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

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the rights of Dublin Bus workers transferring into a company (details supplied) in view of the company's track record of industrial relations issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42165/17]

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: As well as being budget day, last Tuesday was World Mental Health Day. It is a day of increasing importance, given the explosion of reported mental health problems in Ireland and right around the world. The World Health Organization estimates that by 2030, depression will be the largest contributor to disease burden. In Ireland, at least one in four people will have a mental health problem...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Government has only one more budget in which to do this. Will the Government take the crisis of mental health seriously?

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Some 20% to 25% of overall ill health is caused by mental health problems but less than 7% of the health budget is going on mental health. The Government has played with figures. It played with figures last year in terms of mental health and has done the same in this budget, as opposed to properly allocating the funding to bring us up to the percentage levels that apply in other European...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the closure of a centre (details supplied); her views on whether the closure of such a facility would impact on the programme for Government commitment to tackle child poverty by increasing community based early intervention programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43752/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will intervene into the closure of a centre (details supplied) in view of the centre's role in providing essential services to children and young persons in the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43753/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (18 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings at the recent European digital summit in Tallinn. [43748/17]

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: No matter how well prepared or steeled one is for what happens inside this House, sometimes the mind boggles at the depth of cynicism and the degree to which brass necks are ubiquitous. It has been well exposed around us during this debate. To begin with the Labour Party, it is welcome that it is supporting the motion. The party is calling for a reversal to the cuts but it should be...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: We do.

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: We want a left Government.

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister is well aware, having visited direct provision centres and met children who live there, of the particularly vulnerable position that they are in. What measures has he taken to address their situation? Are there are any plans to introduce increased payments for children living in direct provision?

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that the conditions these children face are horrific? Their parents are not allowed to work and they do not have cooking facilities or live in an ordinary family environment. They are being institutionalised from a young age, potentially for quite a long time. According to the 2015 HIQA report, 14% of children have been referred to child protection services compared...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Leave (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension of maternity leave for premature births will only apply to those births after 1 October 2017; her plans for an extension of the rights to those already on maternity leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44415/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Governor and his colleagues for attending today's meeting. The explanation given for the system-wide issue was that it was an issue of culture. It was suggested that culture explains how 11 different banks pushed people off tracker mortgages or did not allow people back on to tracker mortgages. Unless culture operates like telepathy, that is not really a full explanation. Does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I still think it is a stretch that it would happen in the different banks in the same period of time. The witnesses might come back on that. Even accepting the point about culture or that culture is an important element of this, which I think it is, what does it say about the culture that operated then in the banks and does a different culture operate now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is precisely where I was going with the next question. Is it the case that the response of at least some of the more reticent banks demonstrates there is no significant change in culture? The interactions at the committee here have been very frustrating. It is like being on a treadmill. Last year, they came in and said it would be sorted by Christmas and the same is happening this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: In reply to the original question posed by Deputy Pearse Doherty, Professor Lane said the Central Bank legally had the power to use its powers in respect of 2013 onwards where there are these two populations. The reason it does not use the power is that relatively speaking, it is a relatively small amount of money compared with all the money that is pre-2013 and which it does not want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: If the 2013 legislation was 2008-2009 legislation, the relative options may be different.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: Okay. At the moment, 13,000 customer accounts have been identified. There are obviously higher figures. The Central Bank may have mentioned 20,000 in one of the documents. How high is it possible to go in terms of how many people are affected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is substantial numbers on top of the 20,000 we know about.