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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.

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 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: First, I do not agree with the majority position in the committee or the position of the Parliament. Our group, the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, voted against it in the Parliament because we think tax avoidance is one of the major scandals of our age. It is a major contributory factor to the inequality which sees eight people in the world own the same as the bottom 50% and...

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: I will be concrete as to the reason I believe the Irish Government would be concerned about the CCCTB. In terms of those who play the game of the mismatches between tax systems, would lawyers, corporate lawyers and accountancy firms not lose out? They are a major element in this, and they have political weight. Is it the case that those corporate lawyers and accountants who are engaged in...

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 Commissioner spoke at a corporate tax event today the title of which was Ireland Vs The World. That gives one a sense of how sections of the elite in Ireland see this question of tax competition.

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: Would the Commissioner agree that in terms of the model of tax competition, and this goes beyond the question of the CCCTB, which the Irish Government at times advocates - it is part of what is described as an industrial policy but in reality it is a policy of tax competition - the space for that policy is dramatically restrained by two events, namely, the prospect of a so-called bargain...

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 apportionment of one third of profits by reference to sales is irrational. It leads to an element of double counting because the countries already get a benefit from VAT and it clearly benefits the bigger economies with no justification because it does not relate to value being added - real production that leads to profits. What is the justification for one third going to sales?

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.

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.

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...