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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will see. Much as the Minister can get the laughter and he is a very witty character, there is no doubt about it. The problem is that Ireland is the laughing stock of the international scene because we record growth rates which bear absolutely no relation to the real economy or the lived reality of human beings in Ireland. I would not say they would be sharing the joke. In fact they...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sympathetic to the issues Deputy Donnelly has raised, but in trying to develop something that would assist people in these circumstances, it must be tightly managed so that it is not subject to abuse or exploitation or become another loophole through which people can profit. If it were not done properly or set up with that danger in mind, it could be open to abuse. That said, I am...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that have benefited from the special assignee relief programme for each of the years 2012 to 2015; the amount which was claimed for each year; the amount of tax foregone for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish special purpose vehicles, SPVs, registered with the Revenue Commissioners for tax purposes; the number of SPVs that operate in a tax-neutral fashion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34054/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a "No".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are saying "No" then.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my question on unaccompanied children in Calais.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Three Deputies asked questions on the issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the sub-committee discussed the question of unaccompanied children in Calais? As the Taoiseach knows, given that I raised the issue with him last week, there have been discussions with the Business Committee and so on, and a specific request from the Not On Our Watch group that 200 unaccompanied children who are in serious danger and are very vulnerable are taken in by Ireland. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on European affairs has met; and if he will provide its forward schedule of meetings. [33564/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of the points have been made. This is a new variation on an old and failed theme when the supply of housing in whatever form it takes that people can afford based on their incomes needs to be increased. The Government is instead returning to an old theme, which is to incentivise developers with tax breaks relating to property. The tax break in this case is hoped to increase supply and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the problem.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister say that again?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am surprised by what Deputy Doherty said, although I take his figures seriously on effective demand in the figures for people getting mortgage approval. I would have thought there was a huge problem with effective demand, not just in the ability to gather together a deposit but with regard to the multiples. The evidence for this was very apparent to me when I went to the teachers'...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My solution is to control prices. The State has to deliver large-scale rental or affordable housing through local authorities, mortgage schemes run by the State and so on. The State should control at least a significant amount of the housing stock to provide for people who cannot afford, on their current salaries, what the market is going to charge them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just gave the example of Cherrywood. It is not going to happen in Cherrywood.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to correct one part of that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have no control over what they charge.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will state the very obvious point. Even with the 10% being spoken about by the Minister, they will build it. It will be sold or leased back to local authorities at a discount on the market price. We do not even know what a reasonable profit is in the legislation, and that is how it is defined. It will be relative to the market prices in south Dublin, which are off the scale. Even the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very unlikely.