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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept Deputy Joan Burton's point about minimum effective rates of income tax, but the argument we were making which was not supported by the Government in which she was involved in the previous five years was in favour of having a minimum effective rate of corporation tax. She was in government but did not implement such a measure. I am glad that she is now echoing the point. This...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or the Committee on Budgetary Oversight.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe it is the Deputy's time to speak. Is it? I do not think so.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is strange that for the past five years we have been raising this issue and when the Deputy was in government, strangely enough, they did not implement it.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. They did not implement an effective rate of 12.5% but now they are apparently the ones who invented the proposal. I am glad that they have had a bit of a conversion on that issue because it is an absolute scandal. From figures just pulled from the Revenue website today, the full figure for losses brought forward in 2014 is extraordinary. It is over €215 billion. It is...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy should read them. They were not included in any of her Government's budgets.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were not addressed in any of your budgets.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I just cannot resist it really. When people tell porkies like that it is just too difficult to not respond. It is extraordinary that €103 billion in gross profits results in total tax paid of €4.9 billion. That is not 12.5%. The figure of €4.9 billion tax on €103 billion is 4.75% on gross profits and other earnings. That is the real effective corporate...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The massive extent of losses being carried forward by banks and other big enterprises to write down their taxable income and consequently reduce their tax liability is an unbelievable scandal. There are many other mechanisms and loopholes through which the corporate sector can write down its tax liability. The scale of it is truly staggering and points again and again to the need to impose,...

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...