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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Dún Laoghaire constituency in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4993/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that was allocated to the Dún Laoghaire constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016 by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4994/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4995/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (2 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that was allocated to the Dún Laoghaire constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016 by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4997/17]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is just not deleting it. That is slightly different.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let those who are on the committee deal with the more technical point that seems to be raised, if they can answer it. Clearly, the suggestion that amendment No. 10 is removing protections is absolutely not the intention. It is also not entirely clear that is what it does. As I understand it, it leaves in place some of the existing legislation, which should be amended.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To deal comprehensively with all the legislative aspects of trying to decriminalise sex work, which is the intent of our amendment, one would require further amendment of the 1993 Act. We take that point, but I do not think the suggestion that what we are doing is removing protection is correct. Deputy Catherine Connolly and others might add to what I said in that regard. On the substantive...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you going to do anything about it? That is what I asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [4125/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know whether the committee has or will discuss several very specific areas of housing. People who do not have drug or drink problems, or who are trying to recover from alcohol or drug problems and are clean of them, are being put in emergency accommodation with active drug users or people with addiction problems. I am dealing with several cases of this nature at present. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to a company that did not exist and Revenue had allowed that to happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach meets them a fair bit in the Clearing House Group as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They still pay their taxes, do they not? Is that too much to ask?

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because the Deputy wants to go.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the extreme centre?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Cabinet Committee on European Affairs discussed the issue of the European Commission ruling on Apple's tax affairs in this country? Does the Taoiseach intend having further discussions about the Government's highly reprehensible decision to refuse the €13 billion that the European Commission believes is owed to the Exchequer in Apple taxes after the Commissioner Vestager's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That company was not taxed.