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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I have questions for the Minister on three issues, namely, double taxation agreements, the OECD position on corporation tax rates and, briefly, the summer economic statement. On double tax agreements, many people are of the view that if someone is working in two countries, he or she cannot be paying tax in both and that there is a need for an arrangement to be put in place as a result. In...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I will move on to the issue of the OECD position on corporation tax rates. The Minister mentioned in his reply to Deputy Doherty that Ireland is not alone on this issue and is putting its case alongside other small and medium-sized economies. The reports I read indicate eight states currently are strongly opposed to the 15% proposals. Those states are Estonia, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Sri...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: It is early in the process but at this early stage the Minister's Government and the State are standing alongside renowned tax havens like St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados in arguing against these proposals. Does that make the Minister in any way uneasy or embarrassed?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados are tax havens. A comprehensive Zucman study in 2018 stated Ireland was the world’s number one tax haven with an effective tax rate of 4%. What is the Minister’s opinion as to what the effective corporation tax rate is in this State? Zucman stated it is 4%, Deloitte, Matheson and Grant Thornton have all marketed themselves as...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I will leave it at that. Many observers would raise an eyebrow at it being claimed our effective tax is between 10% and 11% but in any case I will park that one. On the issue of the summer economic statement, we are given to understand from press reports this morning that the issue at stake at Cabinet is the question of the public spend on housing. People are currently experiencing the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I hear what the Minister is saying. He is supportive of increasing public spending on housing but the reports we are hearing is there is a difference of opinion in Cabinet as to the extent of the increase that would be put into housing by the State. Is it not the case the Minister is arguing for a lesser amount than some of his Cabinet colleagues?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I will leave it there Chairman. I thank the Minister.

Long-Term Residential Care: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is reported in the Irish Examinerthis evening as saying she plans to report any potentially criminal allegations involving abuse and neglect in nursing homes to the Garda. She repeated the point in her speech. As the Minister of State knows, potential abuse and neglect in HSE nursing homes are already automatically referred both to the Garda and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: What about JobBridge?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [36303/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [37672/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: The caretaker Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. Mark Rutte, said yesterday, "We had poor judgment, which we regret and for which we apologise." In a society with a higher vaccination rate than ours, he rushed a reopening and the cases multiplied by 20 times within a fortnight. The legislation is being rushed through the Dáil and Seanad, and rushed down to Áras an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: The unit deals with the Dáil in progressing the programme for Government. A key challenge is the question of youth unemployment. In that context, I want to ask the Taoiseach about the work placement employment programme, JobBridge 2.0. There will be 10,000 positions for six months with 30 hours of work per week for €306. No doubt the Taoiseach will tell me that amounts to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit of his Department. [37671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 92. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that a drug manufactured by a company (details supplied) will be included in the cannabis access programme; if he will report on the operation of this programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37664/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress in implementing the 2018 National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in particular its proposal to establish 16 specialist hubs in five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37665/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 15 June 2021, the reason an organisation (details supplied) as the reporting organisation representing the four Ghanaian nationals and the four Ghanaian nationals themselves were not informed of his Department’s decision not to proceed with a civil case against their former...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 15 June 2021, the reason the investigation was not concluded within the two year limitation period imposed by section 2B(6) of the Employment Permits Act 2003; the reason neither the complainants nor the referring organisation were informed of the decision not to initiate civil...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 15 June 2021, the reason he omitted to make reference to separate criminal proceedings that were initiated by his Department against the former employer of the four Ghanaians that were about to be heard in the District Court on or around the time of his reply on 15 June 2021; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times he and his predecessors have initiated civil proceedings under section 2B of the Employment Permits Act 2003 on behalf of foreign nationals to whom that section applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37344/21]