Results 14,401-14,420 of 27,076 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has ignored the Irish Medical Organisation.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely not. The Government absolutely let Vera Twomey down consistently. Ask her.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the figure for the gross manufacturing and non-manufacturing trading profits in 2015 or 2016? Amazingly, this does not have it. It is inexplicable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This, to me, is crucial. It is telling that we do not get that figure. How do we know whether a proper tax rate is being paid unless we are given that figure in their initial paper?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would point out, in terms of the availability of this information, that we find out this information two or three years late. Maybe they could give me the average. They give the increase in trading profits by sector in 2015, all of which, interestingly, are up significantly. There was an incredible increase in profits, of 5% in health and social work, 10% in transportation, and right up...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some €2.5 billion in non-trading profits.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the figure for total manufacturing and non-manufacturing trade profits for 2015 and 2016, if Dr. Walsh has it?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some €140 billion?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A total of €55 billion was manufacturing.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Publicly available.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. That is the opening gambit, as it were.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but to me, it is telling that it is not shown here. I have difficulty getting these up-to-date figures.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that and thank the Chairman for his help. The figures were not presented initially, and to my mind the most important thing is how much profit is being made. Am I correct - to confirm for the public, who may be interested in these things - that profits are up considerably? Is that right? Yes, very considerably. Profits are up by percentages a good deal in excess of wages,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Non-trading profits, but the vast bulk of profits-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----are trading profits and they are very considerably up. It is an upward trend. The percentages of increases are well outstripping wage increases over that period. Would that be fair to say?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it is indeed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is still a gap.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What I am trying to get at, because I think the public is owed this information, is that profits are going up very considerably and are consistently outstripping increases in remuneration for workers. That bears out what many of us see as a recovery for the few rather than a recovery benefiting the many. That is my point.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No one could possibly dispute there has been increased employment, so we will take that as read.