Results 321-340 of 12,298 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (28 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 553 to 555, inclusive, of 20 January 2015, the measures in place to ensure dogs in the care of local authorities comply with the provisions of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 and are adequately cared for with appropriate accommodation and veterinary care including those put into the...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: Two years ago the Taoiseach made an apology here. He spoke of national shame, referring to the incredible, horrific abuse, incarceration and exploitation of over 10,000 women, in which the church and State were both complicit and guilty. His speech was supposed to represent a significant turning point, putting that in the past, as something never to be repeated. It was a recognition, and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (29 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide information in tabular form on the number of households currently on the transfer lists of each of the local authorities or for as many local authorities for which this information is available, and the numbers for each year since 2007 with a breakdown of these figures according to the main reasons...

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: No, it was not.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: Did he not listen to the radio last week?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the sale of Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4360/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on discussions held with trade union representatives and community organisations on the sale of Aer Lingus. [4361/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of public servants in receipt of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47835/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of investment funds and real estate investment trusts to which the National Asset Management Agency has sold commercial and residential properties; the value of sales to each; the value of the loan with which the property was bought by the original developer; and if he will provide a list of each of the properties concerned. [4839/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of Irish properties sold by the National Asset Management Agency detailing their original owners; the buyers of same; the profits or loss on each transaction relative to the original face value of the loan; and the price for which NAMA purchased the property from the banks. [4840/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the conditions that will be attached to the issuing by his Department of the water conservation grant; and if there will be a requirement that applicants for the grant have or will spend money on a water conservation measure. [4784/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the matter of a proposed European debt conference in the view of the recent Greek parliamentary election. [4708/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: This is also to ask the Minister his views on the question of a European debt conference. In particular I ask whether there has been a change of position here from the point of view of the Government. Were the remarks about broad support from the Minister for Finance to the idea of a debt conference wrongly ascribed to him? Was the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: If the Minister has been following Syriza and the Greek finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, as closely as he proclaimed in answer to Deputy Doherty, he will know there is no proposal from Syriza for any taxpayers in Ireland, Spain or anywhere else to take the hit. Its proposal, contained in an academic paper, is for the debt of all indebted countries to be written down to 50% of GDP, with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: I was not referring to a reduction in interest rates but rather a reduction in the principal, with the reduction in the total amount of debt to 50% of GDP as per the Syriza proposal. This is not a question about the Greeks seeking a "Greek ask" and we, the Irish as creditors, all of a sudden seeing how we would react to it. It is a question of whether an ask can be made by the 99%, the mass...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the appointment of a banking firm (details supplied) as advisers on the sale of the State's share in AIB; his views on the matter of the sale of the State's stakeholding in the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4709/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister for Finance to report on the appointment of Goldman Sachs as advisers on the sale of State's share in AIB, and to make a statement on why Goldman Sachs was chosen and on his views of the sale of shares in the banks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: Why does the Minister think that Goldman Sachs has agreed to this on a pro bonobasis similar to four other groups on the panel he mentioned? Was it simply because they are nice, kind people and they want to help us out bearing in mind that an article in Rolling Stoneaccurately described them as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity relentlessly jamming its blood funnel...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is naive or disingenuous to consider that Goldman Sachs staff are just interested in the high visibility work and that it does not enter their minds that future clients will say Goldman Sachs saw the inside of AIB and that will encourage them to go to the company rather than another firm. I refer to another aspect of this. Is this an admission that the Minister is giving up on the...

Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: The 19th century American journalist Ambrose Bierce described debt as an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver. If he had been writing in contemporary Ireland, he could have added a special mention for the banker, the property speculator, the big building firms and big businesses which have forced tens of thousands of households into poverty to pay their boom-time...