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Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Some important work has been done recently and more will be done. The role of this country, stood over by this and previous Governments, as an important link in a chain of tax avoidance around the world by global corporations, which are robbing from public services in Ireland and, in particular, developing countries to the tune of $100 billion a year, will be exposed more and more. The...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: There are extra things hyped up here as opposed to the other way around. They have to be made two-way. We need public country-by-country reporting so we can see what corporations are paying tax where.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am not sure whether the Minister has heard of the term "the finance curse", which comes after "the resource curse", which describes the apparent paradox of countries with valuable natural resources. Rather than thriving they crumbled and often had something significantly less than democracy, which became known as "the paradox of plenty". The finance curse was coined by Nick Shackson who...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I was referring to revenue.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I went back to look at the debate in the Dáil when this cap was removed to enable full exemption on intangible assets. The change was brought in by the then Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. He said:Section 35 provides for additional enhancements to section 291A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 which provides capital allowances for expenditure incurred on the provision of...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I would like to explore a little the rationale that the Minister is giving for the decision that was made by the previous Minister for Finance in 2014. The Minister for Finance now says that it was purely based on the information that we had at the time, the situation in terms of the tax regimes of competing countries and so forth. He is saying that it had nothing to do with the fact that...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I support the amendment. The Minister has summed up the complete bind of the Government to a free-market approach to resolving the housing crisis. The Minister accepts that there is a dead weight and a bunch of speculators who will not have to pay tax that they otherwise would have paid but takes the attitude we can do nothing about it if we want to release land onto the markets in order...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: There is not much mix, is there?

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 51:In page 47, after line 35, to insert the following: "Chapter 7 Financial Transaction Tax34.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the potential additional income that would be raised by imposing a Financial Transaction Tax.". I will be extremely brief in discussing the next couple of amendments because I do not believe there...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment number 52:In page 47, after line 35, to insert the following: "Chapter 7 Landlords’ Tax35.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on abolishing the Local Property Tax and replacing it with a Landlords’ Tax of €600 per annum on a second home and €1000 per annum on a third and all subsequent homes.". Again, I...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 53:In page 47, after line 35, to insert the following: "Chapter 7 Millionaire’s Tax36.(1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on additional revenue that would be raised by introducing a Millionaires’ Tax of 2 per cent on net wealth exceeding €1 million. (2) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 54:In page 48, to delete lines 3 to 35, to delete pages 49, 50, 51 and in page 52 to delete lines 1 to 27. We might take a little bit longer to discuss this amendment although I do not suggest it will take a very long time. Effectively, our amendment would delete the so-called sugar tax from the budget. We are against the sugar tax and I have not been convinced by the...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am astounded each time the Government expresses astonishment that we oppose regressive taxes or asks how socialists could possibly oppose them. To go back over recent years, when the household tax was introduced it was described as a tax for local services. We were asked how socialists could possibly be opposed to developing local tax structures when socialists across the world support...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views regarding the CETA trade agreement between the EU and Canada in respect of the possibility of undermining regulatory standards; her plans to seek ratification of CETA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the investor courts system contained in the CETA agreement between the EU and Canada with regard to the advantageous position it provides to investors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49589/17]

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: It was because of questions asked here.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will there be-----

Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will we have questions and answers?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the cuts made to organisations providing services and advocacy for those that suffer from dyspraxia-DCD; his plans to consider increasing the funding to organisations such as an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50302/17]

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I support Deputy Healy's amendment. I remind the Minister of State and the Government of the slogan that I am sure they now want to forget, namely, "Keep the Recovery Going". How can they justify having gone to the people almost two years ago with that slogan while continuing with measures that were implemented under the guise of a supposed financial emergency? How can they square the two...