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- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Bin charges were in place for eight years by then.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did yesterday.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, that has to change.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well said. I agree with the Deputy, except for the jibe about Trotsky.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason we are having this debate is that I pressed for six weeks at the Business Committee to schedule a discussion on the progress or lack of it on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. That follows six years of Fine Gael Government since 2011, during which time I and others, week in, week out, told five different Ministers that the Government's policies were...
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us not forget the extreme centre.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Acquisition (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a response from the Christian Brothers regarding the playing pitches at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31797/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Acquisition (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a formal offer to the Christian Brothers to hand over the playing pitches at a school (details supplied) in lieu of some of the moneys owed to the redress board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31798/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will bring forward the legislation to allow for equal access for all children to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31578/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review all school lands and examine the way in which to protect the lands for the use of schools into the future, in view of recent issues that have arisen with regard to the sale of lands at schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31799/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitments in the programme for Government to improve the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]
- Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a difficult argument to sustain.
- Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the estimate referring to expenditure by people who would come to visit. That is obviously significant and would generate employment, spin-off activity and tax revenue. I note in passing, because it is relevant, that we need to look again at the 9% VAT rate. The rate was brought in because the economy was on its knees. There was an argument about the need to resuscitate...
- Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Like Deputy Barry and many others who have spoken or commented on this Bill, I believe we would all welcome a globally important sporting event such as the Rugby World Cup to the country for a range of reasons. Obviously, significant numbers of people in this country appreciate the sport and many people play and love the sport. There also will be potentially a significant economic benefit...
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It amazes that the Minister does not acknowledge the scale of the damage and distortion the movement of these funds into the property market has caused. I ask him to tell us, although I know that he will not, how much tax has been forgone as a result of section 110 and the REIT tax breaks. We can never get an answer to that question. They are still benefiting from them and, as we know,...
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the accountancy firms.
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the tax breaks for real estate investment trusts and vulture funds in view of the fact that they are in many cases sitting on properties and the desired affect of increasing supply is not being realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31473/17]
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for the first time, it was reported in the newspapers at the weekend in respect of REITS and vulture funds, which are co-investors with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, which is the State investment fund, and which are involved in real estate and the SME sector, that two of them, Cardinal Capital and BlueBay, paid €250 in tax each in 2015. Does the Minister not think...
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the central justifications for these extraordinary tax breaks for REITs and vulture funds - the section 110 structure allowing these companies to benefit from it and the REIT tax breaks introduced by various Finance Acts - was encouraging investment in property in Ireland and resuscitating the property sector, presumably to do something basic like provide housing for people. To this...