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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any meetings he has had with Prime Minister Monti at the EU Council meeting in December or at any subsequent meetings at EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8567/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the EU leaders he has met with since the EU summit and if he will report on these meetings. [9966/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any discussions with the Greek Prime Minister since the EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9967/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any meetings or discussions with the recently resigned Bulgarian Prime Minister since the EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9968/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any meetings or conversations he has had with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel including any discussions he has had with her on banking debt and the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11391/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11392/13]

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill for the Government's so-called property tax - in reality the home tax it plans to inflict on hundreds of thousands of ordinary struggling householders - is having its final Stages rammed through this House with yet another guillotine this evening. Just as the Government imposed a guillotine in the debate before Christmas, it is doing so again to foreclose proper debate and scrutiny...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of Failte Ireland spending on promoting the English language sector sector in 2011 and 2012 and if he will provide a breakdown of that spending; the range of initiatives including direct marketing campaigns to raise awareness of Ireland as an education destination they took in 2012 and will take in 2013. [11205/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (5 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the education missions and events Fáilte Ireland took part in in 2012 and which they plan to in 2013; and if he will specify the work done with the relevant institutions/providers to increase their capability and potential to attract international students in 2012, and the plans for 2013. [11206/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I join Deputy Catherine Murphy in protesting in the strongest possible terms at the imposition of the guillotine. Many of us would like to speak for a considerably longer time because there is a lot in this Bill. The Tánaiste put on a display of political cynicism when we was questioned on this matter yesterday. It beggared belief that Government Deputies were chortling in their seats...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It refers to matters connected with SOLAS's functions.

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is strange the word "education" is not mentioned. That worries me. There is a reason for being worried about it, given the result of the setting up of these super-quangos in the past, such as, for example, the HSE, which we all know turned into an utter disaster. The HSE replaced the health boards. While there is no question the health boards had major problems, at least they were more...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have had a lot to deal with this week, with the week that has been in it, so my examination of this issue has been somewhat rushed. While I have not fully scrutinised every aspect of this important legislation, I feel I need to speak on it. A number of issues of considerable concern regarding this package of legislation - the Bill before the House and a related Bill that we have discussed...

Order of Business (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bad enough that the Government plans to impose a tax on homes which will put an intolerable burden on hundreds of thousands of families already blighted with unemployment, mortgage distress and income cuts but it is nothing short of sabotage and manipulation of the democratic process that it will guillotine the most important Bill to come before the House this year. There is a clearly...

Order of Business (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Remove the guillotine and we will stay until 9.30 p.m.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the recent Irish Bank Resolution Corporation/Promissory Note deal, it is his intention to pass on the benefit of the claims that one billion euro in savings in the form of a less severe budget adjustment in Budget 2014; if so, if he will quantify the amount of any such new adjustment target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10630/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if given Eurostat figures that put Ireland's implicit tax rate at 6.8%, he will consider establishing a minimum effective corporation tax rate of 12.5% on the full amount of corporation pre-tax profits; if he will provide figures/projections on what such a minimum effective rate would yield in extra revenue to the State; and if he will make a statement on the...

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State can say that about the banks too and that is why he should assert some control over them.

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He does not exert any control over the banks and cannot even give them the instruction to write-down unsustainable mortgages. I certainly do not trust him to ask the banks to manage our forests for us.