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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there have been internal recommendations in his Department to change the criteria for accessing back to education allowance; if he will consider allowing greater access to persons applying to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 538. To ask the Minister for Health the way he has ensured the availability of the meningitis B vaccine from the HSE in order to prevent the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the UK and Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16533/17]

Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or Sinn Féin, of course, but there is also the Hague Convention of 1907, which defines neutrality. It is very clear in its definition of it. Article 2 of that convention states "Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power." That convention also states "A neutral power must not allow any of the...

Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This debate on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 is important in and of itself. It also raises several issues about our role in conflict, however. While I support the Bill, I will consider tabling amendments to it on Committee Stage. I am also concerned about the motivation behind this Bill and why the Government is introducing...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak in a similar vein. I have not been a participant in the debates on this Bill to date but I am very supportive of the legislation. I believe it is a significant step forward in a progressive direction to have supervised injecting facilities and to try to create a safer environment for people with addiction problems in which to inject. I would not support any amendment that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will stay with the theme of disability. Probably 1,000 people outside the House are extremely angry regarding the failure of the Government to honour the promise made in the programme for Government. As the Minister knows, there have been several protests in recent months demanding that the Government stick to its promise. It is too late to stick to its promise to ratify the UN...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I pay tribute to United Against Racism and the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland - I know Mr. Memet Uludağ and Mr. Lucky Khambule and others are in the Visitors Gallery - for their efforts in bringing about this debate and in pressing the motion which has been signed by 37 Deputies. I think it is a matter of vital importance. The Taoiseach was praised and praised himself lavishly...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of all plans to restructure the Citizens Information Services and MABS; the cost of this restructure, including any reports he has on the consequences this will have on service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15859/17]

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7:In page 15, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Review and scrutiny 19. The Minister shall, as part of the annual Budget process, produce a report on the operation of the KDB including a consideration of the intersection of the KDB with other tax expenditure measures and its impact on the delivery of an effective tax rate for corporations.”.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 8:In page 15, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Review and scrutiny 19. The Minister shall ensure appropriate annual information exchange between the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners in order to facilitate the publication of information on the cost of this initiative, including the cost to...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did I not win that one?

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 9:In page 15, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Committee scrutiny 19. An annual report on the operation of the KDB including a consideration of the intersection of the KDB with other tax expenditure measures and its impact on the delivery of an effective tax rate for corporations should be presented and discussed by the Joint Oireachtas Committee...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10:In page 16, after line 36, to insert the following: “Intersection with wider enterprise and innovation strategy 25. (1) Companies applying for the KDB certificate should be asked to indicate at the time of application whether they are presently or have been previously in receipt of grants, subsidies, tax incentives or other enterprise or research and...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 11:In page 16, after line 36, to insert the following: “Intersection with wider enterprise and innovation strategy 25. (1) Companies applying for the KDB certificate should be asked to indicate at the time of application whether they are presently or have been previously in receipt of grants, subsidies, tax incentives or other enterprise or research and...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 12:In page 16, after line 36, to insert the following: “Intersection with wider enterprise and innovation strategy 25. Information on the level or frequency of intersection between the KDB and other enterprise or research and development initiatives is to be made available to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in order to inform overall jobs,...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These amendments seek to do two things, to see how this knowledge development box which is a limited tax loophole, intersects with other tax loopholes that I referred to, and what is the overall benefit to the companies that benefit from this and potentially other tax loopholes. The sum total of all these loopholes, the deductions and allowances allowed to the corporate sector generally, of...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not have it.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we need to know. I have given the wider argument. When it comes to the budget, we need to know, and that is what these amendments seek. Whether one agrees or disagrees, there is merit in saying we need to know how much money is forgone. Choices are made in budgets, and we will have to decide whether €50 million, €100 million or whatever should be forgone...

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:In page 14, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:“(3) The Minister may seek the introduction of appropriate categories or sectoral headings in respect of applications and request information from the Controller as to the proportion of applications under each heading.”.

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 15, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(h) figures in respect of the geographical or regional distribution of applications,”.