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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his hosting of the recent British-Irish Council summit. [50113/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has carried out an audit on the companies that have been running JobPath in advance of their contracts being reviewed for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50369/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for JobPath; if the companies contracts will be renewed for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50368/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses have repeatedly said, and the Department of Finance has acknowledged, that the corporation tax revenue we are relying on for spending on our public services, infrastructure, etc. puts us at risk. The witnesses have said they are concerned about that so are they effectively acknowledging we are a tax haven? I suspect the witnesses will be reluctant to go as far as saying we are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do those who accuse us of being an international tax haven at least have a fair argument? Oxfam, Christian Aid and many countries have said that Ireland is a tax haven. I know it does not fit the technical definition of tax haven but nobody fits that definition. When the Government argues that Ireland is not a tax haven because it does not fit the definition, it is meaningless. The world...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excellent. Deputy Lahart reads them too. The graphs detailing profits are pretty stunning. They demonstrate that profits of corporations have gone from approximately €40 billion in 2008 to €140 billion, which is stunning by any measure. I am not sure what rate wage increases have been at over that period but perhaps the witnesses know. Will they confirm that wage increases...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I would not assume that at all.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Coffey was asking me a question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wine.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We got money messaged. We got Bills passed and then they got money messaged.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not personal. This is not about Deputy Eoghan Murphy as an individual; this is about a policy that has failed and the shameful consequences of that policy. Almost 4,000 children are suffering circumstances that no child should have to suffer. Indeed, the number is much higher because, while some eventually get out of homelessness, more enter it. Thousands of young people,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers Development (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be a matter of concern to the Government that an unelected executive is making decisions about a very important site, which is of huge value to the people of the area and could generate significant employment and benefits for the area, without reference to anybody. I cannot get information in the House. In the email I have in my hand, councillors are told that a preferred bidder...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers Development (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The executive will not tell us about it. It is a secret.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers Development (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to proposals to establish a new enterprise at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50142/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers Development (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question relates to the former Stena terminal building in Dún Laoghaire Harbour and the moves by the council to develop some sort of new enterprise there. The problem is that elected representatives - councillors and I - and the wider public have no clue as to how the expressions of interest process was set up, how the council decided to pick a preferred bidder and what criteria were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers Development (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All I can say is the plot thickens. I would be delighted if there were funds available under the Department's regional enterprise development fund. What I find an absolute mystery is that Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council decided on a preferred bidder to set up a new enterprise in this central location in the middle of Dún Laoghaire Harbour and it has not even spoken to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As well as the issue of Israel's abhorrent treatment of Palestinian children as described by Deputy McDonald, whose question I echo about what the Government will do to raise this ongoing and systematic denial of rights to children in breach of every sort of international law and standard, I wish to ask about what the Government is going to do to raise its voice and demand that the EU take...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international division in his Department. [47832/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Biotechnology Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department has in implementing the bio-economy framework which was launched a year ago; and the actions that have been taken since. [49141/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Biotechnology Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The bioeconomy strategy pays lip service to forestry and its importance to the bioeconomy, biodiversity, a circular economy, etc. However, the actuality of Government policy suggests that all of this is just lip service and nothing more. A report by Mr. Jim Mackinnon, commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has come out just this month. Frankly, it is damning of...