Results 19,021-19,040 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (5 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if in formulating his budget 2015 tax proposals, he factored in the overall impact of both direct and indirect taxes to ensure fairness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41768/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason his proposed income tax and universal social charge budget measures disproportionately favour those on higher incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41767/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (5 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm reports that he is working with US multinationals to design the new knowledge box corporation tax scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41766/14]
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While I understand the Government is distracted with the unprecedented popular revolt against water charges which has engulfed it -----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the crisis facing the Government mean that it has changed the promised schedule for bringing forward the other important publication on social housing strategy promised by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government? It was promised before the recent recess that we would have the document and a debate in the House on a crisis that continues. Families are being made...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past few days, some Government spokespeople have indicated the possibility of a referendum on the right to water. Given that the Constitutional Convention supported by 85% the idea that economic, social and cultural rights should be enshrined in the Constitution and, more significantly, given from 150,000 to 200,000 people came out on the streets at the weekend under the broad banner...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask a brief question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of the right to housing and given the housing crisis, is the Taoiseach thinking of responding to the Constitutional Convention's call for these sorts of rights to be enshrined in the Constitution?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the referenda he plans to hold before the end of his term in government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39816/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The greatest slaughter that has taken place in the Middle East in recent times was not, as the Taoiseach has suggested, a result of the people of the region slaughtering each other. The greatest slaughter in the region arose when the United-States-led coalition bombed Iraq back into the Stone Age and, in the process, according to some estimates, took up to 1 million lives directly or...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody said that. Nobody would say that except tax exiles.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he had on his visit to the Middle East in relation to Gaza and the humanitarian crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39814/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the crisis in Iraq and Syria with the Lebanese Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39815/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Taoiseach in view of the Constitutional Convention's commitment to have social economic and cultural rights enshrined in the Constitution, if the Government is going to adopt this in terms of a referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42226/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate the parts of the Constitutional Convention's recommendations the Government will adopt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42227/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (4 Nov 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new travel subsidy scheme to replace the mobility allowance scheme; her plans for associated statutory provisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42096/14]
- Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. There was an understanding at the time that ideas were no one's property. Rather, they were an accumulation of generations of developments and advancements in knowledge. Everyone was standing on the shoulders of everyone else in the development of ideas, literature, innovation, etc. That is the truth. I do not know whether my next point is absolutely true, but I remember reading...
- Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.
- Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the face of it, the introduction of this Bill seems to be a reasonably positive move. As I understand it, we are making it easier for companies to develop generic medicines without running foul of patent laws or infringing intellectual property rights. I can certainly see the value of that. The bigger context for much of this debate is the scandalous manner in which big pharmaceutical...
- Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or you could just abolish the charges.