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Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: In April the Dáil passed Solidarity-PBP's Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 on Second Stage. The Bill provides for the introduction of progressive, LGBTQ+ positive and factual sex education, with consent at its core. Crucially, it also provides that the religious ethos of a school will not stand in the way of the provision of such necessary objective sex education. It is...

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: When does the Minister envisage a ban on zero-hour contracts will be introduced given their impact on people's lives, the inability to plan their lives, the impact on people's mental health, the inability to access mortgages and the fact that they are symptomatic of the rise in precarity? I ask the question particularly in the context of the Lloyds Pharmacy dispute. We have some Lloyds...

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. To ban zero-hour contracts except in the case of casual work defeats the purpose as it is precisely the case that these people are abusing the notion of casual work. To give a concrete example from Lloyds, Mr. Pat. Watt, the marketing and sales director of Lloyds, has issued a couple of YouTube propaganda videos, and he said: "Throwing around terms like-----

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Okay. He said: "Throwing around terms like zero-hour contracts, which we do not and never have had, is deliberately divisive". However, if one speaks to the workers directly, as I did, it is a different story. Mandate has produced a copy of the contract on its website, which states: "Your normal hours of work are flexible as agreed with your manager, spread over up to 5 days between Monday...

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The company involved in these practices of gross exploitation of its workers is not some small pharmacy. It is part of the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world, McKesson Corporation, which has an annual revenue of €169 billion, more than double the revenue of the Irish State. Workers themselves organising is the way that proper terms and conditions can be won. That is why I...

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: We are marking the decriminalisation of homosexuality, which I see as a graphic confirmation of Frederick Douglass's famous aphorism that, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will ... If there is no struggle there is no progress." History demonstrates that decriminalisation was won following a struggle by the LGBTQ community that delivered change, just as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if legislation to prevent employers from unilaterally downgrading their employees' pension schemes from defined benefit to defined contribution is planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26608/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of the Government on the recent refusal of the Italian Government to accept refugees (details supplied); the contact he has had with Italian or European authorities regarding the incident; if he will condemn the treatment of the refugees, who included many unaccompanied minors, pregnant women and injured persons; and if he...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: What about us?

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is appropriate to start with the fact that it is ten years since the start of the great recession, a crisis of the neoliberal capitalist system which the establishment parties in the House defend. The crisis resulted in literally tens of trillions in output being lost on a world scale. It is a crisis to which capitalism responded by embedding further the inequality and neoliberal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of exempting refugees and asylum seekers from the three year residency requirement to avail of SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27188/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I want to focus on the tracker scandal. Mr. Byrne has said that he recognises that the bank failed in its responsibility to provide proper levels of transparency and information and that now it has implemented fair settlements for everybody affected. Would he accept that, in its assessment of the problem and implementation of fair settlements, the bank has taken the narrowest possible view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Let us take a very large cohort of people. Mr. Byrne might be able to tell me how many people this is in terms of AIB and EBS - those who were on a fixed rate, came off it at a time at which tracker mortgages were available, but were not offered a tracker mortgage at that stage. Mr. Byrne is saying those people are not entitled to compensation. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Yes, and who came off the fixed rate and went straight back onto a variable rate and were not offered a tracker although it was available at the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: They would or they would not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Let me give a concrete illustration of this. I suspect and presume there are thousands of people in this cohort. I have emailed the witnesses in respect of this example. The facts, I understand, are not in dispute between the bank and the customer. He took a mortgage out with EBS in 2003 when a tracker mortgage was not available. He went onto a one-year fixed rate in 2004 and came off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I emailed you about this the other day and raised it the last time AIB was before the committee. I even signed the form to get responsibility to act on his behalf. To be clear, EBS is saying that he had the right to get it. If he knew about it, he could have said he wanted a tracker and EBS is saying it certainly would have given him a tracker. The point is that it did not say it to him....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: That is the point. That is the case EBS is making. The code of practice was not in operation at that time but one would hope that the bank would generally operate in the spirit of the code of practice. The code states that before providing a product or service to a consumer, a regulated entity must gather and record sufficient information from the consumer to enable it to provide a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Reference is made in the letter to the fact that tracker mortgages are being advertised at the time and that he should have known about it. Mr. Byrne thinks that it is fair to expect a customer with no knowledge of relatively complex financial products to initiate a conversation himself or herself after seeing an advertisement for a tracker mortgage, wondering what it is and wanting to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Sure.