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- Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have 30 minutes between them to begin and then a further ten minutes each at the end. That leaves only 70 minutes for the rest of us.
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is precisely my point. I suggest we change that and make them five-minute slots.
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle need not worry, we will fill the time.
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we doing?
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Five minutes. And will everybody be allowed speak?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not a word from the Taoiseach when he met Mr. Tim Cook recently in the United States about the aggressive tax avoidance of Apple.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are probably going to be investigated by the EU for a second time. This will be on top of the investigation into the €13 billion tax dodged by Apple in the double Irish scam. Commissioner Vestager is discussing investigating-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----what happened, what Deputy Noonan did in 2014 to change the tax code and the restructuring of Apple's tax arrangements as regards the Isle of Man. The Government will not even take the €13 billion from Apple and put it into an escrow account as it has been ordered to do by the EU. The EU is taking infringement proceedings over our failure to ratify the anti-money laundering...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the beneficial ownership of deposits. The figures are stunning. After this tax break was introduced by Deputy Noonan benefitting Apple and other corporations, tax breaks on intangible assets increased from €2.6 billion to €28 billion in one year.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is hundreds of millions, if not billions, of euro in tax revenue lost as a direct result of what Deputy Noonan did in 2014.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the outrage? Where is the investigation? Where is the campaign on buses-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----paid for with public money asking people whether they want to deal with these tax dodgers who are cheating us all?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As long as Apple agrees.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Paradise Papers, so-called, or what I think should more accurately be described as the parasite papers, reveal a nexus of elite, super-wealthy individuals, banks and corporations, such as Apple, stashing away countless billions of euro in offshore bank accounts, in places like Jersey in the Channel Islands, in order to hide those billions from the taxman here in this country, and robbing...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely true.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it a coincidence that Deputy Enda Kenny met the CEO of Apple in January of 2014 at the same time that outrage was being expressed and pressure was coming on the issue of the double Irish? Then, lo and behold, in the budget of October a new loophole was opened up in the tax code to benefit Apple and other corporations like it.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is too much of coincidence. Where is the investigation? Where is the outrage? Where is the campaign against these super-wealthy tax dodgers who are robbing the people of this country and the world of these tax revenues?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that the playing fields land at a college (details supplied) have been sold; if he has seen the contracts for such a sale; if his attention has been drawn to the legal case that is being taken by the board of the school to stop the deal closing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47394/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of a college (details supplied) will be supported in its endeavours including the legal proceedings to stop the sale of playing pitches in view of the fact that this school is funded by his Department and the fields are vital green space used by the students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47395/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Files (9 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the correct procedure to be followed with regard to patient files; the category of person that can put information into such a file; the appropriate information to be placed in such files; his views on whether information with regard to an allegation of inappropriate behaviour of a staff member to the patient is included in appropriate information for a...