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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I request that the delegates, in providing us with the figures on the effective rate, give us the figures for the various calculations. The delegates know precisely what I mean. There is the implicit rate, the aggregated version and all the other versions, which vary radically. Mr. Howard stated there was an effective rate of 9% in 2015. I calculate €6.8 billion paid as a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want an explanation of how it was done. I want the different calculations provided.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is actually not what I want. The Department of Finance prepared a paper on the corporation tax rate. It is a very good paper which explained that there are at least four different ways of calculating the effective rate. That paper showed that one can get, for the very same year on the basis of the same figures, a variation in the effective tax rate. The rate can be around 6% if it is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to point out to the Acting Chairman and the committee that this is a real problem. We have a paper produced by the Department of Finance that shows that there are at least four different ways of legitimately calculating the effective rate. The figures produced vary very significantly. One can have what is considered a legitimate method of calculating the effective corporation...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Figure 2 on page 2.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Over 2014?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How far back could Revenue go in terms of its ability to reproduce that graph? Could it be done for 2016?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it be possible to provide us with the same graph for the previous ten years? Would that be a lot of work or-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This graph is not on the website.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I must be honest that I find it difficult. The thing I presume the witnesses are referring to on the website is a paper which is not very readable and which was quite difficult to find. It is not as clearly set out as a previous manifestation which used to be available.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not really okay but we will see how we go from here. By the way, I do appreciate all of the witnesses' work, even if I am being a bit pushy.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It worries me that over recent weeks, the only serious policy issue that emerged was the rather shocking attack by Deputy Varadkar on welfare cheats and a group of people who supposedly do not get up before 7 a.m. That was a new low in politics. It was very divisive and showed a deep level of prejudice against those who suffer inequality and hardship but skated over the fact that, as...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wonder where Deputy Burton got that idea.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Coppinger and-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the clock.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry. First, I extend my sympathies to the victims of the horrendous fire in London. We do not yet know how many there are but the scenes are shocking and we should extend our support for, and solidarity with, the people there. We do not know why the fire took place, but very serious questions are being asked. I am no expert in this...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for ending pay inequality across the public sector in the context of the public sector pay talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26271/17]
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This week, I went out and joined lesser-paid rank-and-file teachers from the INTO, the ASTI and the TUI who were protesting against the fact that there is a categorically of lesser-paid teachers - people who are employed as teachers post-2011 or 2012. They want to know whether as part of these pay talks, the Minister will commit to the principle of equality. By equality, they mean there is...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The protest the other day was organised by the rank and file. They are ordinary teachers, mostly young, who are in this lesser-paid category. The reduction in the level of inequality the Minister referred to in rather technical language still leaves a situation whereby under the Minister's proposals, teachers, ushers or other public sector workers who came in after 2011 will over the course...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We hear all the usual chestnuts but the Minister does not answer the question, which is whether we are going to have equality. Are we going to have equality for people with the same professional training who will work the same number of years? In fact, they will work more years because of other attacks. Are we going to have a single pay scale for all of them or will we continue with the...