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Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on the total earnings of the top 10,000 income earners; the average earnings of that group; and the total amount of tax on earnings paid by that group, in absolute terms and in percentage, effective tax rate, terms. [31742/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on the total earnings of the top 1% of income earners; the number of earners in that group; the average earnings of that group, and the total amount of tax on earnings paid by that group, in absolute terms and in percentage, effective tax rate, terms. [31743/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up to date figures on the total earnings of the top 10% of income earners, the number of earners in that group; the average earnings of that group; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by this group, in absolute and percentage, effective tax rate, terms. [31744/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up to date figures on the total earnings of the top 20% of income earners; the number of earners in that group; the average earnings of this group; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by this group, in absolute and percentage effective tax rate, terms. [31745/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of income earners that earn more than €100,000 per year; and the additional yield to the Exchequer if the effective minimum tax rate in all earnings in excess of €100,000 was increased to 50%. [31746/12]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 424: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if an unemployed person who owns a house that is in negative equity and that has been rented out in order to cover the mortgage repayments will be accepted on to the housing list in order to be able to access rent allowance to help with paying their rent in the house that they rent privately. [32262/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 451: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the six senior executives for whom the Local Government Management Agency provided funding to attend the three week executive management programme delivered by the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University, USA. [31936/12]

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the EU leaders' summit on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24035/12]

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he intends to raise the issue of debt write down for Ireland at the EU leaders' summit on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24037/12]

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to raise the Troika policy of promoting privatisation or sale of State assets and natural resources particularly in programme countries at the EU leaders' summit on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24038/12]

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 42: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the June EU leaders meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28062/12]

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are we seriously expected to take 60 questions together?

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have spent an hour dealing with five questions and now the Taoiseach is proposing to take 60 questions in ten minutes.

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is crazy.

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that European leaders were staring into the abyss last week and had to produce something new or face going over that abyss? Is it not also the case that when one examines the detail or lack thereof in the so-called breakthrough, there is good reason to believe it may be something of an accountancy trick, especially in light of the statement by the Minister for Finance...

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----after all the money that has been poured into them? Therefore, this will do next to nothing to stimulate economic growth or the job creation that would be something one could really celebrate.

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I asked about.

European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the €11 billion.

Swimming Pool Projects (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, in the interests of promoting tourism, to ensure that the full plan to restore the baths in Dun Laoghaire is able to progress immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32103/12]

Swimming Pool Projects (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 2004, in the biggest demonstration since 1921, 5,000 people marched in Dún Laoghaire to demand that the council abandon proposals to build a ten-storey private apartment block on the site of Dún Laoghaire baths and force a commitment from it to restore the public swimming baths. The demonstrators later forced it to commit to a plan in this regard. After a long delay and endless...