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Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I intend to press this to a vote. I want to respond to some of the responses the Minister gave to me this afternoon on the issue of bogus self-employment. His answers on the number of people categorised as self-employed in the construction industry were disingenuous and bordering on misleading the Dáil. I have been trying to establish the precise facts on how many are in the RCT...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has to speak out against the use of that kind of language.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is about the talks with foreign leaders. I was very surprised to read the Taoiseach's tweet at the weekend in which he said he had a really great conversation on the night in question with US Vice President-elect Mike Pence. He stated Mr. Pence certainly knows Ireland and the issues that matter to our people. To be honest, that is a pretty shocking statement. Does the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is left in the total allocation for Question Time?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we limit it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the foreign leaders he is planning to meet between now and Christmas 2016. [36049/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government, under the heading of "Health", states, "Efforts to increase access to safe, timely care, as close to patients’ homes as possible will be a priority". Among other things, I assume this refers to the importance of home care and the need to address its provision because the service has been savaged since 2008. There was an increase in funding in the recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government. [36051/16]

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will still press this. Primarily because of the actions of workers themselves protesting, backed up by some of the trade union movement, there have been some moves in this direction. What the Minister seems to have said, if I heard him correctly, is that when audits are done and when there is a bit of an increased focus on this we end up getting more money in, and the Minister mentioned...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 25:In page 27, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "14.The Minister for Finance is to order a study to be carried out on the operation of Relevant Contracts Tax, particularly in relation to rise in self-employment in the construction industry, and is to report to the Dáil within six months of the enactment of this Act on the findings of the study.". I...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a notion of legitimate tax competition underpinning the Government's view. I ask the Minister and anybody who is open-minded on this to consider the following question. How is it that in the 1950s, 1960s and right up to the 1970s, we could afford the likes of social housing while in Britain they could afford the National Health Service? We had expansion of a public health system...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We had houses.

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to take this sacred cow out of Irish politics. The suffocating consensus on the question of this country's 12.5% rate of corporation tax has dominated the Irish political landscape to the extent that we cannot talk about touching it. It seems that we cannot possibly dream of increasing corporate taxes. I suggest that this terrible consensus has played a key role in spearheading the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Risk Assessment (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his input into the publication of the national risk assessment 2016 overview of strategic risks. [35197/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the numbers of public sector workers counted as wholetime equivalents across each sector; the way in which it compares year on year since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36532/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the demographic changes over the years since 2008 and the way that has impacted on requirements for numbers of public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36533/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the US President-elect, Mr. Donald Trump. [35196/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will protect the family income supplement payment from all means testing across all Departments including for local authority rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36047/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will instruct Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to grant a person (details supplied) early entry into the HAP scheme to prevent them from becoming homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35759/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for affordable lettings in the context of rebuilding Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35915/16]