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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree it is wide-ranging, but these tax expenditures and tax reliefs are the dirty great secret of the Irish economic story. They must be examined forensically to see if money being handed back to corporations in allowances and deductions should be invested in public infrastructure and public services. Consider the jump in trading profits from 2014 to 2015. They go from €98...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of SPVs registered here in each of the past three years; the amount of tax paid by these companies; the amount of tax foregone due to particular tax breaks for SPVs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21489/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if all information with regard to tax foregone by REITs since their establishment will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21492/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a minimum effective corporate tax rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review corporate tax reliefs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21491/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Review (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the local property tax and its impact on increasing wealth inequality here will be produced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21488/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 429 of 1 May 2018, the number of the 3,423 families in receipt of WFP in the public sector in each area, section or department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21587/18]

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The slaughter of unarmed Palestinian protesters carried out by Israel yesterday and its response in the past six weeks to the Great March of Return was cold blooded, deliberate, calculated murder. It was not an over-reaction or a somehow justifiable defence of a border but premeditated murder. How do I know that? Two days before the protests started six weeks ago I told the Tánaiste...

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In light of all the atrocities Israel has carried out, if we simply hand-wring, express regret and concern then the atrocities will continue. It is effective complicity, especially when we also give Israel favoured trade status. Israel does not give a damn about words, and the Tánaiste knows that. The Tánaiste said he talked to Benjamin Netanyahu three times and that he will talk...

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is pressing his EU counterparts for further actions in support of Palestinian rights in the context of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the ongoing Palestinian protest on the right to return as allowed for by UN resolution and the ongoing aggression by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The murder of 58 unarmed Palestinian protesters yesterday by Israel was cold-blooded premeditated murder. It was not an overreaction or an ad hocresponse. It was premeditated. In the face of premeditated executions by Israel, does the Minister not think it is incumbent on this country and the European Union to impose sanctions which would actually impact on Israel to stop this slaughter?

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Beyond the politics, people in Gaza have contacted me and asked that we would immediately provide medical and blood supplies. They have actually run out of blood in the hospitals in Gaza because they are overwhelmed with injured people and those who have been shot. That is a practical matter.

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People have been phoning me from Gaza, telling me the hospitals are overwhelmed. The Minister should use our contacts there to see if there is anything we can do to get blood and medical supplies there. Beyond that, how many atrocities does Israel have to commit before the European Union stops giving it favoured trade status, for example? Why is that allowed? There are supposed to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What scale of atrocity does Israel have to commit to trigger EU sanctions against it? I ask this in all seriousness. Israel has favoured trade status from the European Union with the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Effectively, we treat it as an associate member of the European Union, yet it massacred 58 people yesterday. It killed another 45 or 46 over the past six weeks. Six weeks...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume the social policy sub-committee discusses disability issues and the implications of ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. How does that fit with planned changes in special needs assessments which speech and language therapists and the Psychological Society of Ireland believe will significantly undermine the supports available to families...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is just looking for help.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has been blacklisted because he blew the whistle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21100/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the committee discussed the issue of whistleblowers and providing the support to whistleblowers that the Government often claims it is committed to? I raised with the Taoiseach a couple of weeks ago the case of Mr. Stephen Walsh who blew the whistle on fraudulent behaviour, and indeed bribery, in the health service which revealed that a surgical equipment company had been essentially...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met. [21099/18]