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Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: It should abolish the Dáil. Things would get done much more quickly.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I compliment and pay tribute to the campaigners for disability rights who have fought for 11 years for the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We are here today because of their actions and their struggle in putting pressure on successive Governments since 2007, eventually dragging the Irish State to be the final state in the EU to ratify. As...

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There is a right to fully take part in the workplace on an equal basis but it is still the case that only 31% of people with disabilities of working age are in employment. The rights have to be resourced by the Government. A big part of that is the question of overturning the cuts that were implemented over the course of the crisis. Some of the most shameful acts done by any Government in...

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is worth looking back at the origins of the credit union movement in Ireland which was founded by a teacher, a baker and a civil servant during the 1950s in response to the grinding poverty that existed in Dublin, with conditions of high unemployment, low pay, poverty and low levels of welfare. These were ingredients for moneylenders to prey on working class communities and to exploit the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: If this comes into place, can policyholders expect that their premia are going to go up by 2%? Will this just be passed on to policyholders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There is nothing in the legislation to prevent or discourage insurance companies from simply putting the 2% onto policyholders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I would say their drive for profit might push them in one direction rather than the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Kissane for all his work on exposing this scandal and fighting for those who have been affected by it. Does Mr. Kissane have an estimate of the overall amount gained by the banks as a result of these practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: There was a huge amount of money taken from people and from the economy. When he was reaching the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Kissane said the question should be whether the banks would do it all again and he feared that the answer might be "Yes". Could he explain why he thinks that is the case? This also relates to what factors were driving this effective robbery of people in the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: To follow up on that, when Mr. Bernard Byrne, CEO of AIB, was before the committee two or three months ago, he described taking people off tracker mortgages, etc., as an unforeseen and unintended consequence of the decision to stop offering tracker mortgages to new people. The other banks that came before the committee effectively offered similar versions of that explanation. Does Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: To return to the more general picture, one of the interesting things Mr. Kissane spoke about was the role of Danske Bank's loan to value tracker project in effectively kicking off a race to the bottom. Will Mr. Kissane explain a bit more about how the dynamic between the various banks proceeded? Will he also explain the dynamic within banks, the role of a bonus culture and, within this, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Kissane agree with the description of the culture given by the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Lane, of seeking profitability to the detriment of the banks' customers? He used a similar formulation earlier I believe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I have one question on the detail. Mr. Kissane mentioned difficulties with documentation with regard to EBS, and this tallies with a case I am dealing with whereby someone was taken off a tracker and was not given the appropriate information. He has made the appropriate complaint and EBS states it should have sent him a letter and that it believes it did send him a letter but that it cannot...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: Anti-choice billboards carry the slogan "One of us". On the billboards with pictures of foetuses there is something or, more precisely, someone obviously missing: the person who can become pregnant. The absence of women betrays the real viewpoint of the most reactionary and right-wing anti-choice campaigners. In their world view women - pregnant women in particular - are not one of us but,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (20 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed bribery allegations against a Latvian ECB board member with his EU colleagues or with the ECB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12971/18]

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise the drive to integrate Ireland into the process of European militarisation and, secondly, the attacks on democratic rights in Europe and its trading partners. We have repeatedly raised the issue of the drive for further militarisation by the European Commission and core European countries. The next goal, as clearly set out in its White Paper, is the European Defence Union....

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is clear that the Government is committed to going along with that, as indicated by its signing up for PESCO. The Government has responded to that repeatedly by saying there is nothing to see here, that here is no process for Ireland participating in European militarisation. That said, I encourage people to read the discussion document from Fine Gael MEPs entitled, Ireland and the EU:...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 267. To ask the Minister for Health if routine blood tests are covered by the medical card following media reports indicating many general practitioners are charging medical card patients for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Administration (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to resolve the fault in the swimming pool in a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Traveller Culture (21 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: 356. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on calls by the Traveller community for a cultural centre to highlight and celebrate Traveller culture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13227/18]