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Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: They bravely occupied the centre and the community has rallied around. Would the Government agree that the council should intervene to ensure that the jobs and services are maintained?

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: No. I understand that the Business Committee has agreed to discuss scheduling a debate on the Catalan referendum at Thursday's meeting, with the debate to be held next week. That is too late. The referendum took place on Sunday. There were quite unprecedented scenes of police repression, attempts to shut down a referendum which was taking place, the stealing of ballot boxes and so on. Up...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I do not believe that is sufficient.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: The purpose of the meeting is to consider Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Republic of Kazakhstan) Order 2017, and Exchange of Information Relating to Tax Matters (Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China) Order 2017. As the Order of the Dáil states the committee must report back to the House no later than 5 October, it is intended to conclude...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. Deputy Doherty has indicated.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I have a couple of questions. The Minister of State stated in his opening statement that "Ireland has signed 26 tax information exchange agreements, of which 25 are in effect."

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: To which agreement is the Minister of State referring?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Has it been signed but is not "in effect"?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Has the Minister of State given consideration to the impact the agreement has had on human rights in Kazakhstan? I refer to how the agreement has been used internally in Kazakhstan. It has been linked to Ireland's vote for Kazakhstan's membership of the UN Security Council as a way to suggest that Kazakhstan enjoys a forward moving, democratising and improving situation and thus improve its...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am for trade but not for trade's sake. I am for trade that is linked to real sustainable economic development with human rights playing an important part. It is a fact that authoritarian regimes use international relationships to bolster themselves, internally and internationally. I am not opposed to double taxation agreements in principle, not even, necessarily, with countries that have...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: As the committee has completed consideration of the motions, the clerk to the committee in accordance with Standing Order 90 will send a message to that effect to the Clerk of the Dáil. Under Standing Order 89(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent speech by the French President (details supplied) in which he called for access to structural funds to be linked with co-operation on a European corporation tax policy by 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41562/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I was explaining what I consider to be one of the lessons of the battle against water charges, which is that Fianna Fáil cannot be trusted. I will go into more detail now to illustrate how this Bill, which Deputy Cowen - who sounded more like "Minister" Cowen last night - was at such pains to defend, shows that Fianna Fáil cannot be trusted. At the conclusion of the deliberations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. Could I start by asking for their assessment of the overall financial health of Permanent TSB? As the figures show, the numbers of mortgages in arrears in private dwelling homes and in buy-to-lets have come down substantially, based on reduced payment, arrears capitalisation and the various schemes to which the witnesses have referred. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Masding. Question 13 on page 17 relates to how many owner-occupier and buy-to-let mortgages have been sold to investment vulture funds and other financial service providers. The bank does not really give a figure; it gives an amount of money and the scale of the portfolio that was sold. Does Mr. Masding have an idea of how many mortgages on properties were sold as part of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Groarke have any idea what happened to the tenants in those properties? Were tenants evicted after the loans were sold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Groarke does not have any figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: My question is more about whether the bank collates those figures. Does the bank take into account what will happen to those people currently in those homes when making decisions on to whom it will sell loan books?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: If the witnesses could come back with those figures it would be very helpful. My other related question is on the buy-to-lets. If we add together the figures for assisted voluntary sales and the voluntary surrender we get 787. This is an increase of some 90 on last year's figures. Do the witnesses have any idea whether tenants were evicted in any of those circumstances to achieve vacant...