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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?

Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will still be voting together against the Government's budget.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister realise how much fear and anger there is in the country at this time? There is fear in the hearts of ordinary people that they will be pushed over the edge into poverty with cuts in child benefit, the imposition of property taxes and water charges, as well as more hikes in mortgage interest this week. There is anger that this should happen at the same time that €1...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The action would also benefit another Fine Gael supporter who gave a political donation to a Minister of State, Deputy Creighton.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not reminiscent of the Fianna Fáil sleaze that the Government would have denounced so quickly a few years ago? Does the picture of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, with Mr. Murphy not look reminiscent of the pictures of Mr. Brian Cowen with Mr. FitzPatrick?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not the sleaze that we thought would be left behind? It seems it has returned with a vengeance. Is this not proof that yet again, as with the last Government, we have a Government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich while ordinary people are being slaughtered with cuts and austerity. What is the Labour Party doing propping up a Government like this?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just us who are inciting protests. This week, in The Irish Times, Mr. Paul Krugman, the well known and respected economist-----