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- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We can commence with, "That this committee requests of the Minister". Are we posing the question to the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, or the Minister for Health?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That the committee recommends that the Minister for Health and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, invites the Centre for Independent Living on to the review group that they have established to look at a replacement for the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----motorised transport grant and mobility allowance. Do those words work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.
- 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: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I completely agree with the approach of the witnesses and it is the right way to go. Earlier I asked the Secretary General a question on who was involved in the review group trying to resolve the problem. Are the witnesses involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do they believe they should be involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is agreed so we should recommend this.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Mathews asked a very specific question but I want to speak to the section.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have very much time. I have learned a lot about the REITs and they are very interesting but I am alarmed. I would like to hear the answer to Deputy Doherty's question on the corporation tax rate, as yet again we seem to be going down the road of reducing corporate tax liability in order to encourage investment. Have we not heard that before? The Minister seems to be suggesting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank them for coming in and thank those in the gallery for coming in as well. First, I can fairly say that the committee is dealing here with members who are completely sympathetic to Mr. McCabe's view on this and its objectives in safeguarding the grants and allowances. The big question we need to discuss is how we will do that, given the current situation, and what is Mr. McCabe's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has it just been called?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We could give it another two or three minutes.