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Other Questions: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the response and the aspiration expressed. There can be no doubt that if we do not provide the resources and supports for teenagers and young people then all the talk about youth employment guarantees will mean little because huge numbers of people will just drop out of the system and get into trouble and difficulty. If the youth guarantee is to mean anything then it must apply in...

Other Questions: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a cumulative figure for cuts to City of Dublin Youth Services Board since 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32604/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has undertaken or intends to undetake an analysis or impact study on the cumulative effects of the cuts in education, family support services, health services, guidance and mental health services, special needs assistants and resource hours and school completion programme on young persons in the areas catered for by the City of...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Briefly, I support this Bill. It is absolutely right to add these other categories for inclusion in the equality legislation to ensure that equality extends to all sectors that need it and that potentially suffer discrimination when it comes to dealing with State agencies or in respect of how public assets are deployed. Consequently, this Bill is welcome. I wish to give two instances of...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also might mention briefly just where such desperation might lead. I also just now met a man named Mike Mahon outside Leinster House. He is a pensioner who had an interest-only deal on his mortgage whereby he was paying €150 per month. After that interest-only deal ran out, he suddenly was faced with a bill of €900 per month, which he could not pay.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He now is facing jail because he did something rather rash and stupid - that is, he glued together an ATM. I ask the Government to intervene in this regard.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the Chairman and staff on their good work in facilitating and assisting in this debate. While there are strongly held views on this important issue across the spectrum, people have conducted themselves in this debate with honesty and in the manner appropriate to the seriousness of the matter. This is welcome. For those of us who were around in the 1980s and early 1990s, it is...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will consider bringing forward amendments on Report Stage to change the Title to refer to a Bill to protect maternal life which I think is its real purpose. There has been no dispute about the fact that there have been legal protections for unborn life, but what the Bill seeks to address is the issue of protections for maternal life. I am concerned about the tenor of the Title in this...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the arguments on this section have been gone through in great detail consequent to Deputy Healy's and Deputy Ó Caoláin's amendments but I would like to signal the possibility of further amendments on Report Stage. Section 22 is ill-thought out and problematic. There is a possibility people could challenge whether doctors had made the right decision and whether they were...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope people have read the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made most of my points so I will be brief. Some of us believe that we are talking about wrongdoing. However one defines it, aggressive tax avoidance by large multinationals is wrong. Whether or not it is illegal is of secondary interest to me and, I suspect, to the majority of people both here and abroad. People think it is morally wrong that corporations can make obscene profit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that for the select committee or the sub-committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask one question? I accept that we have now made a decision on the multinationals. Outside the issue of the multinationals, is it still open to the sub-committee to make other suggestions not related to multinationals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you for listening to me, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform sub-committee on global corporate multi-taxation architecture shall invite in chief executive officers and other appropriate senior executives of multinational corporations and financial institutions to give information and answer questions in public session on their company's taxation policies and procedures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pressing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform sub-committee on global corporate multi-taxation architecture shall as part of its terms of reference invite into the committee to give testimony and answer questions representatives of multinational corporations based here in Ireland, including representatives of Apple, Google, Facebook and other such corporations as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a comment in earlier discussions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.