Results 23,901-23,920 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health the number of voluntary/and not-for-profit home help/home care organisations are there currently operating in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43123/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the location of and to whom the new home help/home care service tenders are being given/or have been for the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43124/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Redundancies (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns being raised by home helps with regards to their lack of contracts and conditions of employment; his plans to take action regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41675/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Redundancies (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that there are standard contracts with detailed terms and conditions for workers in the home help sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41674/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Appointments (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline all plans for the Diaspora Centre, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin; the stage they are at including origin of all funding; if any staff have been appointed at this stage; and the pay scale of same. [43179/12]
- Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly disagree with the Minister. Ireland has become Europe's version of the Cayman Islands. It is part of an international architecture for tax avoidance in multinationals. This system of tax avoidance, of which we form a critical part in Europe, is destabilising the global economy. As multinationals are increasingly not paying tax across the world - an act we facilitate - there is...
- Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the effective rate?
- Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not seeing much of an effect.
- Other Questions: Tax Yield (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Either the Minister is not examining the issue seriously or he is being disingenuous. I cited an example of one of the country's most profitable companies paying a corporation tax rate of 0.5%. It was well publicised. Is it not of concern that the tax forgone to the State is approximately €90 million at a time when Ministers are considering imposing further brutal attacks on people...
- Other Questions: Tax Yield (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about raising the effective tax rate?
- Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggested it.
- Other Questions: Tax Yield (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When some of us on this side of the House rail against the austerity the Minister is imposing on working people and the vulnerable, he always asks us for an alternative, implying there is none. I almost felt sorry for him earlier when he said we are never helpful. Let me be helpful by offering him some alternatives. The case of just one company based in Shannon, one of the most profitable...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a wealth tax as an alternative to property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42283/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider higher taxes on incomes of more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42323/12]
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The individual would be kept in business.
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Were they in addition to the 20?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do people not have the right at least to expect that when cruel austerity is being imposed cuts in home help, property charges-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and mortgage interest hikes that a golden circle is not being protected and looked after with what a former Minister has called stroke politics? Do the people not at least have the right to expect that stroke politics would be ended and that the golden circle would be broken up so that it will not only be the poor and the working people who will suffer pain in the recession?
- Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The national newspapers report again today on the Government's continued commitment to sell off the harvesting rights of 85% of Coillte forestry, a decision some of us-----
- Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----believe is criminal and stupid economically and in every other way. When will we get to debate the forestry Bill and the issues surrounding it? Will the Minister give a commitment that we will have that debate before the Government moves ahead with the sale of harvesting rights on Coillte lands?