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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister for his illuminating responses so far. I do not want to labour the past history too much except in so far as it is actually relevant to what we do from here, but one of the things that there seems to be across the board recognition of, certainly on this committee, is that we have had a dangerously low level of capital and infrastructure development investment for some...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pre-tax corporate profits are about €95 billion. That is from the last figures that I saw but maybe that could be corrected. We are getting about €6 billion back in revenue, which is roughly 6% on pre-tax profits. Figures from earlier years show the gross pre-tax profits from before deductions and allowances were about €70 billion. That is an extraordinary jump in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It works out at about 6%. Does the Minister not think we should look at this? We have spoken of insulating ourselves from the effects of Brexit but surely the real lesson is to diversify our economy. Our small open economy, which could also be referred to as the "leprechaun economy", is making us very vulnerable. The productivity of the Irish worker is off the Richter scale, in fantasy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should not have taken on that debt.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not. I never suggested borrowing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I pointed to the capital area.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not theory - it is money.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sadly, we are heading in that direction.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what they said in 2006.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That would be for private investors.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last point was on diversification of the economy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is none of them in Dún Laoghaire.

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes that: — 937,000 breath tests that never occurred were falsely recorded on the Police Using Leading Systems Effectively (PULSE) system, and that the existence of a problem in this regard was communicated to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are committee members being called first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The term "expertise" has been used a lot. What specific experience, knowledge or expertise do the Department of Health officials or the PSI representatives have in the area of medicinal cannabis, research in that area or clinical expertise in the specific area of medicinal cannabis products? My understanding - I am happy to be contradicted - is that they have no such knowledge, expertise or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want the Department of Health's comment on those allegations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Department not trust doctors to prescribe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what the Bill is proposing. That is factually incorrect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not.