Results 19,761-19,780 of 26,953 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to speak about this because there is probably no more important a subject we could discuss than strategic investment, which is the key to getting this country out of the economic mess it is in. This Bill is long overdue. The strategic investment bank the Government promised, which I presume is now this strategic investment fund, has taken a long time to come before us for this...
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are plenty of sites in Dún Laoghaire.
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the proposal to build 500 houses on the site of the former open prison at Shanganagh Castle in Shankill?
- Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government will have to give them the money.
- Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The revelations and scandals surrounding allegations of Garda malpractice, corruption, cover-ups and wrongdoing are of the most serious nature. We have had in very quick succession quite shocking revelations about the extent of these practices within An Garda Síochána and allegations regarding the apparent complicity of the Department of Justice and Equality and Governments and...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman gave Deputy Dara Murphy a second round. Can I have a second?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a Second Stage speech and the Chairman allowed Deputy Dara Murphy three extra questions. I just want one.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given what Mr. Taft stated about higher effective rates elsewhere not being detrimental to the levels of corporate investment, is there any evidence to suggest that if, for example, we applied a minimum effective rate to gross profits of, say, 12.5% or increased the nominal rate to approximately 15%, which would still leave our effective and nominal rates significantly lower than everywhere...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean if one applied a minimum effective rate of 12.5% on the gross profits of €70 million.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Then one could have all of the allowances and deductions kicking in after one paid 12.5%.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have it on income tax and it is not new.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have it on income tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would not make much difference if the real effective rate is 12.5%.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman let Deputy Dara Murphy in three times.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question was considerably shorter than even one of Deputy Dara Murphy's.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman certainly will not be doing me a favour. That is for sure.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even though implicit rates are higher than that everywhere else in Europe, according to Oireachtas figures.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But it does not sell this stuff to third parties because the whole point with regard to the companies with which we are dealing-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and precisely what characterises them is they keep their stuff to themselves. They keep their intellectual property, patents, software systems or whatever it is to themselves and sell the product precisely on the basis that one buys it uniquely from them and can get it from nobody else.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To use a phrase, it strikes me that there are lies, damned lies and multinational accountancy practices and that there is enormous scope for abuse with regard to how the company quantifies the cost and value of these patents. It strikes me that this is one of the key mechanisms that allows such companies to write down their taxable profits and that this area must be examined a hell of a lot...