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- Other Questions: Media Mergers (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline his views on the future of media plurality here in view of the existing proposals with regard to the sale of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5811/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will leave it at that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think it is ironic that Deputy Adams should attack People Before Profit in the name of jobs in the North when Sinn Féin, Fine Gael, the DUP and the Tories took specific action in supporting the Stormont House Agreement which condoned and set out the plan to axe 20,000 jobs in the public sector in the North? It was an austerity deal, an almost carbon copy of the one...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Citizens' Assembly members said it was useless.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: More delay.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for constitutional referenda during 2017. [5815/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit and the Anti-Austerity Alliance put forward a Bill proposing an immediate referendum on repealing the eighth amendment. The Government and Fianna Fáil voted it down last year on the basis that they would allow the Citizens' Assembly to examine the issue. Our view was that delaying a referendum and batting this issue to the Citizens' Assembly was a completely...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is absolutely right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody here is casting any aspersions on the 150,000 workers who work in the multinationals that operate here. Nobody has suggested that any such aspersions should be cast. It is a complete red herring. I would like to pick up on a line of questioning from earlier in this meeting. Apple is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. Does Mr. Redmond have any reason to believe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, but how-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think that is a consistent answer because even though this issue is now the subject of legal proceedings, Mr. Redmond was quite happy a moment ago to say he believes that what Revenue told this committee was correct, while refusing to say that he believes what Apple said to the Senator congressional committee was correct. Why is he willing to quote an argument that suits Apple and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Representatives of Apple told the congressional committee that there was a deal, but when they subsequently discovered that this statement might cost the company €13 billion, they suddenly concluded that there was no deal and decided to fight it in court. Could Mr. Redmond forgive a poor layperson looking at this for believing that it stretches their intelligence and their credulity?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I think any reasonable person looking at it would say the company has been caught with its pants down. It said something it believed to be true at the time, but it decided to backtrack on that at a later point when it discovered that it was going to cost it dearly. I think that is what any reasonable person looking at this would conclude. We will move on. I think the point has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am asking Mr. Keegan about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With due respect, I heard Mr. Keegan's opinion on this issue very clearly earlier in this meeting. He said he believes the Commission is interfering and has made the wrong call on this matter. We get that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With due respect, the issues that Mr. Keegan is willing to address, although Mr. Redmond will not, are the subject of the legal case. Mr. Keegan has given his opinion but the issues are the subject of a legal case. Dr. Stewart has made the opposite argument that legally the profits accrue to Ireland. Opinions may differ but the matter will be adjudicated by the European Court of Justice....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Keegan's work involves tax matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Keegan think it is morally acceptable that a company can earn €22 billion in one year yet pay less than 1% tax, wherever that tax might be paid?