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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have carried out inspections at a location (details supplied); if reports of these inspections will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52822/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (12 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of expanding the child benefit payment to include 18 year olds that are still in full time secondary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52871/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel by the United States of America and the relocation of its embassy; his further views on the removal of the invitation to President Trump; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53199/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: President Donald Trump is renowned for his very small hands, but he has put his big feet in it in the Middle East with his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. This is rightly seen as an endorsement of the far-right policies of the Israeli Government and an attempt to annex not just East Jerusalem, but all of the Palestinian territories. It has caused uproar in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: The response is a wringing of hands and statements to the effect that, although it is bad that he has done this, there is nothing we can do. However, the Government can do something that would send a powerful signal right around the world, namely, to use this occasion as it should have used on many other occasions previously to withdraw the invitation, which has political significance, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: One has to wonder what it will take for the invitation to be withdrawn. Issues will arise time and again and, time and again, the question of withdrawing the invitation will be posed. What will it take? The conditions of Palestinians in annexed East Jerusalem are horrific and a microcosm for the oppression of Palestinians generally within the West Bank, Gaza and the 1967 borders. Of...

European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: See you, Taoiseach.

European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: One would have the impression, from listening to much of the media commentary surrounding Brexit, that the European Union is a friend of working people in Ireland. The negotiations are posed as a battle between a progressive EU, with an Irish Government wrapped in a tricolour on the one hand doing battle with a backward little-Englander Tory Party Government. The reality is that working...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Aid (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the extension of EU state aid rules to regulatory alignment between the EU and Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53198/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: To return to the issue of abortion, yesterday's committee votes were historic, particularly those relating to the repeal of the eighth amendment and access to abortion on request up to 12 weeks. What happened yesterday represents a victory for all of those who have fought for decades for the right of women to choose and it takes us to the next step. The Government says it is still committed...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I support these amendments, which are vital in terms of defending student unions as representative, independent institutions of their members, which means they can operate effectively to represent their members on whatever issues arise instead of the potentially Orwellian scenario of the technological university deciding which body it will be dealing with and what body it denotes as a student...

Topical Issue Debate: Redundancy Payments (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. Christmas Grinch of 2017 goes to Capita PLC, the parent company of AMT-SYBEX, which has made at least six Unite members compulsorily redundant. We are now two weeks away from Christmas and Capita is refusing to abide by the Labour Court recommendations LCR 21574 which would give those workers, who have up to 20 years' service, five and...

Topical Issue Debate: Redundancy Payments (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: That was not an answer to the letter written by Unite, the protest held today or the questions I asked. It is very unfortunate that neither the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, nor a Minister of State at the Department of Finance is available to deal with these queries, which are directed at the Minister. Capita holds extremely lucrative State contracts that are currently worth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for being here today. Mr. Byrne mentioned that his objective today is to talk about the future and what is happening now, which I believe. However, that is not my objective. What is important is that we establish to what extent AIB facilitated tax avoidance and tax evasion and thereby a substantial robbery of the public purse. Mr. Byrne referred in his opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: On what basis was it an attractive location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Byrne mentioned in his opening statement that the rationale for establishing the offshore presence was to support the bank's growing business franchise. There is a reason for this presence in the Isle of Man and Jersey and it is not because there were lots of people there or that they were attractive destinations in terms of climate and so on. Rather it is because they are jurisdictions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am doing so because I would like an answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: No. Mr. Byrne can answer "yes" or "no".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Okay, Mr. Byrne does not believe that is the case but I do not think that is credible. I find it hard to believe that Mr. Byrne thinks it is credible that it was just by accident that these entities were established in the Isle of Man and Jersey. However, that is fine. At least we have an answer. Mr. Byrne disputes some of the points made in Colm Keena's article, including that leaked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Keena also says in his article that a spokesman for the bank would not say whether it subsequently acceded to the Revenue Commissioner's request. Can Mr. Byrne make any sense of that?