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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.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has not been lodged yet, though.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not actually say that.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: She said they were free to make a claim.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2785/17]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the central discussions at Davos - ironically, given that it is packed full of multi-billionaires and the world's elite - was inequality. One could not make it up. In so far as it was discussed, Oxfam made a shocking presentation revealing that eight billionaires own the same amount of personal wealth as the poorest 50% of the world's population. The presentation made it clear that...