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- 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...
- Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Lands (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Coillte's recent announcement that it is examining 25 of its land parcels and seeking partnerships with private developers to develop these sites as industrial wind farms represents a significant diversion and potentially conflicts with its core mandate to protect the national forest estate and promote...
- Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Lands (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister may have read the article, and has probably been made aware by Coillte itself, that it recently announced that it would be looking at 25 of its land parcels with a view to developing large-scale industrial wind farms in partnership with the private sector. Does the Minister not think this is another example of Coillte departing from its core function, which is to be the...
- Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Lands (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: First of all, the 6,000 ha which the Minister is talking about is a massive undershoot on what is necessary in order for us to reach our target, which keeps shifting out in any event, but which is currently to move from a pathetic 11% rate of forest cover to 17%. In deference to my Sinn Féin colleague, I stress that we do not want to see the expansion of the industrial sitka spruce type...
- Priority Questions: Coillte Teoranta Lands (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Putting up these big wind turbines involves pouring masses of concrete for the bases. There are very real questions about whether there is a tangible net benefit in terms of CO2 reduction when the transport costs of bringing concrete up, building roads up to the top of these mountains to put up these wind farms, and so on are taken into account. That is opposed to growing trees, which does...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am amazed at the minimalist approach to the question of what is happening in Catalonia. This is a crisis that potentially not only strips Spain of any kind of democratic legitimacy, but in the failure of the European Union to speak about it, as Deputy Martin pointed out, it potentially strips Europe very significantly of its legitimacy, or what is left of its legitimacy, as a champion of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. One must at least engage with the issue and to say nothing about it is extraordinary. There has also been a minimalist response on digital Europe. The Taoiseach stated this was discussed, but what was the content of the discussion? Intellectual property and intangible assets are the main mechanism through which the most wealthy corporations in the world are dodging tax. It would...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the issues he plans to raise at the upcoming European Council meeting. [44042/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would also say we need to speak out about what is going on in Spain. It is an affront to any notion of democracy that people, whatever one may think of them, who simply organised a vote for people to cast ballots on an issue that concerned them and their right to self-determination, a right that is accepted and enshrined in international law, could now be imprisoned and face very heavy...