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Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are then running into Private Members' time.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So we just adjourn the debate.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not have adequate time because it is now Private Members' time.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be fine if I had three or four minutes but then I would be running into Private Members' time.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no desire to drag out this, but I would have needed more than 30 seconds.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Such as giving consultants in Irish Water lots of money.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I hear words like “efficiency” and “cost effectiveness”, I immediately get the jitters because they are often code for cuts. The notion of cost effectiveness is narrowly defined. It is cost-effective to the value of €260,000 in 2016, according to the Minister of State. This is a new figure that has jumped out since we asked about the savings on...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State is contradicting everybody.

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government on Committee Stage did not really seem to take on board the points Deputy Catherine Murphy and I made on Second Stage. There are two reasons to be concerned and oppose the legislation. We may have a chance to discuss one of these before debate on the Bill finishes today. The Government is rolling in two elements, one of which is an international treaty and the other is the...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Roll on that rebellion.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will calculate the extra revenue that would be created by introducing the following changes in income tax rates: a 50% band rate on earnings between €100,000 and €140,000; a 55% rate on earnings between €140,000 and €180,000; a 60% rate on earnings between €180,000 and €250,000; and a 65% rate on earnings...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Transactions Tax (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will calculate the additional revenue that would be raised by introducing the EU Commission's proposed financial transaction tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28558/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (1 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will calculate the extra revenue raised by imposing a 12.5% minimum effective corporate tax rate on gross trading profits before deductions and allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28559/14]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing my time with Deputies Shane Ross and Ruth Coppinger. I appreciate that the Taoiseach has had to go, but there are a few points I hope the Minister of State, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, will pass on to him. I really want to focus on two areas. First, in a speech, the points made in which have been much repeated by the Government, the Taoiseach referred to the priorities of growth...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a contradiction in what the Minister of State just said. On the one hand, she says a person such as the one I described would have to take priority but, on the other, she is saying people in the HAPS can apply for a transfer and, based on the number of years waiting, can have a reasonable expectation that the position in respect of those years of waiting will somehow be preserved.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can those two things be true at the same time?

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the point. In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, for example, which I am sure is much the same as anywhere else, there will be two houses allocated this month, if we are lucky. There are already approximately 25 people on the priority list in dire circumstances. Their cases are similar to those I have just described. Therefore, the only choice available to the local authority is to...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State saying that, of the two houses that will be allocated, one will be allocated to the person in absolutely dire circumstances while the other will be allocated to people on the basis of their time waiting?

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will not happen and cannot happen. If we are lucky, there are two houses allocated per month. Consider the case if there were five-----

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister of State is saying is just not serious. She bandies about figures on RAS houses and refers to allocations of 5,000 and NAMA. The Taoiseach said today that NAMA offered 4,000 houses. Although a figure of 4,000 has been bandied about for three or four years, only 300 have been delivered nationally. Therefore, what has been said is just rubbish. Let me outline why this...