Results 13,661-13,680 of 27,076 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (24 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of deductions, allowances and reliefs allowing corporations to reduce their tax liability under headings such as intra-agency transfers, research and development, losses brought forward and other such headings; his views on whether such reliefs, deductions and allowances are facilitating large scale tax avoidance and represent bad value as tax...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “equality of treatment between men and women in relation to pension contributions; and” and substitute the following: “— restoration of the State pension age to 65, and where a worker wishes to work after retirement age such a decision should not be driven by economic necessity.”

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I disagree on that.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not know the pilots are coming in.

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak about a promised report in legislation. When the Social Welfare Bill was passed last year, Deputy Bríd Smith had sought an amendment seeking a report on the inequalities faced by pensioners, which we have discussed this week. That affects 35,000 pensioners who are being robbed of a full pension entitlement. At the time, the current Taoiseach and then Minister, Deputy...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is it?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the blocks preventing the immediate ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44195/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Declarations (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to mark the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44196/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure a person should go through if they require surgery in another country; the way in which they receive a referral for the surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if the regulations on health insurance require that a health insurance company here must take into account the number of years that a person returning here has had with an international health insurance company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44353/17]

Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The deafening silence or, worse, tacit complicity of the EU and Irish Government regarding what is now a dangerous and escalating situation in Catalonia is really quite shocking. The Rajoy government is threatening to invoke Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which has never been invoked before, to disband the regional government and impose direct rule on Catalonia, against a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not until 2020.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: President Donald Trump is claiming that Ireland is planning to reduce its corporate tax rate from 12.5% to 8%.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: President Trump is a dangerous and pathological liar and I do not give any credence to those claims. Does it concern the Taoiseach that Ireland is now a watchword for corporate tax avoidance by big multinational companies and for the race to the bottom on corporate tax? President Trump is simply using the low effective rate - the 0% effective rate on big multinational companies like Apple -...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee A (Economy) will next meet. [43786/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which he plans to address the staffing shortages in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department's allocation in budget 2018 will see the issue of chronic low pay addressed in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Health when the new support scheme for IVF will be available; the assistance available until then; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44198/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All expert opinion suggests the formation of hurricane Ophelia was due to rising ocean temperatures which are related to global warming. Does that not prompt the Taoiseach to think we need a far more seriously focused approach to dealing with climate change, rather than what we are doing, which is engaged in special pleading as to why we should be allowed to continue with increased CO2...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In regard to the discrimination against pensioners discussed earlier, I and several others raised this issue when the Taoiseach was the Minister for Social Protection, and he acknowledged then that there was problem with the averaging and a problem with people who did not benefit from the homemaker's credit being discriminated against because it was not retrospective. He acknowledged that a...