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Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The chairperson of the Dublin City Council finance committee and a number of other councillors have confirmed that there is no doubt that if the property tax is imposed on local authority housing in Dublin City Council, it will be passed on in the form of rent to local authority tenants. The same report was given by council officials in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council at...

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that local authorities will be liable for the property tax with regards to their housing stock, the way he intends local authorities to deal with this; if he will be or has already issued any communication to local authorities in this regard; and his views on whether council tenants should be asked to pay...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Basically the Minister is saying that there will be no change. The Government is failing to acknowledge and take action on what is an enormous crisis facing small and medium enterprises, which the Government itself constantly says will be the driving force and the motor behind our economic recovery. There are 4,000 family-owned businesses in this country employing around 90,000 which are on...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I always have done.

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: James Connolly was always on the side of workers and small businesses. It is the big businesses that are the problem.

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to reduce the burden on small businesses and on low and middle income workers who, by the way, depend on each other. Who does the Minister think spends money in the small and medium-sized businesses on the high street? It is the corporations and the very wealthy, who can hoard their money offshore and avoid their taxes while making enormous profits, who should be made pay a bigger...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a raised this issue on a number of occasions with the Minister of State. Does she not recognise that the progress being made in this area is pathetic given that the census of population identified that there were 340,000 empty houses and having regard to the number of people on the housing waiting list, namely, some 100,000 families? It is unbelievable that so little progress has...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That has to be addressed.

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the interests of the economic difficulties that small retail in town centres are experiencing, he will consider bringing forward legislation that will allow for local authorities to implement a differential rates system that would see retailers being billed according to their turnover and their ability to pay; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Official Engagements (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has met voluntary and community organisations recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54228/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the Fingal County Council commissioned Report on the 2007 fire at Ayrside, Swords, County Dublin, in timber framed apartments where inadequate and or deficient fire/smoke barriers allowed smoke to travel throughout a block of apartments; and his further views on the implications for fire safety compliance and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 18 October 2012, the person that authorised the payment of €19,877 to the Chief Executive Officer of DunLaoghaire Harbour Company in lieu of untaken leave or holidays; if it is within current legislation to allow payment in lieu of untaken leave; and if the sum of €19,877 is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 18 October 2012, and the €20,000 payment of a car allowance to the Chief Executive Officer of the DunLaoghaire Harbour Company, he will explain the reason this €20,000 payment shows up in the company accounts as other when for previous Chief Executive Officers it showed up as...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the full cost of the current Chief Executive Officer of DunLaoghaire Harbour Company's salary to the Exchequer including basic salary, employers PRSI pension contributions, director's fees and expenses for 2010, 2011 and 2012 [5492/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total turnover of DunLaoghaire Harbour Company; the percentage of this spent on payroll costs including employers' PRSI and pension contributions; and the percentage of payroll costs which go to the Chief Executive Office, the Financial Controller/Secretary, the Operations Manager and the Harbour Master [5494/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to the overpayment made to a board member (details supplied) of the harbour company, if the moneys have been returned; the amount that was returned; and the method used for its return [5490/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Membership (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all the directors of the DunLaoghaire Harbour Company from 1997 to date in 2013; the timeframe for which each director served; and the remuneration of each board member, each year in director's fees and expenses [5491/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authority Properties (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the harbour lodge in Dun Laoghaire was used for a private function on 27 January; the nature of this private function; and if any fee was paid for the use of the lodge [5493/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, the idea we might be required to dispose of State assets because the troika tells us to do so makes the whole matter obscene and outrageous. That we might sell off our State forestry - our national heritage - to pay off the debts of gamblers is nothing short of obscene. The Government is not specifically required to sell off Coillte. It could find this money elsewhere by taxing the...

Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could give them Anglo Irish Bank and all its debts.