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Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We supported an exit from the European Union which had nothing to do with the exit-----

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not support treaties that tied us to mad economic policies and which had crippled the level of capital investment. It is important to remind people of this. On the specific issue of AIB, it is not just that it is the wrong time to sell it off. It should never be sold off. We should use it as a public bank to invest in infrastructure and the strategically important areas of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to ensure Ireland is not fined for failing to reach targets for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21822/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure any future funding model for the national broadcaster will examine the way companies such as (details supplied) and others pay nothing to terrestrial broadcasters for access to their linear channel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21823/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a change in policy to allow grant support and some other financial supports for persons that seek to change educational disciplines or career in order to find employment, even if the level of education in the new discipline or subject they wish to take has already been attained in another discipline; and if he will make a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Dublin Chamber of Commerce for its input at the committee today. There is a great deal to talk about in all of this but I will try to touch on a few things. I welcome the emphasis on joined-up integrated planning, public transport infrastructure and the critical importance of investing. I agree with Deputy Eamon Ryan that such matters are critical. It is possible to provide...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I obviously talk much about the corporate tax regime. One point evident from it is that small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, pay the 12.5% rate but any reasonable observer can see a small number of companies are not paying it. Instead, they are paying about 6%, 7% and maybe 8% tops. Sometimes, they are paying a lot less. This is unfair on SMEs here. If the full rate was paid, it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not if we are talking about increasing capital investment because there are only two ways it can be done. One way is through the fiscal rules, on which there is a consensus that we should do something about it vis-à-viscapital investment. There is another mechanism to increase capital investment, namely, to get the big capitalists to pay a bit more tax, to put it bluntly.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are all singing from the same hymn sheet in agitating for a change in policy around the fiscal rules, we can just as easily agitate and in my opinion we should and I invite the Dublin Chamber of Commerce-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I would say he has flummoxed the Government guys. Ireland being part of and a leading figure in the race to the bottom on corporate tax has now spurred a response from both the Tories in Britain and from Trump who are now engaging in this tax competition. Any advantage we think we may have got from operating a low corporate tax regime could easily be taken from us. To my mind, it begs...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the 50,000 empty houses?

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The HAP scheme is a disaster.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would take an extra space.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot believe the Deputy is impugning the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform last met; and when it is planning to meet next. [20059/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once again, the divisive and dishonest campaign to pit public sector workers against private sectors is under way, this time in the form of the review on public sector pay by the hand-picked group which recently published its report on this issue, thus perpetuating this utterly divisive narrative. I wonder whether this sub-committee dealing with public sector reform believes it should...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Similarly, on the issue of pensions as I understand it, it is outrageous that we will get rid of the pension levy but replace it with a pension levy, that is, the pension levy stays when the emergency, we are told, is well over and public sector workers have paid through the nose for the past nine years for the crimes of others.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Simon.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a solo run.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister Theresa May since a new general election was called in Britain. [20692/17]