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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European affairs last met. [33524/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Did the committee discuss the question of CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, which has been a source of major controversy across Europe over the past number of weeks? CETA is seen to represent TTIP in Canadian clothes. The ISDS system is simply renamed "the investor court system" and provides corporations with the right to sue states if they interfere with the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on discussions held with his European counterparts regarding further military co-operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33820/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on discussions held with PDFORRA regarding the ongoing use of Larium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33819/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the relatively low increase in the income tax take in 2016 despite the rise in employment; his views on whether this points to the need to increase wages of low and middle income workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34042/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "CHAPTER 2 A Millionaire’s Tax on WealthStudy on Introduction of a Millionaire’s Tax on Wealth 2. The Minister for Finance is to order a study be carried out on introducing a millionaire’s tax on net assets exceeding €1 million and is to report to the Dáil within six months...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Well said.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I missed the opportunity to move amendment No. 2. I wish to point out that I am in favour of a study being carried out into the impact of the USC in respect of ensuring a socially just distribution of income. I am in favour of a report on this for the purposes of being able to introduce an amendment on Report Stage. I say as much so that people will know what I am doing.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I support Deputy Pearse Doherty's amendment as a limited step with which we would agree in terms of taking low paid workers out of the USC net. The Minister's response is disingenuous in two ways. First, he referred to a progressive taxation system and the elements of income tax, despite the reality that these low-paid workers pay a substantial proportion of their income through indirect...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I support the amendment while taking on board the Minister's points. A choice is being given to tenants, but it should be given to everyone, including council tenants. We support the amendment and I am open to listening to Deputy Burton on how to deal with this issue now or on Report Stage. As a basic principle, the scheme should be open to council tenants.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reports in the press (details supplied) of repeated lobbying by a former Deputy to NAMA in regard to his business partners' interests in properties controlled by NAMA and the allegation in those reports that those business relationships were not declared to NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34251/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: What are the Minister's views on a series of articles by Mark Tighe in The Sunday Timeson former Fine Gael Deputy Brian Walsh lobbying repeatedly on behalf of his business partners, particularly Mr. Liam Mulryan and Michael Finn, over a period of close to three years without making any disclosure to NAMA of his business relationships with those two people? Does the Minister agree that it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I referenced the letter to NAMA from Mr. Brian Walsh on headed Deputy notepaper raising a question about the sale of land that was subsequently put on the open market and sold to Mr. Liam Mulryan. In the letter, he urges NAMA to take measures to rectify the situation in a manner that benefits the taxpayer. Elsewhere, he refers to being contacted by "a concerned member of the public",...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I have land records showing that Mr. Brian Walsh and the other person in question co-own six properties. I have other information from the Companies Registration Office, CRO, showing their relationship. I have still other information on common loans that were taken out. They have a business relationship. I am able to provide this information to the Minister and he is aware that a business...

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is reconsidering the planned privatisation of the State's share in the banks in view of the recent fall in their respective share prices and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34039/16]

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister planning to reconsider the privatisation of the State's share in the banks in view of the significant decline in their share prices? For example, the State's 15% shareholding in Bank of Ireland has halved in value this year so on that basis will the Minister and Government agree to reconsider and not go ahead with privatisation?

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: That answer basically confirms that we still plan to privatise and will do it at the right time. Obviously, I am against the privatisation and sell-off of these enormously important assets given the potential lever, if under public democratic control, they give in terms of the economy and people's living standards. When does Minister believe it will be the right time? Will it be soon or is...

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Sunday Independentreported that the State valued its holding in AIB at €13.3 billion at the end of 2014 and just €9 billion in June of this year. I also asked about the €1.9 billion worth of buy-to-let properties.

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: One consequence of this drive to privatisation could be the sell-off of buy-to-let property loans to vulture funds. Is it accurate that AIB is planning to sell off close to €2 billion worth of those? Could that result in thousands of tenants in buy-to-let properties being evicted as the vulture funds seek to take vacant possession for sale? While I want an answer to that question,...

Other Questions: European Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has made provisions for instability in the European banking sector in view of reported difficulties in German and Italian banks in particular; and the discussions he has had with his counterparts on this matter. [34038/16]