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Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not have many questions because I agree with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's proposals, which would be very helpful. The council suggests the model for the parliamentary budget office, PBO, should be somewhere between the current proposal and a model in which it plays an extensive role. Will Professor McHale elaborate a little on that suggestion?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council proposing that it have a role in assessing these costings? Would it provide analysis, particularly of alternative budget proposals, in its engagement with us in September?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In terms of the information available to us in the context of these debates, is there a major gap in terms of whether the information provided on corporation tax is detailed and up to date? I do not know if I have ever pointed out to Professor McHale that when Deputies ask questions about corporate tax, the most recent figures supplied to us are from 2011. This is extraordinary when one...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it be possible to have provisional figures based on the tax paid, even if qualified by the fact that they could change when the final figures are processed?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While it is not Mr. Coffey's fault, it is extremely unsatisfactory that we cannot show the pattern over time in the different tax categories, up to as recently as possible, and what it represents as a proportion of overall tax revenue. It would be very helpful for us to understand the pattern over time, not just what we are proposing in any given year in terms of adjusting tax and...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like that.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope that suggestion can be taken on board. While I take the point about digging, the time to dig and collate is limited, as it probably is for the witnesses too. To have this kind of information available in easily digestible tables would be extremely helpful for us.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the system of direct provision, including a detailed timeline; if the human rights of asylum seekers are being vindicated under the current system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17148/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Burial Grounds (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline Glasnevin Trust's system of appointing members to its board; and his views on this system and whether it is in line with best practice. [17422/16]

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister does not accept is just how greedy the people concerned are and what they were willing to do. They were trying and willing to ratchet up charges by between 50% and 200%. All we are getting from the Minister is a promise that it will not happen for 12 months, but there is no promise that it will not happen in the future. We have been down this road before; it happened 15...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why will the Minister not pass the measure we propose which would cap charges and reintroduce waivers? The reason is the waste companies do not want him to do so.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister must balance his loyalty to the profit seeking bandits with what is a jury that has come in on the private waste industry and privatisation.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have made a mess of private waste collection. They are racketeers and extortioners and should be put out of business.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should bring waste collection services back within public ownership and have a fair way to pay for them.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mass movement against water charges is set to score two victories in a week. It is forcing the Government to reverse a scandalous effort by private waste companies to hike in charges to extortionate levels, and later in the week the Government will be forced to climb down in its effort to inflict water charges on people. The movement against water charges was a child of the movement...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the song "Imagine", John Lennon asked us to imagine if there were no countries and a brotherhood of man. That is the view held by socialists. We do not believe in national borders or frontiers. We believe there is one race, the human race. Frankly, I find it frustrating, to put it mildly, that a previous speaker suggested that those of us who are critical of the European Union and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the next British-Irish Council meeting. [16863/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are now being shot.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We in People Before Profit want absolutely nothing to do with some of the vile and racist forces that are campaigning for an exit from the European Union in Britain, some of whom have stoked up the sort of racist conditions and sentiment that took the life of Labour MP, Jo Cox. We must all dissociate ourselves from that. Having said that, I disagree with the consensus in the House that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to campaign in Britain on the referendum on a British exit from the European Union. [17144/16]