with the detail that has been discussed but the bigger picture at stake in all of this. There was a report by Jim Power which received some publicity on Sunday. With all the news of Garda matters and the bus strike, it has been somewhat drowned out. This is very unfortunate because what the report suggests is pretty explosive and makes even the Apple scandal pale in...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We debated quite a bit of this on Committee Stage so I will not delay excessively. I will reiterate briefly the reasons we have tabled a series of amendments to this Bill and more generally why we will, at the end of this process, be opposing this Bill and calling for a vote on it. I indicated this on Second and Committee Stages. This Bill, which will probably go largely unnoticed by...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will leave the more philosophical debate to the next group amendments. The bottom line is that this is a tax loophole, exploiting the rather vague notion of intellectual property, which was at the centre of the double Irish tax scam. This is another tax loophole revolving around the concept of intellectual property, whatever that is. That is why I say it is the double Irish mark two. It...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:In page 14, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:“(3) The Minister may seek the introduction of appropriate categories or sectoral headings in respect of applications and request information from the Controller as to the proportion of applications under each heading.”.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 15, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(h) figures in respect of the geographical or regional distribution of applications,”.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, has amendment No. 3 been passed?

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks. I am pressing amendment No. 4.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy with the way things are going.