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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The point is not about personal empathy or so on. That is not what is crucial and is not the reason the Government makes bad decisions. The point is that the policies flow from a certain understanding of how society is to be run. That understanding is then codified, unfortunately, in the fiscal rules. That is the choice Sinn Féin has. Will it sign up to a coalition government which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: If we do not have agreement on what is happening, we will go into the figures. Does the Minister agree, when all the strands are taken in, that the Commission's proposals in total represent close to a doubling of defence spending? According to the Commission's figures, it represents an increase of 1.8 times.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The €13 billion funding in question will end up in the hands of armaments companies. It represents a 22-fold increase in EU investment in defence spending, directly as opposed to indirectly. On 2 May in a communique, the Commission stated in the area of defence:Europe will need to take greater responsibility for protecting its interests, values and the European way of life, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree with the significant increase, even in proportionate terms, in defence spending proposed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government at Council level seek to have the increase in defence spending reduced or eliminated entirely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I take it then the Minister is happy enough for public funds from Ireland and across Europe to end up funding a European military industrial complex and major corporations which make significant money as a result of making instruments of death and weapons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: How does the Minister feel about European public moneys, including Irish moneys, ending up in the hands of Israeli armaments companies such as Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, which has happened with EU moneys in the past? Under Horizon 2020, hundreds of millions of euro ended up in these companies. Does the Minister agree that should continue to happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: A new and concerning area of the MFF is the reform support programme, which is a €25 billion line over seven years. This is clearly an attempt to establish a permanent ministry of austerity in the EU, which will take the worst elements of the troika approach to Ireland, Greece, Spain, etc, and enshrine them for the future, as was done with the fiscal rules. Will the Minister explain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister not accept that money is being shifted from lines and programmes that were non-conditional, like cohesion funds and rural development funds, into lines and programmes that are conditional? I accept that rural development funds are conditional in terms of rural development criteria but they are non-conditional in terms of austerity or reform measures. Under the reform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but not of this sort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but only since the crisis. That is new.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but only since the time I was a member of the European Parliament, which is five years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I would absolutely demand that Irish taxpayers' funds, or funds from any European taxpayers, are not linked to demanding so-called structural reforms which will make life worse for ordinary people. Cohesion funds should be going to areas that need them from the point of view of cohesion and regional development and so forth. That is what the funds should be used for and not as a tool to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I am not in favour of us asking other countries to reduce their minimum wage, to privatise their public services, to introduce water charges and so on. I am not supportive of the idea that just because we got beaten on some of those issues, but not on them all, we should be seeking to be a part of that and would use our experience to expedite a race to the bottom in terms of economic policies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: No because that has not been the case with most EU funding until recently, in terms of it being tied to neoliberal economic policies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I may accept it but that does not mean I support it, which is what the Minister is implying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: We will not agree, ideologically, on whether this is a good thing but let us try to have a common assessment of what is happening here. I think a majority would agree with me that the models of conditionality used, for example, in Greece and Cyprus, were not a good idea. The so-called structural reform support programme will be rebranded as a technical support instrument and effectively,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Minister just said it was a good thing a minute ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The model of the troika or the model of conditionality-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 682. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 19 April 2018, the details regarding the circumstances of the entry of a person (details supplied) into State care, including their transfer to St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24658/18]