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- Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The subtext of the Minister's response is that young people just want to sit around collecting money.
- Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the subtext.
- Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the implication of what the Minister is saying. The reason young people have taken up employment is not because the Minister cut their benefits, but because young people want to go out and work. They want meaningful, properly paid work, which is very difficult to find, and work that will enable them to pay to put a roof over their heads is even more difficult to find for many young...
- Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister more or less said it.
- Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in budget 2018 restoring both reduced rates of jobseeker's payments for those under 25 years of age in order that they are equal to those over 25 years of age and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39630/17]
- Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I repeat that in parliamentary questions last year and again this year we confirmed that if we created a new band for employers' PRSI for people who are employed on incomes over €100,000, it would result in hundreds of millions in additional revenue. That would be fair and would help to generate money. Another big area is tax relief for wealthy pensioners. Hundreds of millions of...
- Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in budget 2018 extending the homemaker's scheme to ensure women who took time off work to raise their families will not be at a loss; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39629/17]
- Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When will we receive the report on how we will deal with discrimination against homemakers who brought up their kids in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and who, because the homemaker's credit does not extend back to those years, are being discriminated against in their pension entitlements? I refer also to the issue of the averaging of pensions after former Minister for Social Protection Joan...
- Other Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the question of where the additional money can be obtained, I accept that additional money is needed, but I will tell the Minister where it can be found. The employers' PRSI contribution in this country is so far below the norm elsewhere in Europe that it is shocking. In fact, the big gap in tax revenue by comparison with most of our European counterparts is precisely the shortfall in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: About public procurement and public contracts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach considering changing or inserting serious conditions and penalties in public contracts and public procurement where firms awarded contracts by the State are found not to be in compliance with the tax code, are fraudulent in their tax affairs or are, as is the case, I would argue, with some accountancy firms here encouraging tax avoidance strategies for wealthy people? I...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the right to a home?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is disingenuous.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful to the Taoiseach in his consideration of the question I asked, the proposed amendment to the Constitution seeks to define the common good as specifically including the right to secure and affordable housing and further requires the Government to prioritise the allocation of resources and its policies to vindicate that right. There is no compulsion to live in social housing as...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Six years of failed and flawed policies by a Fine Gael and Labour Party Government and, more recently, a Fine Gael, Independent and Independent Alliance Government have left us with a national housing and homelessness emergency. I want to know more about the references the Taoiseach belatedly made - six years too late - to the possibility of NAMA, instead of flogging land and property as it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee D (Infrastructure) will next meet. [39619/17]
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Ceann Comhairle want me to read it out?
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have it.
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (20 Sep 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----