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

Paul Murphy: There was a huge amount of money taken from people and from the economy. When he was reaching the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Kissane said the question should be whether the banks would do it all again and he feared that the answer might be "Yes". Could he explain why he thinks that is the case? This also relates to what factors were driving this effective robbery of people in the first...

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

Paul Murphy: To follow up on that, when Mr. Bernard Byrne, CEO of AIB, was before the committee two or three months ago, he described taking people off tracker mortgages, etc., as an unforeseen and unintended consequence of the decision to stop offering tracker mortgages to new people. The other banks that came before the committee effectively offered similar versions of that explanation. Does Mr....

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

Paul Murphy: To return to the more general picture, one of the interesting things Mr. Kissane spoke about was the role of Danske Bank's loan to value tracker project in effectively kicking off a race to the bottom. Will Mr. Kissane explain a bit more about how the dynamic between the various banks proceeded? Will he also explain the dynamic within banks, the role of a bonus culture and, within this, the...

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

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Kissane agree with the description of the culture given by the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Lane, of seeking profitability to the detriment of the banks' customers? He used a similar formulation earlier I believe.

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

Paul Murphy: I have one question on the detail. Mr. Kissane mentioned difficulties with documentation with regard to EBS, and this tallies with a case I am dealing with whereby someone was taken off a tracker and was not given the appropriate information. He has made the appropriate complaint and EBS states it should have sent him a letter and that it believes it did send him a letter but that it cannot...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I compliment and pay tribute to the campaigners for disability rights who have fought for 11 years for the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We are here today because of their actions and their struggle in putting pressure on successive Governments since 2007, eventually dragging the Irish State to be the final state in the EU to ratify. As...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There is a right to fully take part in the workplace on an equal basis but it is still the case that only 31% of people with disabilities of working age are in employment. The rights have to be resourced by the Government. A big part of that is the question of overturning the cuts that were implemented over the course of the crisis. Some of the most shameful acts done by any Government in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: It should abolish the Dáil. Things would get done much more quickly.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I do not think the Taoiseach understands the politics of the left-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: -----and the differences that exist between our approach and that of Donald Trump. Perhaps the simplest thing is to remind the Taoiseach of his own politics and what he said previously. On 27 June the Taoiseach said:I have not yet had the phone call with President Trump but I am fairly sure that at some point in my interactions with him, assuming we are both still in office next March, we...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach discuss President Trump's anti-Muslim policies? Will the Taoiseach raise those issues with President Trump?

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach did not.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: In ten days, on St. Patrick's Day, the Taoiseach is scheduled to experience the vice-like grip of Donald Trump. I take it he has been doing his hand exercises.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: When it seemed safe that Donald Trump would not be elected, the Taoiseach's predecessor, Deputy Enda Kenny, described his comments as racist and dangerous. Over a year later, it is absolutely clear that it is not only his comments but that Donald Trump himself is racist, sexist and dangerous. His big and beautiful wall, which he continues to push as a means to whip up racist sentiment, has...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: He is the ugly face of a capitalist system devoted to maximising profit at any cost. The best thing the Taoiseach could do would be to refuse to meet him, refuse to allow his racist, anti-immigrant policies to be greenwashed with a bowl of shamrock. The Taoiseach's response will be predictable - he will not do it.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I remind him of the commitments he made repeatedly when we have raised these issues over the course of the past year, namely, that he would raise them in the US in March.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: March is here. Will the Taoiseach represent the views of ordinary people in this country and explain that there are those who oppose Donald Trump's attacks on the environment, disagree with his anti-immigrant rhetoric and are appalled by his aggressive nationalist stance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There is obviously a lot of discussion around how big the MFF will be, but just as important a question is the balance of spending within the MFF. From the Commission communication to the Parliament and the Council, the Commission reflection paper on the future of EU finances causes me to fear that the direction of spending points to the type of Europe that unfortunately we have. It points...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: By how much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: If the budget spent on defence tripled from the previous MFF to this time, would the Commission advocate something like a tripling again because that is what the figures seem to add up to, a substantial further increase in defence spending at an EU level?