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Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to add my voice to the comments pointing to the urgency and importance of that. I welcome the fact that-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry. In that case, I will raise another matter. The disability equality (miscellaneous provisions) Bill involves the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is on the legislative programme and is listed in the programme for Government. The Tánaiste can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that she suggested that the Bill would be in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a commitment to full restoration of pay to public sector workers that experienced pay reductions of up to 20% between 2008 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a person on a low income such as a social protection disability payment should be charged for every bank transaction in a bank (details supplied) while others on higher incomes are charged little or no fees; his further views on whether this is social discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36633/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prescribed low protein foods are required to prevent neurological damage and to supplement the diet of adults and children with phenylketonuria, PKU; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that no new low protein products have been added to the long-term illness card list in more than six years;...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interests of not keeping us here all night I will take the Minister's response and consider it so I will not press this for now. Some mechanism must be found to force these companies to cough up the information. If there is a real problem in us not getting the information as the Minister suggests - I will think about what he has said - it is a reasonable point. We need to take a...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 83:In page 64, line 16, to delete "may" and substitute "will"

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 83 is different from the previous amendment.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 84:In page 65, to delete lines 8 to 10.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want it to be a legal requirement that Revenue will provide the information and not that it may do so. We do not want it to be just at the discretion of Revenue. I do not see why Revenue needs discretion or flexibility in respect of this matter and I do not understand why there is a need for confidentiality. Our inability to ascertain where these multinationals are making their profits,...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 82:In page 63, line 15, after “subsection (4)” to insert “and that is published and made available for public viewing by the Revenue Commissioners”. This series of amendments seeks to make country by country reporting requirements for multinationals or corporations operating in multiple jurisdictions-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is very difficult at this stage to string two or three coherent sentences together, but I will do my best.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Durkan. I appreciate the vote of confidence. It might lead him to support the amendment. I am glad the Government has agreed to introduce country by country reporting. Those who are fighting for tax reform in the area of corporate tax to try to clamp down on aggressive tax avoidance strategies of multinationals have long argued that country by country reporting is key to...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not go over the ground already covered but I asked a question on Committee Stage, the answer to which I would like confirmed. If there is no distribution in dividends from the income that is generated by these vehicles but instead the profits are rolled up and used to buy even more property by these vehicles, so that all of the profit gets rolled up into capital gain, the withholding...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Anybody who understood that reply deserves a double A+.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, it is crazy for us to continue with this Bill dealing with detailed and complicated matters, including tax matters, at this-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: For us to continue, as is necessary for us to do our job of proper legislative scrutiny, at these hours, which are anti-social and keep the staff here late-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Government to conclude the debate now and defer the rest of it until tomorrow morning.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This was not brought up at the Business Committee.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We discussed this issue at length. Deputy Doherty's amendment covers similar territory to that covered in the previous discussion and some of the discussions we had earlier, so there is not a lot to add other than to ask if there is any recognition on the part of the Government that we have a property bubble. Is there any concern about that, and that these property-based tax incentives, the...