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Topical Issue Debate: Redundancy Payments (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: That was not an answer to the letter written by Unite, the protest held today or the questions I asked. It is very unfortunate that neither the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, nor a Minister of State at the Department of Finance is available to deal with these queries, which are directed at the Minister. Capita holds extremely lucrative State contracts that are currently worth...

Topical Issue Debate: Redundancy Payments (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. Christmas Grinch of 2017 goes to Capita PLC, the parent company of AMT-SYBEX, which has made at least six Unite members compulsorily redundant. We are now two weeks away from Christmas and Capita is refusing to abide by the Labour Court recommendations LCR 21574 which would give those workers, who have up to 20 years' service, five and...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I support these amendments, which are vital in terms of defending student unions as representative, independent institutions of their members, which means they can operate effectively to represent their members on whatever issues arise instead of the potentially Orwellian scenario of the technological university deciding which body it will be dealing with and what body it denotes as a student...

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: To return to the issue of abortion, yesterday's committee votes were historic, particularly those relating to the repeal of the eighth amendment and access to abortion on request up to 12 weeks. What happened yesterday represents a victory for all of those who have fought for decades for the right of women to choose and it takes us to the next step. The Government says it is still committed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for being here today. Mr. Byrne mentioned that his objective today is to talk about the future and what is happening now, which I believe. However, that is not my objective. What is important is that we establish to what extent AIB facilitated tax avoidance and tax evasion and thereby a substantial robbery of the public purse. Mr. Byrne referred in his opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: On what basis was it an attractive location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Byrne mentioned in his opening statement that the rationale for establishing the offshore presence was to support the bank's growing business franchise. There is a reason for this presence in the Isle of Man and Jersey and it is not because there were lots of people there or that they were attractive destinations in terms of climate and so on. Rather it is because they are jurisdictions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am doing so because I would like an answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: No. Mr. Byrne can answer "yes" or "no".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Okay, Mr. Byrne does not believe that is the case but I do not think that is credible. I find it hard to believe that Mr. Byrne thinks it is credible that it was just by accident that these entities were established in the Isle of Man and Jersey. However, that is fine. At least we have an answer. Mr. Byrne disputes some of the points made in Colm Keena's article, including that leaked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Keena also says in his article that a spokesman for the bank would not say whether it subsequently acceded to the Revenue Commissioner's request. Can Mr. Byrne make any sense of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: In the responses to Deputy Doherty it became clear that the bank did respond to the 14 requests but the Isle of Man and Jersey entities did not transfer to AIB plc information that it requested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Can Mr. Byrne set out the rationale for the Isle of Man and Jersey entities not wanting data about their customers on file in the Republic of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Byrne not believe that they did not want the information in the Republic of Ireland because there it would be easier for the Revenue Commissioners to access?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: As the data were retained in the Isle of Man and Jersey, the Revenue Commissioners were not able to access it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Sure, but if the data were sitting in Germany, the Revenue Commissioners could go to court in Germany and seek access to them. They could get a court order in Germany to access them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am just citing Germany as an example. There are other countries where it might be easier-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: The data that were held in the Isle of Man and Jersey never found their way to the Revenue Commissioners, despite the fact that they may have been interesting to the Revenue Commissioners.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Byrne, when rationalising why this happens, seems to me to be at pains and prepared to go to substantial lengths to avoid the conclusion that it may have happened because those entities did not want the Revenue Commissioners to get the data which, had they sat in the Republic of Ireland, would be easier for the Revenue to access. Surely that is the most obvious explanation for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: AIB introduced a centralised transaction processing and data storage capability in the Republic in 2006, at which point the subsidiaries in the Isle of Man or Jersey were not being wound down. They were still operating and presumably had billions of deposits at that stage.