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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Capital expenditure is a key part of what we are considering because we believe there needs to be more capital investment in water infrastructure in the coming years. The delegates outlined three possible options in their paper, one being to retain the existing plan which is to have Irish Water borrowing privately at higher rates, with the State being able to borrow directly; the second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: There is a significant yearly cost in the current model versus Government borrowing. Who does the cost fall on? Is it accurate to say it falls on taxpayers? This could be via two mechanisms, namely, the payment of direct and indirect taxes, and the payment of water charges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The public will end up paying for the additional cost in the current model of borrowing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Irish Water tried to install meters in various locations but was prevented from doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the delegates for their submission and for attending. I read Rural Water News. There is a very important editorial in it that is written in bold by the delegates. I agree with it very much. It states that to ignore the group water scheme subsidy arrangement introduced originally when public domestic water charges were abolished in the late 1990s leads to a one-sided debate and an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is very helpful. To follow up on that, I have a point related to some questions already asked. If we arrive at a position in which those under Irish Water do not have any charges, we must have an arrangement whereby, at least in terms of current expenditure as opposed to capital expenditure, those in group water schemes do not end up paying charges from their own pockets. Some of...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Minister did not write that answer, but it is shameful to hide behind such a narrow interpretation of the O'Keeffe ruling. Ms Louise O'Keeffe has commented on the matter of the prior complaint against the abuser in question. She has stated that there is no legal basis for suggesting that it is necessary to establish a prior sexual abuse before one can succeed. This is simply not the...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: At least meet them to explain that.

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: There are some very courageous men and their families in the Visitors Gallery. These are the men who suffered, along with others, the horrific sexual abuse in the late 1960s and who have had the courage to speak out and campaign about it despite all the difficulties they have faced along every avenue they have tried to go down. This is a very distressing issue, as one realises when one...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: He was not able to go to America.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: This is the Dáil. An event of immense importance has happened over the course of the weekend. Millions of people are being denied access to America by a racist Muslim ban and it has happened to at least one person on Irish soil so we have to have a debate. A motion is all very well but we have no interest in signing up to an all-party motion which will say a cúpla focal of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Commissioner. In general I am not a fan of the European Commission. However, the Commissioner plays a very useful role in this area because she can probably understand and see from the questions that, politically, the ruling caused the Government and the Fianna Fáil Party a lot of difficulty to explain the rationale for using public money to fight the case and not to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will now move on to the arguments put forward by the Government, echoes of which Ms Vestager has heard today. One of the key arguments made by the Government is that none of this money is really owed to Ireland anyway and that by the time other European countries get their hands on their share and profits are repatriated to the US, there will be nothing left. Is it Ms Vestager's opinion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Is it also the case, contrary to what the Government originally argued, that the money could be used, within the fiscal rules, for capital expenditure and would not have to be spent on paying down the national debt?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Government tried to claim that even if we got the €13 billion we would have to spend it all immediately on paying down the national debt under the fiscal rules. That is simply not accurate, no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: It depends on whether they are really one's debts or those of European banks that were foisted on one by the Commission through the ECB.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Another key argument was that Ireland could not be expected to be the world's policeman on tax. How could Ireland collect taxes for the entire world? Is Ireland being asked to be the world's policeman on tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: There was a particular moment, a well-crafted and smart moment, when the Irish Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, picked up his iPhone, turned it around and pointed out that it said designed in California and manufactured in China. He claimed that this meant that any profits accrued were not owed to Ireland. Ms Vestager probably knows that we recorded a growth rate of 26% in one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: I shall quote from Apple's 10-K form for the tax year ending September 2015. It notes: "Substantially all of the company’s undistributed international earnings intended to be indefinitely reinvested in operations outside the US were generated by subsidiaries organized in Ireland." The way Apple has chosen to organise is that all of the company's undistributed international earnings...