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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: The purpose of the meeting is to consider Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Republic of Kazakhstan) Order 2017, and Exchange of Information Relating to Tax Matters (Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China) Order 2017. As the Order of the Dáil states the committee must report back to the House no later than 5 October, it is intended to conclude...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. Deputy Doherty has indicated.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I have a couple of questions. The Minister of State stated in his opening statement that "Ireland has signed 26 tax information exchange agreements, of which 25 are in effect."

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: To which agreement is the Minister of State referring?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Has it been signed but is not "in effect"?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Has the Minister of State given consideration to the impact the agreement has had on human rights in Kazakhstan? I refer to how the agreement has been used internally in Kazakhstan. It has been linked to Ireland's vote for Kazakhstan's membership of the UN Security Council as a way to suggest that Kazakhstan enjoys a forward moving, democratising and improving situation and thus improve its...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am for trade but not for trade's sake. I am for trade that is linked to real sustainable economic development with human rights playing an important part. It is a fact that authoritarian regimes use international relationships to bolster themselves, internally and internationally. I am not opposed to double taxation agreements in principle, not even, necessarily, with countries that have...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: As the committee has completed consideration of the motions, the clerk to the committee in accordance with Standing Order 90 will send a message to that effect to the Clerk of the Dáil. Under Standing Order 89(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Fianna Fáil is also a right-wing party.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: How to describe this budget? "Band-Aid budget" most correctly sums it up. Ten years of crisis and Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour Party austerity created gaping wounds in our society. Between them, they removed more than €100 billion in terms of cuts to public services and extra, unjust taxes. Those measures created insecurity, homelessness and poverty. Now the Government...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Intangible Assets (10 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Throw him out.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: A leopard clearly does not change its spots. The exchange between the Minister and Deputy Munster was quite revealing. We have a Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who begrudges spending public money on developing public transport. I suspect I know the answer to my question, which is whether the Minister accepts responsibility for being obliged to intervene in the situation in Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: The reason the discussions at the WRC did not reach agreement was because the management proposal was extremely aggressive. In real terms, it was effectively a wage cut. There was an official nominal increase of 1.5%. However, there were 18 conditions attached, including a reduction in contract hours, accepting outsourcing, forced redeployment and freezing increments. We spoke to workers...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Let us put some facts on the table. Passenger numbers and revenue are at an all-time high in Irish Rail. However, due to cuts, it is spending all of the available money on track and engine maintenance. More people are using rail services. There is a very important ideological element which comes from the Government and Irish Rail management and the chief executive officer, CEO, Mr. David...

Other Questions: Rail Services Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: We only got through ten questions today and I had both Question Nos. 11 and 12. We only got through ten because the Minister was, in fairness, trying to give full answers but was verbose in doing so.

Other Questions: Rail Services Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: They have to be abided by then.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday in our response to the budget, both Deputy Boyd Barrett and I went into detail about different areas. Today, it would be useful to have a broader look at the budget debate and at what type of society we are in favour of. The new Taoiseach likes to make shapes about having an ideological debate. He likes to throw cheap criticisms at the so-called far left. He does not want to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (11 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to take to protect the rights of a company's (details supplied) passengers that have been impacted by flight cancellations; if he will consider a review of regulations in the sector which include a protection for workers' rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42164/17]