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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to undertake a comprehensive review of all corporate tax reliefs and expenditures to establish if such tax reliefs benefit the public and society or are simply providing a mechanism for extensive tax avoidance and private corporate profit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13629/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to award free travel passes to persons with epilepsy and their travel companions in view of the fact that many are banned from driving and are advised by doctors not to cycle and not to use public transport unaccompanied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the recent decisions to allow homemakers pre-1994 to discount those years from pension calculations will be enacted; when women will benefit from same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14109/18]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review the status of pay inequality across the whole public sector in view of the shortage of teachers and health staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13010/18]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the shortages of staff across the public sector can be attributed to low pay and to pay inequality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13006/18]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The shocking record figures for people on trolleys over recent weeks were further evidence of an unacceptable crisis in the health service. Once again, nurses, doctors and medical experts said we need more beds and to have those we need more nurses. We also need more teachers. The Government cannot recruit them because it is not paying them properly and one of the problems is that new...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that in many cases, and certainly in nursing, as many nurses are leaving as are being recruited. I had a long conversation with Phil Ní Sheaghdha of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, last week who pointed out that in 2016 the State recruited 2,573 nurses but 2,271 left in the same period. The net recruitment for the health service where there is a dire...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some unions signed up to those agreements because they thought they were the best they could get but they are not happy about it. Many unions did not sign up to those agreements because they consider it completely unacceptable to have a pay apartheid whereby people who happen to be recruited after 2011 and 2012, and who over the course of their lifetime will earn maybe €100,000 less...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about all the ones who are leaving?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the recent collapse of a company (details supplied) and previous problems with public private partnerships will lead the Government to review its commitment to such funding models for infrastructure and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13009/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review all areas of public expenditure with regard to public procurement or grant aid which have employment implications to ensure that employment generated from such expenditure is quality employment and that such funding is not used to underpin precarious forms of employment; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Employment Rights (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he plans to put in place to combat precarious employment in projects or services in which public money is being spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13008/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the commitment to public private partnerships as a means to finance capital projects should be reconsidered in view of the collapse of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4285/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Relief on Trade Union Subscriptions: Fórsa (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Fórsa for the submissions and the witnesses for their contribution to the committee today. I thank Mr. O'Connor for meeting with me last week to brief me on the issue. I also thank the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Fórsa branch which also contacted me about the issue as part of the campaign. The witnesses do not have to convince me any further; I have already...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I primarily wish to raise the matter of the very worrying things happening in Israel, both in terms of its treatment of Palestinians and its wider stance in the region, in particular in terms of Iran, which I believe should be discussed at the European Council but was not addressed by the Taoiseach in his speech. On taxation, without getting...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with the suggestion of People Before Profit representatives in the North that, in the light of the political paralysis, we need a new civil rights movement to break the logjam and from the failed paradigm of green and orange politics? Since the civil rights movement that it tried to quell in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that paradigm has paralysed Northern...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think the Taoiseach should respect the will of this House in this regard and he should answer the question on the position if the motion is passed. In passing, and I genuinely do not mean to be glib in this, if the Taoiseach is somewhat credibly saying that people should not make stuff up - I do not think the queries about the strategic communications unit are that, as they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but the Taoiseach cannot, on the one hand, say people should not make stuff up and then go to Washington and make stuff up, and then subsequently deny it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the education section of the programme for Government the Government promised to establish "a new relationship with students" and also promised to improve accessibility to third level education. I wonder what the Taoiseach thinks in that context of the row that took place last week between students in Trinity College, who were forced to occupy college buildings over attempts to introduce...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason a person (details supplied) was refused entry into the Defence Forces despite having passed their psychometric testing, interview and medical examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12832/18]