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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (16 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing free school books to all primary and secondary school children in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48525/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (16 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the avenue for complaint that exists for a naturalised citizen when they are constantly being stopped by immigration officers when coming through Irish airports (details supplied). [48481/17]
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same issue, as a member of the Business Committee, I noted that when I and others agreed the Order of Business last week, we were not to know the Taoiseach would be forced to admit he had misled this House or given false information to it on what the Tánaiste knew and when she knew it regarding what was, let us remember, an absolutely scurrilous campaign to try to destroy Mr....
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is absolutely no point in accepting a proposal for the Business Committee to meet again unless we get a commitment from the Government here and now that at the meeting it will facilitate a debate, statements and responses from the Tánaiste on the matters surrounding this issue. As to the legal impediments, I am sure that if we agree this week - it has to be this week, ideally...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the progress report on A Programme for a Partnership Government. [49113/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government states "Our approach to governing will be clearly seen in how we address the issues of housing and homelessness." Given that was stated as a priority and a key indicator of what the Government is like, what are we to make the series of statements coming from the Taoiseach, the Minister of State, Deputy English, the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, Conor Skehan of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true but the Government is not building on its land.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That does not get the Government off the hook for not building council houses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his invitation to President Donald Trump to visit here. [49114/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if Ireland's corporation tax rate or the possible reduction in the USA corporation tax rate and the proposal that the European Union will introduce digital taxation were discussed at his meetings in the United States of America. [49115/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are more reasons than I can think of to withdraw the invitation to Donald Trump to this country. The Taoiseach's standard response when we ask him about this is to say our relationship with the American people is more important than that with any individual president. I do not want to hear that again because it is dodging the issue of Donald Trump, his policies and what he is doing....
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:In page 8, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “3. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the cost and implications of abolishing the Universal Social Charge for everyone earning less than €90,000 per annum.”. This amendment seeks a report on abolishing the universal social charge for...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the Minister's confusion about the criticism of the tax reductions because different things are being said by different people in this House. To clarify, we did not criticise the Government at any point for proposing tax changes to low and middle earners. Sinn Féin and the Labour Party did, as did others, and they are entitled to do so. Our criticism was that those tax...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But it is true.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt Deputy Burton.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Labour Party stood over the USC but working people hate the USC. We are not proposing that working people should not pay, as they do, the 20% tax on the first €30,000 or €40,000 of their income and then 40% over and above that but we are saying they should not pay the USC, which was an austerity tax. We are saying that getting rid of that for people earning less than...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We hold on to those policies.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is not discussed anymore, which I mentioned in my initial contribution, is wealth and income redistribution. We can argue from budget to budget about marginal moves this way or that way and in so doing not see the wood for the trees. By that I mean a staggering growth in the gap between rich and poor and a staggering growth in the differential between the highest earners and the lowest...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will move on to that later.