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- 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...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. I want to ask when the social welfare and pensions Bill, the general scheme of which has been published, will come forward and will the Government deal with this assault on the pension entitlements of workers, such as the Irish Life workers, in defined benefit pension schemes who paid in good faith and expect a decent pension?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Taoisigh and Ministers continue to walk away from the Dáil with massive, gold-plated, guaranteed pensions - it has happened under this and previous Fianna Fáil-led Governments - yet the relentless attack on the pension entitlements of workers continues. The latest attack is in Irish Life, a company that the Government sold and that has remitted €370 million to the parent...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to renew the FEMPI legislation at the end of June 2017 in view of the fact that the economy is no longer in a state of emergency; if so, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26270/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to recent revelations as to the way in which public money may have been misspent and the way in which there may have been a lack of governance in this spending in some third level institutions, the new measures he is planning to put in place to ensure proper oversight of expenditure across all public bodies and institutions;...