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Other Questions: State Pensions (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure pension equality by removing the band changes made to the way in which pensions are calculated and reducing the number of contributions needed to qualify for the State pension from 520 to 260; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46798/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is for all transport and not just Irish Rail.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They should all be subsidised.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [44043/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask about the sub-committee on public services and whether it is considering the Government's responsibility for the current rail dispute. Subsidies for transport services, specifically rail services, have decreased dramatically since 2008, from €181 million to €117 million. If the Government was simply to restore the level of subvention to Irish Rail in 2008, Irish...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful, the group is called Solidarity-People Before Profit.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to say the words. My question relates to the so-called Paradise Papers. The Government was supposed to transpose in June this year the EU anti-money-laundering directive which requires that we have information on the ultimate beneficial ownership of companies and corporate entities. This relates very much to the tax dodging of the Irish rich and Irish corporations revealed in...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the collusion of banks, possibly of legislation brought in by this Government, and wealthy individuals in tax evasion.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made my point, indeed.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is on a different point.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am indeed. Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. In relation to the speaking arrangements for the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill, it is completely unacceptable that a report on Deputy Gino Kenny's Bill will commence with 15 minutes from the committee Chair, who is recommending that the Bill, which passed Second Stage, goes no further, and then 15 minutes from the Government,...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not about proportional representation. It is about balance in argument concerning a Bill we put forward-----

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on a very important issue that affects tens of thousands of people with serious medical conditions.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. We have had a break for a week and the issue of the Paradise Papers has arisen. They had already been referred to and might more accurately be called the "Parasite Papers". They reveal a really shocking nexus of bankers, wealthy individuals and corporations dodging taxes. According to some reports-----

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be unconscionable for the House not to debate these shocking revelations this week. I did not raise this issue for discussion today because I knew I would have been doing so at short notice-----

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but I am signalling to the Taoiseach that I hope the Government will facilitate a serious discussion on the matter, in respect of which billions of euro in tax revenue are at stake, and the shocking revelations about-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on her Department's response to a review (details supplied) of the amendments to the one-parent family payment and, in particular, its impact on child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43793/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 655. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons engaging in mental health services that have complaints about service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45802/17]