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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: They are the facts but the consequence does not have to be that Permanent TSB sells these people's mortgages or the mortgages of buy-to-let properties where there are tenants to vulture funds. Those funds will simply be after the quickest buck possible, with no concern whatsoever for the interests of these people. One does not follow from the other. Yes, the bank has to reduce its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There has been a lot of focus, rightly, on the question of owner-occupiers, who make up about 14,000 of the loans in Project Glas. The statement submitted by Mr. Masding claims that "As the Governor has also pointed out, the evidence to date does not support the narrative that these secondary buyers are managing these loans any more aggressively than the original banks were." That certainly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: That is the point, is it not? The witnesses wash their hands of the issue and hand it over to someone else to do the dirty work, and then it is not their fault. Formally, it is not their fault but in a sense, they will have sold these people's homes to vultures who do not care about them at all. I am not saying the witnesses care about them very much but at least their bank is under State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I am not without criticism of Permanent TSB dealing with buy-to-lets but the evidence is that the treatment of tenants by the vulture funds will be a lot worse. That is demonstrated by what has already taken place. The witnesses should feel free to respond to that. I will ask another question. On the one hand, the witnesses have said that it is early days for Project Glas and so the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: When will the consultation with the Minister take place in that process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: On average - I am not looking for specifics - what is the gap between that and this sale actually taking place? Is it a month or a couple of months? Is it that kind of period of time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: The consultation with the Minister that is set out in the framework agreement has not taken place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will repeat the question. It is my last question. If the Minister accurately represents the views of the Parliament and the people and tells the bank he does not want it to go ahead with the sale to vulture funds and to find an alternative solution, whether that is selling it to another bank or pursuing it more aggressively itself, how will the bank deal with it?

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is clear that the Government is committed to going along with that, as indicated by its signing up for PESCO. The Government has responded to that repeatedly by saying there is nothing to see here, that here is no process for Ireland participating in European militarisation. That said, I encourage people to read the discussion document from Fine Gael MEPs entitled, Ireland and the EU:...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise the drive to integrate Ireland into the process of European militarisation and, secondly, the attacks on democratic rights in Europe and its trading partners. We have repeatedly raised the issue of the drive for further militarisation by the European Commission and core European countries. The next goal, as clearly set out in its White Paper, is the European Defence Union....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 267. To ask the Minister for Health if routine blood tests are covered by the medical card following media reports indicating many general practitioners are charging medical card patients for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Administration (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to resolve the fault in the swimming pool in a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Traveller Culture (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 356. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on calls by the Traveller community for a cultural centre to highlight and celebrate Traveller culture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13227/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: Anti-choice billboards carry the slogan "One of us". On the billboards with pictures of foetuses there is something or, more precisely, someone obviously missing: the person who can become pregnant. The absence of women betrays the real viewpoint of the most reactionary and right-wing anti-choice campaigners. In their world view women - pregnant women in particular - are not one of us but,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (20 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed bribery allegations against a Latvian ECB board member with his EU colleagues or with the ECB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12971/18]

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is worth looking back at the origins of the credit union movement in Ireland which was founded by a teacher, a baker and a civil servant during the 1950s in response to the grinding poverty that existed in Dublin, with conditions of high unemployment, low pay, poverty and low levels of welfare. These were ingredients for moneylenders to prey on working class communities and to exploit the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: If this comes into place, can policyholders expect that their premia are going to go up by 2%? Will this just be passed on to policyholders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There is nothing in the legislation to prevent or discourage insurance companies from simply putting the 2% onto policyholders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I would say their drive for profit might push them in one direction rather than the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Kissane for all his work on exposing this scandal and fighting for those who have been affected by it. Does Mr. Kissane have an estimate of the overall amount gained by the banks as a result of these practices?