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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I realise it is difficult. People have to be trained and Mr. Cody is losing experienced people, but does he believe he is still short in absolute numbers from where he should be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just asking. I get the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nonetheless, Mr. Cody appeared to be saying that if he had people to examine some of these compliance matters, whether it is transfer pricing or going around building sites to ensure there is no bogus self-employment, there would be a return from that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Cody is doing a good selling job and I do not dispute what he is saying as I am all for expanding the public sector. The recent Oxfam report states if the EU criteria applied to tax havens were applied to Ireland, we would be blacklisted, with Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands. While it states we are okay when it comes to the BEPS, base erosion and profit shifting, project,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have to have a longer discussion about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will set aside that matter for now. Will Mr. Cody address my last question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not asking that. Let us set aside the politics for a minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I really genuinely do not understand that. I know the Revenue Commissioners and the Government disagree. Set that debate aside, let us say whoever made the ruling----- This is quite an important question and I want an answer to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is on topic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us say that the people who made the decision in the European Union were in Mr Cody's job and decided to apply the same standards to other similar cases as to the ones they applied to Apple.

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cui bono, who benefits from the suppression of that information? The suppression of the information would not have come out but for the fact that Katie Hannon exposed it. We would not know and Mr. Justice Charleton would not have received it. That begs the question: even if we get commitments now that all the relevant documents are handed over, how do we know, despite all the hubbub, that...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said she seems to be a decent individual. What I cannot judge or what I find difficult to explain, and I do not know why the Minister is shaking his head, is how all this information could be in her Department and we are told it was not discussed. We are told that people forgot about it. It was so unimportant or registered so little at the time that people just forgot about it. It was...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was much lamenting of the fate of the Tánaiste yesterday on the Government side of the House. Do not get me wrong - I have no axe to grind with her personally, but the person who has most to lament in this sorry saga is Sergeant Maurice McCabe who first had the bravery to make a complaint in 2006 about malpractice in An Garda Síochána. It is now 2017 and we still have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our shocking failure to reduce CO2 emissions has been further exposed by the EPA's report. Is the Taoiseach willing to take the radical action necessary and end the special pleading for our pathetic performance? Both Deputy Bríd Smith and Deputy Eamon Ryan this week and last week submitted Bills proposing a decision to grant no more licences for the exploration of oil and gas. If we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it will be better than the Northern scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I was going to a summit on social issues in Europe I would certainly make the point, and I hope the Taoiseach did this, that the biggest social crisis facing this country is housing and homelessness and that it is at appalling emergency levels. A little known fact, but one noted by Mercy Law Resource Centre among others, is that, incredibly, Ireland opted out of the right to housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Gothenburg. [50597/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach may have received an email from Peter McVerry today pointing out that seven individuals have died sleeping rough in the past 12 weeks, which is both unprecedented and shameful. There is the shocking fact that 3,000 children are in emergency accommodation. Peter McVerry is asking for very specific things to respond to this. Will the Taoiseach agree to what he is asking for?...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [50209/17]