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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the latest developments in Palestine at any of the recent European Council meetings since December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7795/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the latest developments in Syria at any of the European Council meetings since December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7796/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any discussions he had regarding the developing situation in Ukraine at any of the recent European Union Council meeting he attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9979/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of recruitment to the public sector under the aegis of his Department since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18258/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 455. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow may have access to Fampyra, which is a much needed treatment for that person's medical condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 636. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent resignations from the board of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; if his attention has been drawn to any legal proceedings being taken against the harbour company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18620/15]

Challenges Facing the European Union: Statements (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Europe is supposed to mean anything, it should be about international solidarity among the peoples of Europe and creating a beacon of progress and an agency of peace in the world. However, that is not what the EU looks like today. We have war in Ukraine, in which Europe has a hand, hundreds of people desperately trying to get into Europe to escape terrible situations in the developing...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the figures on the revenue garnered each year, since their introduction of the household tax, the local property tax, the universal social charge and the pension levy, providing figures and totals for each year; the overall total since their establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17568/15]

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is doing its level best to trumpet and spin a supposed give-back to workers in the coming budget. My question seeks to put any so-called give-back in the context of how much workers and ordinary citizens have actually lost since 2008 on the various austerity taxes and charges, be it the local property tax, LPT, the universal social charge, USC, the pension levy or the...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 2011, up to €13 billion has been raised through the USC, €2 billion through the pension levy and close to €1 billion through the property tax. This has been an enormous gouging of moneys from the pockets of workers over recent years. We were told the property tax would improve local services. The USC was to be a social charge, while we discovered that the pension...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is right that I and others have been raising these issues for the past several years. It is useful, however, to see what the totals are and how much has been taken from the pockets of people who had no responsibility for the economic crisis. What have they got back for it? Nothing. That puts into context what the Minister claims he will give back to them. Another point I...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us a break. Are those who speculate on the Stock Exchange workers too? I do not think so.

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The super-rich did not. Denis O’Brien did not.

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the millionaires?

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish he would answer the question.

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is The Sunday Timesrich list a load of nonsense? Does Denis O’Brien not have all that money?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Inequality (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance if he acknowledges, following the recent publication of The Sunday Times rich list, The TASC report, Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland, and the Credit Suisse report on Global Wealth, that there is overwhelming evidence of a dramatic concentration and increase in the wealth of the very richest in Irish society; his views on whether a...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The context for this debate is what happened to ordinary citizens in this country in 2012. When some of us on this side of the House screamed in opposition to the vicious cuts imposed, particularly in budget 2012, that hit the most vulnerable people and when many people in this House asked in the same year whether the unsustainable debts of tens of thousands of ordinary mortgage holders who...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not. Government Deputies piled in and then-----

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not accept the reasons and the Government Deputies did pile in.