Results 10,181-10,200 of 12,388 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- 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: Yes.
- 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: Does the Commissioner think there are other corporations, presumably major multinationals like Apple, that have similar specific deals with the Irish Government?
- 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 Ms Vestager saying the Government could take the money and it would not have to go into an escrow account? I apologise for interrupting.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (31 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that is used in means testing applicants for grants and assistance under the Secondary Education Committee fund; the different level of grants potentially awarded to applicants and other relevant rules related to the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3764/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds and other dogs exported to EU and non-EU countries in 2016 and to date in 2017; and the action he will take to cease the export of Irish greyhounds to Pakistan for use in coursing. [3585/17]
- Other Questions: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Smith. The hope that Donald Trump is not going to follow through is looking like a faint hope. Let us consider what Trump has done in recent days. He has signed executive orders relating to the Dakota access pipeline, for example, and he has made statements on the wall and immigrants. They may well follow through with this. Does the Minister not agree that moving the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on representations made by his Department following the recent postponement of the trial of a person (details supplied) in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3259/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I was part of an all-party delegation to Egypt to visit Irish citizen, Ibrahim Halawa, who has been in prison for almost three and a half years. His message to us, which was heard loud and clear, is that he wants to go home. We conveyed that strongly to the Egyptian authorities, the Egyptian President and the various Ministers and parliamentarians we met. Considering we had the 18th...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I add my thanks to the embassy and all those involved in organising the trip of the delegation and those who took part in it. What we heard from Ibrahim about the conditions he faces was harrowing. He is in a maximum security prison, which is supposedly only for those who have been convicted of serious offences. He has not been convicted of anything; he is effectively being interned. He...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: Is one not supposed to get time to respond?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I did not use the time. I appreciated getting the answer from the Minister. I am not complaining about that. I got a question and a supplementary.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: Can the Chairman fix it so that we can have the translation? People are entitled to present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I need a translation and we should get one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: I know he did but Mr. Ó Tuathail should be able to present in Irish if he so wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: For those who say they do not know anyone who favours the privatisation of water services and that all of the political parties are against it, I ask them to consider which political parties favoured a cut in the minimum wage in advance of the 2007 general election, the privatisation of Coillte and bringing in the IMF, etc. Those things have changed and, therefore, if people want protection...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: No. I mean 2013, as opposed to 2014, which says the shareholders cannot alienate their shared utility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: Can the prohibition be removed by simply having a majority in the Dáil?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: Can I have a "Yes" or "No" answer? Is it the case that a simple majority in the Dáil can amend the prohibition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Paul Murphy: Can I get a "Yes" or "No" answer, please?