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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. I appreciate all the work. Mr. Coffey is coming in next year to talk about corporate tax, is he not?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the report?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We asked Mr. Coffey before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach met but we did not get him in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were hoping to get Mr. Coffey in and thought we agreed that he was coming in next year. I hope he is coming in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not worry about the finance committee. This is the Committee on Budgetary Oversight.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Coffey identified that the knowledge development box, intangible assets, allowances and so on that were benefitting a small number of IT companies was not necessarily translating into higher levels of investment. Does he think that needs to be looked at? Developing and innovation is part of developing a sustainable economic model. If available public expenditure is going into a small...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May we table amendments to the Government's proposal?

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I formally move amendment No. 1:That the matter be referred to the committee for next week and that no vote take place in the Dáil until the new year.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The public knows nothing nothing about this.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What has gone on here stinks to high heaven. Something of absolutely enormous significance about advanced co-operation across Europe to progress the militarisation of Europe and ramp up the arms industry was not notified to the Business Committee and is being pushed through at a few day's notice. A vote is to be taken which, when one looks at the 20 different commitments under the PESCO...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I think. Why then has the Government told us there is a deadline? The deadline for the Government is the EU Council meeting.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government wants to get it through, so it had the Chief Whip come into the Business Committee meeting to tell us there was a deadline to be met. There is no deadline for joining PESCO. We can apply at any time in the future following a proper debate and consideration. That was simply misleading the Business Committee and it is misleading the Dáil. There is no deadline. The...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, it makes a sham of democracy.

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: First Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is like the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach knows how terrorism is defined. Some of our friends in Europe-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first point is that it is not about waiting, but doing. The Christian Brothers claim the contract is legally binding; the school disputes that. Second, whether it is legally binding or not, there are things the Minister could do. Has he told the Christian Brothers that what they are doing is wrong? Of course they should pay their debts, but this sale will raise €18 million,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So they say.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: God almighty, if ever there were an argument for separation of church and State, we really have it here. That the Christian Brothers can do this to school students to pay a debt for the crimes they committed against previous generations of school students and the Minister says there is nothing he can do is pathetic. The Minister has not answered the question why he could not put a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts he has made to ensure that the playing pitches at a school (details supplied) will be available for the children of that school into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52012/17]