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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (2 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 359. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend liability from ordinary negligence to gross negligence in so far as the maintenance of roads and footpaths is concerned. [46314/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Tax Credits (2 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views regarding a tax credit scheme for child care (details supplied). [45880/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (2 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the privatisation of Dublin City Council's waste contract; if he is satisfied with the manner in which this occurred; if he is satisfied that customers of private companies are protected from quasi-monopolistic practices and poor services in view of the fact that the council is no longer a direct...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sporting Events (4 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Rugby World Cup bid, the meetings held and the progress to date with various bodies and the elements of the bid. [46015/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance if all taxes on income were merged into a single tax structure, all tax reliefs and allowances on income were discontinued and no tax was charged on any earned income up to €15,000, the two income tax rates that would have to be set to collect the tax revenues collected in 2013, in view of principles of progressivity between the two rates and with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (16 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish the CESI report on activation services commissioned by her Department in 2012; the procurement process the publication could impact upon; and when this is due to be completed. [48454/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for capital acquisitions tax following budget 2015. [48451/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Millennium Development Goals (16 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 542. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out his views on concerns expressed that the Government has reneged on its commitment to the millennium development goals; and the current position regarding same. [48450/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Applications (16 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person who has an appeal in the High Court, following refusal of immigration status, can apply for a driving licence and, if so, how they may proceed when they have no access to their passport. [48452/14]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Two years ago on this date we were debating the report of the expert group on the judgments in the A, B and C case. I contributed to that debate at the time. Nothing I have to say now will differ from what I said then. We can offer our own personal feelings on this issue. People's personal viewpoints are important. However, do I have a right to force my views on another person, be that...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Nyberg is very welcome. I would like to pick up on the point of a paradigm of efficient markets. In his report Mr. Nyberg states this "throws light on why most international institutions, foreign analysts, rating agencies, lenders, authorities and commentators were as relaxed about Irish developments as people in Ireland themselves". Does this absolve these institutions?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the idea stand up though when we know, as Mr. Nyberg has stated in his report, that if people had looked at the annual reports of some of the covered institutions, it would have been quite clear what was happening in terms of credit concentration?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Nyberg is saying this idea was so strong that it took hold for all these institutions and-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: -----that it was not clear for them to see what was happening in the Irish context, but in some of the reports, as Mr. Nyberg stated in his report, it would have been quite clear to the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator because it was there what was actually happening.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: They did not act.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: In that relationship between the international and the national, Mr. Nyberg, in his own opening remarks, said that in all respects the Irish crisis was not a unique one, but in his report he states that in all essential aspects it was home grown.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: There was a view recorded, but not agreed with, in the Honohan report that had the external shocks of September 2008 not occurred, the system would have survived without imposing a cost on the Government. What does Mr. Nyberg make of that view?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: To clarify, he records that view. He does not support it. From his interview some people put forward that view.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I suppose international events exacerbated the speed and severity of the crisis. In his report Mr. Nyberg states the main reason for the crisis in Ireland was the unhindered expansion of the property bubble financed by the banks using wholesale market funding. A lot of space in his report is dedicated to the wholesale market funding. Could he please explain that point on wholesale market...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: In his report, Mr. Nyberg writes about how this funding gap emerges. It opens up between the loans and deposits of all the covered banks growing from €26 billion in 2002 to €129 billion in 2008. To what extent was this facilitated by changes in the international financial conditions? Was it largely due to the aggressive growth strategies of the Irish banks?