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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, that is fine.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses referred to stable sources of revenue. That was the basis of my first question. I take their point about volatile corporation tax heads and so on. Could they give examples of the more stable sources of revenue? The ones to which I would point include employers' PRSI, which is very low.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree on that one. What would Mr. McCarthy say about financial transactions taxes and wealth taxes? He pointed to this when referencing the opening up of loopholes. Our committee has started to examine this. Generally, a great deal of discussion focuses on what will be spent in current and capital expenditure but much less attention is given to tax reliefs, credits and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In that case can I ask one further question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the likely impact of Brexit being somewhat negative or the possibilities of the downside risks that threaten us, the Government must respond by radically diversifying our economy away from being over-dependent on a few sectors. That is our best medium to long-term insulation against some of these vulnerabilities we have. Dr. Kinsella mentioned the agrifood sector and said we should...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Government sabotaging and subverting the democratic and legislative process through the use of money messages on Bills that do not involve any levying of taxes, which we are not allowed to do, or spending of money? It is abusing the money message on a whole series of Bills - in fact, it is 55 Bills at the moment. In our case, a Bill passed twice through the Dáil to give...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They lobbied for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In Berlin, there is a five-year temporary emergency freeze until the problem is resolved. There is no reason we could not do that and it would not necessarily drive people out of the market. It would be temporary and would recognise the emergency. On the issue of housing lists, let us be clear. If the numbers on housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The abysmal failure of the Government's housing policy is well known and acknowledged at this stage. There are 100,000 households on the housing lists, some waiting a decade or more. There are extortionate rents in Dublin running at an average of €1,600 per month, which means someone would need to be able to spend more than €18,000 a year on rent to afford that. House prices...

Pre-European Council: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. Following on from the points I made earlier, if we are to prevent the alarming rise of the far right across Europe and a return to the dark days of the 1930s and 1940s, we have to look at the underlying problems, and not only in Europe, of poverty, deprivation, inequality and gross disparities between the very wealthy and the majority in society....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from the previous point, we are now reaching crisis point in terms of the lack of trades people in this country to help us resolve the housing crisis and to develop the ambitious retrofit programme we need to meet climate change targets. We have a desperate shortage of trained craftspeople, a very significant portion of whom are in Australia. Did the Taoiseach ask the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that one of the key priorities for his Department was to make work pay. I put it to him that he is failing dramatically in that regard. For large numbers of people, getting a pay increase means they lose their medical card and are pushed off the council housing waiting list and into an income bracket where they have no chance of being able to afford to put a roof over...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the UK Labour Party leader, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn. [25211/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also welcome the fact that the Taoiseach met Jeremy Corbyn. Whatever else one might say about the mess in Britain, we would be in a far better position if Jeremy Corbyn was the Prime Minister. He is far more sympathetic to the situation in Ireland, far more knowledgeable about what the reinstatement of a border might mean and he is not somebody who wants to be in a conflictual...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a State regulated insurance company in view of the recent report of profits in the insurance industry increasing by 1,300%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25588/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement new regulations of vulture and cuckoo funds to ensure that those in search of affordable homes are not losing out to international speculators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25589/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the two prefabs, one of which is occupied by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 40 and 72 of 15 May 2019, the reason the new national children's hospital is obliged to provide private facilities for consultants who hold public and private contracts; his views on whether it is preferable in view of the Sláintecare report and a commitment to moving to a single tier health service, to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25774/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. Healy is ahead of the game there.