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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: President Trump is a dangerous and pathological liar and I do not give any credence to those claims. Does it concern the Taoiseach that Ireland is now a watchword for corporate tax avoidance by big multinational companies and for the race to the bottom on corporate tax? President Trump is simply using the low effective rate - the 0% effective rate on big multinational companies like Apple -...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not until 2020.

Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The deafening silence or, worse, tacit complicity of the EU and Irish Government regarding what is now a dangerous and escalating situation in Catalonia is really quite shocking. The Rajoy government is threatening to invoke Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which has never been invoked before, to disband the regional government and impose direct rule on Catalonia, against a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which he plans to address the staffing shortages in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department's allocation in budget 2018 will see the issue of chronic low pay addressed in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Health when the new support scheme for IVF will be available; the assistance available until then; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44198/17]

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I disagree on that.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not know the pilots are coming in.

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak about a promised report in legislation. When the Social Welfare Bill was passed last year, Deputy Bríd Smith had sought an amendment seeking a report on the inequalities faced by pensioners, which we have discussed this week. That affects 35,000 pensioners who are being robbed of a full pension entitlement. At the time, the current Taoiseach and then Minister, Deputy...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is it?

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “equality of treatment between men and women in relation to pension contributions; and” and substitute the following: “— restoration of the State pension age to 65, and where a worker wishes to work after retirement age such a decision should not be driven by economic necessity.”

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the blocks preventing the immediate ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44195/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Declarations (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to mark the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44196/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure a person should go through if they require surgery in another country; the way in which they receive a referral for the surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if the regulations on health insurance require that a health insurance company here must take into account the number of years that a person returning here has had with an international health insurance company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44353/17]

Other Questions: Economic Data (24 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would be banjaxed then, Bernard.

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance the figures for 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017 for the tax revenue from the RCT1 tax head; the gross figure and the figure net of refunds, deductions and allowances in the construction sector; the number of construction workers to which this relates; the comparative figures for the same years for PAYE workers in the construction sector; if he is...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on recent efforts to clamp down on bogus self-employment; the number of workplace raids the Revenue Commissioners have participated in with the joint investigations unit; the nature and consequence of these raids; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44722/17]

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the main methods through which unscrupulous cowboy builders and building contractors deny construction workers proper pay and conditions and rob the taxpayer of, I would argue, tens if not hundreds of millions of euro is bogus self-employment, which is a euphemism for tax fraud. I wish to ascertain the latest net figures from the RCT1 tax head for construction workers. How many...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today?