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- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I have a response?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is selling the land.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a lack of supply of council houses.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Six years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met; and when it will next meet. [17912/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One very important part of our infrastructure is ports and harbours. I want to know if the Government has discussed the very long-running saga of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. The Harbours Act, brought forward by the Government, suggests that the harbour company will be transferred to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. This has still not happened although most other harbour...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an infrastructure question.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pull the other one.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those in Fianna Fáil have exposed their true colours. They are for water charges. They sign up with the troika for water charges. They commission reports from PwC detailing the plan for water charges. Then, a mass movement is mobilised on the streets against the charges. Then, they are against water charges. Then, the pressure comes on from Fine Gael and they want to leave back...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It means saying what suits people when it suits them, as opposed to the words of people who are accused of being populist and who have a consistent principled position of opposition to water charges. I am referring to people who stick to that position and who build movements to vindicate that position. The same people have forced at least some of that position on a reluctant and resistant...
- Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes that: — 937,000 breath tests that never occurred were falsely recorded on the Police Using Leading Systems Effectively (PULSE) system, and that the existence of a problem in this regard was communicated to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister repeat that point?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister for his illuminating responses so far. I do not want to labour the past history too much except in so far as it is actually relevant to what we do from here, but one of the things that there seems to be across the board recognition of, certainly on this committee, is that we have had a dangerously low level of capital and infrastructure development investment for some...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pre-tax corporate profits are about €95 billion. That is from the last figures that I saw but maybe that could be corrected. We are getting about €6 billion back in revenue, which is roughly 6% on pre-tax profits. Figures from earlier years show the gross pre-tax profits from before deductions and allowances were about €70 billion. That is an extraordinary jump in...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It works out at about 6%. Does the Minister not think we should look at this? We have spoken of insulating ourselves from the effects of Brexit but surely the real lesson is to diversify our economy. Our small open economy, which could also be referred to as the "leprechaun economy", is making us very vulnerable. The productivity of the Irish worker is off the Richter scale, in fantasy...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should not have taken on that debt.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not. I never suggested borrowing.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I pointed to the capital area.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not theory - it is money.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not.