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- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want it noted that it is not true that the order in front of us is exactly what was agreed at the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle agrees with me. I was going to be rapporteur this week and I decided not to do it because we agree certain things and then other things appear both for next week and for this week. If we are taking seriously working on a consensual basis at the Business Committee, then the Government should not be pulling surprises and having things appear the day after the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which parents will be able to access the subsidies offered under the affordable childcare scheme in September 2017 in view of the fact that there is no onus on childcare providers to offer the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31177/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she envisages the affordable childcare scheme being rolled out in September 2017; the guarantees there are that childcare providers will take up the scheme in order to ensure access to it to all parents that are eligible for subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31176/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the sectoral breakdown of revenue returns in each of the years 2013 to 2016, including PAYE, corporate tax, self employment and those employed via RCT1s, in tabular form. [31551/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grades of persons working in the national shared services office; if these posts are permanent; if positions become vacant, if the persons will be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30883/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a report on the appeal by a company (details supplied) of the Scope findings regarding alleged abuse of RTC1s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31550/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the place finder service works; the way in which homeless persons or persons at risk of homelessness access this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30987/17]
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was because we do not believe in EU austerity.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated during the week, it is the hallmark of a tin-pot dictatorship to retain emergency legislation after the emergency is officially over. Mubarak did it for 25 years and it is done in all sorts of tyrannical and dictatorial-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. That is what is being done, as this is emergency legislation when the emergency is over, even according to the Government. What is the legislation designed to do? It is to bully and intimidate public sector workers, create a two-tier pay structure and accelerate the race to the bottom. The FEMPI legislation is a textbook example of what Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. This...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a neo-liberal wet dream and the parties want to hold on to it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth hurts.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because of the interruptions.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have indeed. At the end of this so-called pay restoration, public sector workers will still earn less than what they earned in 2008, when Fianna Fáil started it and before Fine Gael continued the latter's policies. That is shocking. This affects our young teachers, nurses and, let us not forget, the ushers who come in here and who have also been affected by a two-tier system,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe for the publication and enactment of legislation dealing with low-hour contracts and precarious work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30475/17]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did and I apologise for coming in and out. It is useful to have a chance to ask Mr. McDowell questions because I do not fully know about the workings of the bank. I understand the broad principles, but it is very helpful to get a clearer and more detailed picture. The EIB lends directly to a state for its own projects which are on balance sheet. It also does public private partnership...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of conditionality does the EIB put on the loans? Is it primarily about the strategic nature of the investment or the ability of the particular project to be self-financing and therefore able to pay?