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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister not accept that money is being shifted from lines and programmes that were non-conditional, like cohesion funds and rural development funds, into lines and programmes that are conditional? I accept that rural development funds are conditional in terms of rural development criteria but they are non-conditional in terms of austerity or reform measures. Under the reform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but not of this sort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but only since the crisis. That is new.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but only since the time I was a member of the European Parliament, which is five years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I would absolutely demand that Irish taxpayers' funds, or funds from any European taxpayers, are not linked to demanding so-called structural reforms which will make life worse for ordinary people. Cohesion funds should be going to areas that need them from the point of view of cohesion and regional development and so forth. That is what the funds should be used for and not as a tool to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I am not in favour of us asking other countries to reduce their minimum wage, to privatise their public services, to introduce water charges and so on. I am not supportive of the idea that just because we got beaten on some of those issues, but not on them all, we should be seeking to be a part of that and would use our experience to expedite a race to the bottom in terms of economic policies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: No because that has not been the case with most EU funding until recently, in terms of it being tied to neoliberal economic policies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I may accept it but that does not mean I support it, which is what the Minister is implying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: We will not agree, ideologically, on whether this is a good thing but let us try to have a common assessment of what is happening here. I think a majority would agree with me that the models of conditionality used, for example, in Greece and Cyprus, were not a good idea. The so-called structural reform support programme will be rebranded as a technical support instrument and effectively,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Minister just said it was a good thing a minute ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The model of the troika or the model of conditionality-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has assessed the impact on the rights and welfare of those children of same-sex parents that are not able to accurately record their parents' details on birth certificates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25897/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I attended a meeting on Sunday of 55 LGBTQ parents and 20 of their children. They are affected by an issue which a majority of people in society are not aware of - and probably a majority in the LGBTQ community are not even aware of - whereby, despite three years having passed since the passing of the Children and Family Relationships Act and the advent of marriage equality, children of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I say to the Minister and, if he is listening, to the Minister for Health that this is an urgent matter and we would like an imminent announcement on it. It is having an impact on people's lives now. Couples are getting pregnant without realising that this is going to be a problem. It is something they realise only during the course of their pregnancies or, in the case of some people to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Has any analysis been done on the impact of this on the rights of children? As time passes, parents may separate or the tragic death of one may take place. What would be the impact of that on a child in this situation who has only one of his or her parents registered officially before this situation is resolved? I welcome the Minister's agreement that this is urgent. I understand that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: President Michael D. Higgins recently addressed the International Labour Organization in Geneva and remarked that it was the first international organisation that the Free State joined post-Independence, the implication being a deep-seated commitment to workers' rights that, unfortunately, was not reflected in the actions of the Free State at home, which repressed workers engaged in...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: We are now a year into the reign of the Taoiseach. The approach to the housing crisis demonstrated by his Government perfectly encapsulates its approach generally. There are two key elements and sides to the Government of Deputy Varadkar. On one side is a vicious, neoliberal, anti-working class policy that rhetorically demonises and economically attacks working class communities while, on...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: He is the Minister's attack dog.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I thought that Deputy Brophy's remarks were revealing when he said that to be "fit for government" one has to prove oneself by voting for repressive legislation and voting against civil liberties. That is unfortunately appropriate in a state founded in a counter-revolution and in bloody repression of which the political forefathers of Deputy Brophy and party of the Minister, Deputy Flanagan,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions being taken to inform and redress those impacted by the false recording of adoptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25686/18]