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Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (22 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include a change in legislation to provide for the presumption of opt-in in relation to organ donation; if same will receive consideration in the upcoming human tissue (transplantation, post-mortem, anatomical examination and public display) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2679/19]

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Just keep going.

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Gino Kenny. I wish to congratulate Senator Black on bringing the Bill forward in the Seanad and thank all those outside the Oireachtas who campaigned for it. If passed, far from being a principled voice in the wilderness as the Tánaiste contended, it would represent a very important signal internationally as part of a global movement of solidarity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I have a couple of questions on Brexit before focusing on bogus self-employment. Mr. Michel Barnier stated in yesterday's Luxembourg Timesthat there will be checks in the case of a no-deal Brexit. He stated everything possible would be done to enforce them unobtrusively but that will not be possible with everything. He asked how animals crossing the Border would be taken into account if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Sure. There was a question earlier about customs being a European competence, which was significant. I will pose this question very simply. If after the end of March, for example, there is a crash-out Brexit and if the European Commission says there has to be some form of border checks on the island of Ireland, is it legally the responsibility of Revenue to implement them, given that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hypothetically, if the Commission said that, as a result of this crash-out Brexit, we need to have borders at every point where British goods are entering, which would apply particularly between the North and the South of Ireland, would the Revenue Commissioners not simply have to implement that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I want to move on to the question of bogus self-employment. Does Revenue have any estimate on or does it do any work to establish the loss to the public purse as a result of so-called bogus self-employment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I was at a committee meeting with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection recently and it said it does not keep any statistics for the number of cases of bogus self-employment it deals with because it deals with one end of the problem and Revenue is dealing with another end of the problem. Revenue obviously does not have very definite figures or estimates on what is lost....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: In regard to couriers, I understand there was a meeting in 1997 with representatives of the courier industry who were seeking to have couriers in general classified as self-employed as opposed to employees. In this area, the Revenue Commissioners did not have to wait for someone to present. Rather, it had pre-discussed the issue with the industry's employers. I draw the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Where does the idea of treating them all as self-employed in the interests of uniformity come from? How can it be justified? I understand that there is no such thing as test cases in the sense that every case has to be examined individually because the circumstances are individual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Cody.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Let us talk about Venezuela.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: We are 14 hours precisely from the placing of pickets on hospitals across the country as part of the nurses' strike. The fact that strike is happening is an indication of the crises that exist in the health service, of which the nurses are at the front line, and a scenario whereby their wages are inadequate. They endure pay inequality and they cannot survive considering the cost of living...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: That is a scandalous answer from the Minister of State on behalf of the Government. He said: "As far as the Government is concerned, there are sufficient unions already available to ambulance staff." As my colleague, Deputy Bríd Smith said, we do not care what the Government thinks about which unions workers should be in. The workers decided that their membership of SIPTU was not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (30 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the 18,000 construction employment investigations carried out in 2016 which resulted in the €58 million yield to the Exchequer which were compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4632/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: And Fianna Fáil's.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Tax the wealth to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is there.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: A Programme for a Partnership Government gives a commitment to protect and promote human rights. In that regard and to keep that commitment, I ask whether the Government will condemn what is a clear and ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela? It is a coup which is clearly made in the USA, it is directed by President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, it...