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Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----stated that the protestors in Greece, Spain and elsewhere in Europe who resisted what he termed "cruel" austerity were absolutely right.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He argued that the troika is wrong and the policies are unfair, cruel and crippling for the European economy and economies like ours.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister think people have the right to expect not to have what is displayed in these pictures?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax relief for approved retirement funds in respect of earners if more than €80,000 and for earners more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42351/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax relief foregone by the provision for patent income relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42352/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures in tabular form on the total earnings of the top 10,000 income earners; the top 1% of income earners; the top 5% of income earners; the top 10% of income earners and the top 20% of income earners; the number of earners in those groups; the average earnings of those groups; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on income tax in tabular form in bands of €10,000 ranging from €0 to €5 million; the gross income in each band; the numbers in each band; the percentage of total numbers in each band; the average income in each band; the income tax paid in each band; the universal social charge paid in each band; the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth Rate (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the most recent figures for growth and for the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34961/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 468 of 18 September 2012, when he expects to provide the full information. [42087/12]

Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like the other speakers, I pay tribute to Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan for bringing this comprehensive motion forward and highlighting the many important issues it raises. It is timely that such a motion should come forward because alcoholism and drug addiction, particularly heroin addiction, have blighted our society for many years. We are now in an economic recession, with mass...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not answered my main question. I accept that Ireland has a reasonably good record in terms of aid for the developing world but my question is on the financial transaction tax and the reason we are not taking a more proactive leadership role and leading by example when it comes to championing the imposition of this modest proposal that was put forward explicitly to respond...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are we not leading from the front in demanding and publicly confronting those leaders, including David Cameron in Britain, who refused to go along with this modest proposal to deal with poverty and inequality across the world? Is it the case that it is because the Taoiseach has as a higher imperative the question of economic competition over everything else? Competition when it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But economic competition-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----when it is applied as the highest imperative that overrides everything else, leads to starvation, hunger, inequality, poverty, needless deaths and people dying from diseases from which they should not have to die. The financial transaction tax is an effort to deal with that and we should be the ones who lead by example and proactively argue for its imposition and be willing to bring it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach use our Presidency of the EU to launch a campaign on this?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will pass over the irony of Fianna Fáil lecturing anyone about leadership, seeing as it led us to the most disastrous economic decision any Government has ever taken in this State with the blanket guarantee for the banks and the ensuing catastrophic consequences. Perhaps Fianna Fáil should take a lesson in irony before lecturing anyone.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You have had your 15 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy's party spoofed for 15 years and look where that landed us.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Setting aside the question of the euro crisis, the meeting with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, was on the question of world hunger and on the occasion of the Olympics and Paralympics. Perhaps that should have been an opportunity to ask slightly broader and deeper questions about the priorities in the world and how well governments are dealing with the issues facing humanity. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The differential between those at the top and those at the bottom is growing wider every year, including in this country, where the top 10% of people have 14 times the income of those at the bottom. It is in that context that the financial transaction tax arises. It was proposed specifically to deal with the impact of globalisation and the unequal distribution of wealth, including world...