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Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I disagree with this. Of course we should encourage people to give up smoking. It is a bad and dangerous habit. I can say that as a smoker.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not good. My children are always trying to persuade me and we should encourage as many people to give up a very bad and dangerous habit as possible but for those on low incomes, who are already struggling and who happen to have this habit and addiction, this is just another tax on their income. A pensioner who has got a miserly €3 a week back in this budget will have that wiped...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Allowances (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like clarification also because there have been instances in regard to aircraft leasing which have been an utter scandal. These are just further examples of the way the Government has crushed people with austerity taxes, charges and other cuts while fostering a regime which facilitates extraordinary levels of tax write-offs to the corporate sector, in particular multinationals. I...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Allowances (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would not surprise me.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This budget is really a cynical bag of pre-election tricks without any substance whatsoever. It will do nothing to deal with the emergency in housing and homelessness, the disaster in public hospitals, or the gaping and growing inequality and poverty in society. I even have to disagree with some of my Opposition colleagues who are calling this a giveaway budget. It is not. A few miserable...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a payment for clothing to a person (details supplied) under the supplementary welfare allowance was refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35201/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Data (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to release the full and detailed breakdown of Irish armament and dual-use export licenses granted to companies exporting to Israel since 2011; the identities of export companies; the full details of the items exported; the end-receivers of said exports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35340/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Contracts (13 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Construction Contracts Bill 2010 becomes law in the life time of the current Government, the deadline for the selection and appointment of members to the adjudication panel; if there will be representatives from groups like the Business Retail Union of Ireland on the adjudication panel; and if he will make a statement on the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Half the target.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolute fantasy.

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They can afford to pay a little more tax.

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government seems to specialise in big and bold, but deceptive, headline announcements when it comes to spending. The latest example of this is the big, bold headline of €27 billion to be spent between now and 2021. Of course, why not have a 20-year plan with an even larger figure, or a 30-year or 50-year plan involving hundreds of billions of euro? It is completely deceptive...

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach leaves every time we get up to speak.

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If ever there was a time for those who have any conscience or any care for human beings to receive a wake-up call, now is that time. The actions of the big powers - the Western powers and Russia - have led to the disintegration of the societies of the vast majority of the war-torn countries from which 12 million people have been displaced and the subsequent unleashing of the worst refugee...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sale of State Assets (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale behind the sale of Coillte’s portfolio of telecommunications assets; his plans to sell off other Coillte assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34217/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Rapid Response Initiative (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of military personnel, by rank, who are on the Irish Aid Rapid Response Corps roster. [34774/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Rapid Response Initiative (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 108. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of military personnel, by rank, for whom Irish Aid has requested releases under the sustainable livelihoods approach. [34775/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Rapid Response Initiative (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of military personnel, by rank, who have been refused release to Irish Aid from the Defence Forces. [34776/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Youth Services Funding (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reverse the decision to cut the Health Service Executive funding for the Oasis outreach project in the Mounttown-Monkstown Farm area, an outreach project for young, vulnerable teenagers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34822/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance (7 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason ten of the 16 social housing units at St. Lawrence’s Park in Stillorgan, County Dublin are empty and are not being considered or offered for social housing at a time of unprecedented demand for such units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34859/15]