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- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (5 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately halt the transporting and trading of greyhounds from Ireland to China due to the cruel treatment that these dogs experience in transit to China and once they reach there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28898/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we support bombing of Syria by the West?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the European Council President, Donald Tusk. [27125/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will comment on what I see as the stunning lack of self-reflection and self-criticism from Donald Tusk and, for that matter, from the Taoiseach. Donald Tusk said in his speech here that people are turning against what they perceive as an irrational openness and that they see the world around them getting more chaotic with uncontrolled migration and terrorism. First, these are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the criticism of Britain bombing Syria 43 times in the past six months? Where is the criticism? There is none.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the criticism of US, French and British arms sales to the Saudi regime that has killed 10,000 people in Yemen? Where is the criticism? If there is no consistency in our humanitarian standards and in our opposition to bombing and war, then we have no standards, and everyone knows that it is no more than opportunistic and cynical.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the disaster in Syria, what is happening in Yemen and so on not an opportunity for Europe, the Government and, for that matter, Deputy Martin to start having a little consistency in their human rights standards?
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would support it also.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I said we support that debate.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Which graph are we on?
- 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]