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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The profit is not created at the point of sale, it is realised. The profit has already been made in the sense that value has been added to the product by a combination of different forms of labour, including intellectual property.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed with management of Trinity College Dublin proposals to freeze promotions for non-academic staff and to impose a moratorium on offering permanent contracts to non-academic staff; his views regarding increased precarity in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2540/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I will address my questions to Ms Graham. In her comments on proving compliance with a directive she said the burden of proof was on the member state concerned. That seems to be completely inaccurate. In the European Court of Justice v. Greece, C 600/12, the court reiterated that, according to case law on the burden of proof in infringement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The burden of proof in the court would be on the European Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Would the burden of proof be on the European Commission or the member state?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Ms Graham uses the phrase "burden of proof" which is the legal term. I am asking a very clear question. In a case in the European Court of Justice is the burden of proof on the European Commission or the member state? I can tell Ms Graham that, according to case law, it is on the Commission, but I would like her to say it considering that she said the opposite a few moments ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is not the case. According to case law, the burden of proof is on the European Commission. Ms Graham should not mislead the committee if she is doing so on purpose, or else she should look up the case law. She should not use words such as "burden of proof". The burden of proof is on the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: What is it secured against?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is fair to say that would mean increased water charges for the average user if we were to meet EUROSTAT levels.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Irish Water said the rate was 1.4% more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Probably per year.

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The housing crisis is not a result of the system breaking down but of the system working as intended. That is, unfortunately, precisely what is happening in this country. It is as described by Mr. Peter Marcuse, the author of In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis. It is a global phenomenon whereby housing has become commodified and faceless vultures are able to comb the globe in...

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The RHI scandal and the subsequent crisis sum up everything that is wrong with politics at Stormont: corruption, cronyism and sectarian sabre rattling. It is summed up by the two coinciding facts that in Belfast the Charles Hurst Ferrari showroom will be heated using public money for the next 20 years while at the same time 42% of people live in fuel poverty. In Arlene Foster's own rural...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on recent reports (details supplied) of so-called vulture funds being able to pay a small amount of tax; the measures he will take to close tax loopholes; if he will consider an increase in tax or new taxes on these funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1747/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on meetings he and his officials have had with so-called vulture funds since 2011; his views on NAMA transferring loans to such funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports in the media (details supplied) regarding the mass sale of properties in County Limerick to a vulture fund by NAMA; his views on reports in that article that he met with vulture funds to encourage them to come to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the use of NAMA-controlled properties to assist in providing affordable housing to persons; if he will use his powers under the NAMA Act 2009 to this end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1751/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will take to reduce the cost of car insurance; his views on the profit levels of companies providing car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1750/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Underage Drinking (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to tackle the issue of underage drinking being facilitated by so-called dial-a-drink services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41392/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Alcohol Sales (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to require alcohol licences for businesses, such as barbers, which provide alcohol to their customers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41393/16]