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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not wish to spend much time on matters that have already been covered, such as the intricacies of medium-term objectives and the fiscal rules. I will concentrate on a view I hold and which was also expressed by a number of witnesses during our deliberations on the budget, which is that the fiscal space available, notwithstanding debates on whether we should recalculate it this or that...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about the financial cost of it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister compared, from a financial point of view, the efficiency of direct build as against HAPS? Direct build gives the State an asset and revenue stream, whereas the HAPS payment is money out that we do not recoup. Has the Minister done any mathematics on that? Again on housing and property, given the limited fiscal space and the need to raise revenue for housing and other...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister give us the answer to the financial question on the housing expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask one brief supplementary question?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister confirm there is a change in the balance of public housing output as envisaged in Rebuilding Ireland? At present, Rebuilding Ireland proposes 87,000 houses will be delivered out to 2020 through the housing assistance payment as opposed to 40,000 through various forms of direct provision. This is two thirds to one third, with two thirds being current expenditure going out,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister considering shifting this balance? Surely the balance should be the other way around. Even if we accept the Minister's argument that the housing assistance payment is a temporary measure, Rebuilding Ireland does not propose it as a temporary measure. It proposes it as two thirds of the housing plan out to 2020. It is all money out the door with nothing returned in the long...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean the State building houses, which are then State assets and which generate rental revenue for the State, as against relying on private landlords and money going out the door every year that never comes back to us. It is just money out the door.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a financial matter.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: Everything is a financial matter-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Richard Boyd Barrett: A big one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, will next meet. [39620/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask the Taoiseach again about the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016, whether it was discussed at the health committee meeting and the decision of the Government and its representatives on the Joint Committee on Health to support stopping the Bill even though it had passed Second Stage. As a doctor, how can the Taoiseach stand over a report that is essentially...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (27 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate with Tusla the steps taken regarding a report in 2016 of mental, physical and sexual abuse by other service users and staff circa 2010 to 2012 at a charity made by a person (details supplied); and if she will further investigate the complaints of the person that reports were not taken seriously or investigated...
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for sure.
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is important, when considering the issue of Brexit and what is happening in the European Union more generally, that we do not lose sight of the wood for the trees. We are always in danger of doing precisely that on a whole range of issues and certainly on the issue of Brexit. We will try to focus on issues that I fully accept are very important for the many who are affected and the...
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is exactly what is happening in Germany I am afraid. The areas where the far right has grown are the poorest parts of east Germany where services have been cut, unemployment is higher, de-industrialisation has taken place and jobs have been lost. That is where the far right grew. There are 14 million people unemployed in the eurozone and 18 million unemployed in the wider European...
- UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a fact. The problem is that if we do not recognise what people are feeling, they will look for nastier alternatives. If we state clearly, however, that the problems of inequality, poverty, deprivation and the growing gap between rich and poor need to be addressed and if we identify what policies created these problems in the first place, we can win over the allegiance of people who...
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for new legislation to ensure proper wages and conditions for workers and full tax compliance, with particular emphasis on bogus self-employment, in all public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40479/17]