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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a nagging feeling about this whole session. I am wondering exactly what we are doing here. I know that all this technical work has to be done. When the witnesses say that the risks are all tilted on the downside, it is at that point that I begin to wonder the extent to which all of this goes out the window if certain of those risks materialise. What precisely are we supposed to do...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can he tell us anything about the distribution of that income? Average income can mean very little when we are talking about people at the top doing very well but people at the bottom not doing so well. What does it really tell us and can Mr. McCarthy tell us any more? My reading of the economic growth, and I suspect the feeling of many people, is that the benefit of economic growth is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With regard to the share and distribution of income, wealth and growth over time, there has been much debate about whether it is regressive. It depends on one's definition of "regressive". That is one debate. However, one way to examine these matters is to chart things over time, examine what proportion of income is going to capital and labour and whether that changes over time and look at...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that trend continuing? Perhaps Mr. McCarthy might put a figure on it. My understanding is wage share has dropped by approximately 20% in favour of profit.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In respect of corporation tax, one of the arguments about Apple at the moment is that if we were allocating profits fairly they would not be allocated here but to where the intellectual property was developed. On the other hand, Mr. McCarthy says we are going up the value chain because representatives of some of these companies walk into the companies registration box and, with the stroke of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. McCarthy suggested that the movement of the intellectual property had something to do with the knowledge box initiative of the Government.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was the IP ever in Ireland? Is it in Ireland or is it an accountancy trick?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was never there, though.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Campaigns (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the referenda he proposes to hold during the term of Government. [27126/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting since 2013 for an application for naturalisation to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if persons signing tenancy agreements under the HAP scheme will automatically be put on the council transfer list; when the HAP scheme will be rolled out fully in the four Dublin local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28111/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the additional funding allocation he has received in the context of the housing crisis and the Government's commitment to increase capital spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19757/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Bodies Establishment (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider a national building agency that would directly employ builders to spearhead a public housing building programme in view of his concerns over housing supply, noted in his Department's draft national risk assessment report, and the risk this poses to overall competitiveness and social inclusion....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Home-makers Scheme (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the home-makers scheme in relation to pensions has not been extended to home-makers pre-1994; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the legislation for calculating PRSI contributions in relation to contributory pensions to disregard short-term or summer employment at the time of entry into the system in which it causes a large gap in contributions and hence lowering the yearly average of contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28215/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Waste Management (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the environmental and health impact assessments which have been carried out in relation to human biosolids being used as fertiliser; the regulations in place on the storage and spreading of this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28229/16]

Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This debate, the committee's deliberations and more importantly coming out with a real strategy and plan to deliver a health service that works for all our citizens could not be more critical. One has to put a human face on these things. I know everyone has cases and people they have to deal with. I have tabled several parliamentary questions over the case of a young man, Mark O'Brien, and...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider setting up a State insurance company in order to ensure that the current prices of motor and other insurance are curbed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27593/16]

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister of State and everybody is aware, drivers have been absolutely crucified by enormous increases in car insurance premiums. Overall, they have increased 20% in the last year and are expected to go up another 25% next year. In some categories, it is off the Richter scale. One of the groups that asked me to give a shout out for it is taxi drivers. Huge numbers of taxi drivers...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (29 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to shift the terms of the debate towards looking at a public not-for-profit State-led model. Frankly, I believe the Government is being led by the self-serving propaganda of the private insurance industry. The notion that competition in the private insurance market would produce lower premiums has been proven absolute nonsense. It is exactly their competitive drive for market share...