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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to delay too long. It would be helpful to know what it is in particular about these investment limited partnerships that requires them to get an exemption. I am not-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I suppose Deputy Twomey knows it off by heart.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We could debate that and certainly I would like to debate it.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I need to know more. I have no wish to debate in the dark.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. Does Ireland's position on these matters compare with other jurisdictions in Europe? Are financial services exempt from VAT everywhere else, in most places or in some places?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are exemptions on VAT fairly standard throughout Europe?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the Minister of State at his word.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not the kind of thing for which we could go to the European Investment Bank? Deputy Halligan said he met with EIB representatives at a committee and asked them about this. If the public sector goes to the EIB with a good project that has a definite return and for which it can set out a business case, the bank does not care whether it is public or private sector; it is interested in...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the Minister's answers in the sense he is engaging with the issues we are raising, but while moves are being made towards more sustainable forms and uses of energy to reduce CO2 emissions, it always seems to be that only those least in a position to do so bear the cost of these transitions or suffering most as a result of the transition. I am a firm believer that if one wants...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Significant numbers of older people die of hypothermia because they cannot afford to heat their homes during winter. The number of recorded deaths in this regard has increased in recent years. There is no getting around that what the Minister is proposing exacerbates that situation. I would like to hear the Minister's response to this issue. Organisations representing the elderly make...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have voted against these measures in this and the previous budget. This is clearly a revenue-raising exercise that will hit the least well-off. When considered alongside the reduction in the fuel allowance, it will hit yet again those who just cannot afford to be hit. It is spurious in the extreme to suggest it has anything to do with CO2 reductions. It is a straightforward...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact that the the planned increase in the student staff ratio in the further education sector will have on course offerings, specialist training skills and course places; and if he will make a statement on the matter [11999/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider his plans to increase the student staff ratio in the further education sector in view of the damaging effect this will have on the sector in terms of job and skill losses, loss of courses and reduction of course places for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a grammatical point, we have the words "requests" and "recommends". We should just say that this committee "recommends". We do not need to repeat ourselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. Is the secretariat happy that is in order?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The mobility grant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we need to pass a motion or agree by consensus before the committee makes a recommendation? Perhaps the committee secretariat can inform us what the appropriate procedure is for doing so. Do we simply say that we recommend that the Centre for Independent Living is represented on the review group? Must we write to the Department and the Minister stating our recommendation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we make that proposal? It seems we have the agreement of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we need to write it or can we just say it?