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- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: I would like to explore a little the rationale that the Minister is giving for the decision that was made by the previous Minister for Finance in 2014. The Minister for Finance now says that it was purely based on the information that we had at the time, the situation in terms of the tax regimes of competing countries and so forth. He is saying that it had nothing to do with the fact that...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: I went back to look at the debate in the Dáil when this cap was removed to enable full exemption on intangible assets. The change was brought in by the then Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. He said:Section 35 provides for additional enhancements to section 291A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 which provides capital allowances for expenditure incurred on the provision of...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views regarding the CETA trade agreement between the EU and Canada in respect of the possibility of undermining regulatory standards; her plans to seek ratification of CETA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49590/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the investor courts system contained in the CETA agreement between the EU and Canada with regard to the advantageous position it provides to investors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49589/17]
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: I was referring to revenue.
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: I am not sure whether the Minister has heard of the term "the finance curse", which comes after "the resource curse", which describes the apparent paradox of countries with valuable natural resources. Rather than thriving they crumbled and often had something significantly less than democracy, which became known as "the paradox of plenty". The finance curse was coined by Nick Shackson who...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Some important work has been done recently and more will be done. The role of this country, stood over by this and previous Governments, as an important link in a chain of tax avoidance around the world by global corporations, which are robbing from public services in Ireland and, in particular, developing countries to the tune of $100 billion a year, will be exposed more and more. The...
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: There are extra things hyped up here as opposed to the other way around. They have to be made two-way. We need public country-by-country reporting so we can see what corporations are paying tax where.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Peter McVerry supports this Bill.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." "We have a low level of homelessness compared to our peer countries", according to our Taoiseach. That has no factual basis whatsoever. "It is damaging to Ireland's international reputation that our social response to the housing crisis is being portrayed as dysfunctional", according to Minister of State at the Department of Housing,...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Was that a personal email account?
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Let us remember what lay beneath this, namely, a disgusting attempt to destroy and blacken the name of Maurice McCabe, to completely discredit him because of his whistleblowing. How could the Minister possibly receive such an email and read it and forget that she read it? In the interview on the RTÉ "News at One" today she seemed to suggest that she forgot it because she did not have...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: I do not agree that it makes it understandable, not given the Minister's previous comments and the supposed approach of the Government to whistleblowers. Maurice McCabe is adamant that the criminal charges that the Minister referred to on the radio and that are referred to in the email were not raised at the O'Higgins commission. He is adamant that what was raised at the O'Higgins...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: That could be where it is coming from.
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Exactly one year after the email was sent to the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach told the Dáil, "I spoke to the Tánaiste, who told me she had no hand, act or part in that decision and that she was not aware of it until after the fact, around the time it entered the public domain." Is that what the Tánaiste told the Taoiseach? If that is accurate, was it accurate in terms of what...
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Did the Tánaiste read the email previously and then forget about it?
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Should we suspend for a few minutes?
- Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Could we wait until we get the emails? That would help everybody
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: Four per cent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Paul Murphy: That is not consensus.