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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: It is relevant to subsection (6) that relates to water metering. "However, while I was pinned to the wall-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: It relates to the water meters and that is the reason I am opposing the section.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: "The last thing the security people said was: 'I will get you; you do not know who you are messing with.' Later on, someone else was told: 'We followed you home earlier; we know where you live. You do not know who you are dealing with.'" There were other incidents in Grangegorman, Phibsborough, and a spate of incidents in Dublin 7. Water meters are being imposed not just by the Garda but...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: That is evidenced by their behaviour.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I did not name anyone. I could have named them but I did not.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the Disabled Drivers and Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulation (SI 353 of 1994) to include those with single upper limb amputations. [47524/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the pay arrangements, including bonuses and performance-related pay, for executives of semi-State commercial bodies under the remit of his Department. [47509/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position he will take on setting fishing targets for 2015 at the Council meeting on 15-16 December 2014; his views on the achievement of the maximum sustainable yield exploitation rate in 2015 as outlined in Article 2.2 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47596/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to end long queues outside the Garda National Immigration Bureau office on Burgh Quay in Dublin city; and her views on the welfare of persons who queue overnight there. [47506/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: The Minister often feigns shock at the idea that anyone could suggest privatisation is a possibility. The Government repeatedly states that nobody in the Dáil could possibly want Irish Water to be privatised. I would hazard a guess that he is incorrect although they may not feel able to put forward the idea now. The same Government wanted to privatise our forests and, if it felt it...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: Would the Minister not agree, at least on a theoretical level, that it would make Irish Water a more attractive option for any future major multinational corporation seeking to buy it in the context of a future privatisation? The money that is to come from the Department of Finance to the local authorities does not deal with the fundamental question. It is a transfer from one part of the...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: We will need a Greek person there.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: When?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is anticipated that the streamlining of pay grades announced in the new Civil Service reform plan will lead to a lower overall pay and pensions bill. [47844/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to review, amend or repeal sections 28 and 34 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, which deals with prohibition of victims of disclosing information regarding their cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48041/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received a response to the letter that he co-signed, dated 21 October 2014, to the Commissioner-designate for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, regarding the transatlantic trade and investment partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48248/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask the Minister about the letter of 21 October 2014 to the trade Commissioner, which he co-signed with a number of other trade Ministers across Europe. The essence of the letter was to argue for the maintenance of the investor-state dispute settlement, ISDS, mechanism, which gives privileged access to corporations to justice against states that attempt to regulate in the EU-US...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I would be highly sceptical of the promised growth figures form the Commission. Similar figures promised for the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, never materialised - in fact, a million jobs disappeared. Professor Clive George, who has previously done impact assessments for the European Commission, has noted that its model is highly speculative and said that the actual likely...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: When I worked in the European Parliament, I heard this argument again and again for ISDS in the case of trade agreements with countries with undeveloped legal systems. That was the argument put forward, but the US, which has the most developed legal system in the world, and, similarly, the EU are still arguing that corporations have special rights, rights that are not afforded to ordinary...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the OECD Employment Outlook 2014 which found that Ireland has the second highest percentage of low paid jobs of those countries; his views in favour of raising the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48249/14]