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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest to the Taoiseach that it is time for the Government to stop the big lie about corporate tax in this country and the claim that we are not a tax haven. The evidence is now mounting all around us that we are a tax haven, and that we are one of the worst culprits in facilitating multinational corporations and financial vultures to dodge their tax liabilities and obligations to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the ongoing Syrian crisis and escalating regional tensions in the Middle East at his meeting with US President Obama in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22631/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the humanitarian crisis as a result of the ongoing blockade of Gaza at his meeting with US President Obama in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22632/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the US President's priorities for the forthcoming G8 summit in Fermanagh at their recent meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22633/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the closure of the US prison in Guantanamo and the release of prisoners at his meeting with US President Obama in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22634/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Shadow Banking Sector (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if the issue of shadow banking here was discussed at the meeting of EU Finance and Economic Ministers that he attended last week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23986/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details of the contract with Abtran to run the local property tax help line; the cost of a call to this help line when calling from a mobile phone; his views on whether the outsourcing of this service is appropriate in view of the revelations with regards to an employee abusing credit card details; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance with regards to the planned Dublin Array project, the tax that will apply if the project goes ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20200/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions, if any, he held on Ireland's exit from the IMF programme with Christine Lagarde; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18601/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Eurozone Crisis (21 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had any discussions with his Cypriot counterparts; if those discussions included implications for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15568/13]

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the Minister of State has. I am not disputing that. I have also been quite involved in this issue over the years. I marched in the protest against deregulation, not because I did not recognise the need for more taxis but because the taxi drivers who marched against deregulation warned what would happen, and they were correct. Subsequently, I have joined many campaigns, protests...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that it is difficult. What they informed me is that, subsequently, a taxi forum has been set up which brings all of these groups together.

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to signal this and follow the debate and the discussion. I will not pre-empt the matter, but persons who I believe have credibility state there was a problem. Probably for historical reasons as well as historical failures, there is a significant lack of confidence in the authorities and the regulatory regime. The Minister of State must go out of his way to be inclusive, in terms of...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the chance to speak on the Taxi Regulation Bill. The starting point in discussing the Bill is to say the situation in the taxi industry is a very powerful example of the utter bankruptcy of the free market deregulation ideology which Mary Harney, Bobby Molloy and their Fianna Fáil counterparts were responsible for applying with such dire consequences. It is worth noting in...

Order of Business (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do we need these powers?

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those estimates are wrong.

Order of Business (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Justice and Equality has announced that he intends to table amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill giving himself the power to shut down mobile phone networks in advance of the G8 summit. This move comes alongside what can only be described as a huge campaign of hype and hysteria whereby drone planes are being brought in and thousands of police are also being brought over...

Order of Business (16 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this legislation part of a systematic campaign to try to intimidate peaceful protesters at the G8 summit? These peaceful protesters against war and militarism will be intimidated and bullied North and South.

Good Friday Agreement: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most recent phase of conflict in the North began when civil rights protesters campaigning on matters such as equality in housing were beaten off the street by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, RUC back in the late 1960s. That produced 30 years of conflict. We all welcome the fact that an Agreement arose out of the fact that people in the North got sick of communal violence, demanded some...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a big problem with the rationale behind this Bill. The legislation is part of a suite of measures that arises from our commitments under the troika programme and under the fiscal treaty, both of which I oppose. On the face of it, the Government's arguments might seem reasonable - that we require budget discipline, need to balance the books and have medium-term planning. In addition,...