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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Migration Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is becoming increasingly apparent that there are shortages of skilled workers in a number of areas. I am forever hearing that the problem in dealing with the housing crisis is capacity, by which we mean the capacity of the local authorities to have skilled workers who can build houses. There are capacity problems in the health service. I am referring to qualified health workers such as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Migration Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it hard to get my head around that 1979 peak, given the rather conservative attitudes towards sex the person in question had.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Migration Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The statistics do not break down those leaving by trade but by whether they are at work, unemployed, students or other. By far the biggest cohort is the “at work” category. Those working, who have come out of college or school, discover, as have the nurses with whom I was protesting outside St. Vincent’s hospital, that they have to leave, although they would like to...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning for social and affordable housing on the Shanganah site since it was closed down as a prison and transferred to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, before I was even elected to the Dáil in 2011. It is a matter of immense frustration to me, to the people on the housing list and the people in the area that a publicly owned site is sitting there, which is...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, the Shanganagh Castle site could deliver 540 social and affordable homes. I have been campaigning on the issue for six or seven years, but nothing is happening. Two of my colleagues, Councillors Lisa Halpin and Hugh Lewis, put forward the first motion calling for social and affordable housing on the site. There is cross-party support on the issue. The question now is whether...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Ministers please just do it and involve us?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of SPVs registered here in each of the past three years; the amount of tax paid by these companies; the amount of tax foregone due to particular tax breaks for SPVs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21489/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if all information with regard to tax foregone by REITs since their establishment will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21492/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a minimum effective corporate tax rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review corporate tax reliefs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21491/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Review (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the local property tax and its impact on increasing wealth inequality here will be produced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21488/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 429 of 1 May 2018, the number of the 3,423 families in receipt of WFP in the public sector in each area, section or department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21587/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the last point made by Mr. Coffey because it deals with one of the issues I wanted to raise with him. Is the intangible assets issue not a big scam in the light of the higher contributions the Irish people have to pay to the European Union? As stated by Mr. Coffey, companies get to write off gross profits resulting from these intangible assets as an allowance. They can...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what they do. They make up the price.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How are the assets valued?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They can put any value they like on them. It appears that the value they put on them is just enough to make sure they do not pay any tax. Effectively, they write their own tax bills, but we then make additional EU contributions which are based on gross trading profits, rather than taxable income which is zero.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will agree to disagree with Mr. Coffey on the first point. This is akin to Richard Boyd Barrett setting up a company and then setting up a subsidiary and calling it Richard Boyd Barrett 2, following which one charges the other for the brilliant idea and claims a tax deduction on the basis of it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: God help us.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will move on from that issue. I thank Mr. Coffey for the graph which is very helpful in getting to the heart of matters. Even if I do not always agree with his interpretation of the facts, I thank him for setting them out. For me, the big issue is the spectacular rise in gross trading profits we have witnessed in recent years and which doubled between 2011 and 2015. To me, the dirty...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome Mr. Coffey using technical language to describe my general accusation against corporations as being tax evaders, but he is saying in a nice way that we need to examine this issue. I agree. The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on it and Mr. Coffey has reinforced the point about the over-reliance on a small number of corporations and that we can only be sure of this...