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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I do not agree with the proposal in section 15 to extend the scheme, which was due to expire. I am against the extension for a number of reasons and have some questions to put to the Minister. I am against it because the fundamental effect of the so-called "help-to-buy" scheme is to transfer money into the pockets of developers having passed through the hands, briefly, of a select group of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: We are going to spend another €100 million on this tax expenditure without carrying out a study to show it will result in any ordinary people getting houses. That is the proposal notwithstanding the fact that a study of a similar scheme in Britain has concluded there is a massive dead weight and it is a waste of public money. When the then Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I would like to formally move amendment No.32.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am in the same group as the Deputies whose names are attached to the amendment. Do they have to be here physically?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: No, it is in the names of Deputies Boyd-Barrett, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 40: In page 48, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Report on impact of financial transactions tax 28. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the revenue deriving from a financial transactions tax of 0.1 per cent on shares and securities and 0.01 per cent on derivatives.”. This amendment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: This is like proposals to increase the effective rate of corporation tax or to close corporate tax loopholes, whereby the answer from the Government is always the same. It says that it is not necessarily against the idea but that everyone would have to do it at the same time. This is just an excuse to lag behind developments and to try to maintain our tax haven status. The Government will...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am pressing my amendment.

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the workers in the Visitors Gallery. This is an incredibly simple issue. We need a rapid, just transition to a net zero carbon economy by 2030, which means moving away rapidly from fossil fuels. It means the use of finite resources such as peat for energy supply must stop immediately. It is incredibly costly to our livable planet to continue to use them. We have to do this in a...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: On a point of order, did an alternative arrangement get passed for today's business which took out the Solidarity-People Before Profit slot? An email came from the Business Committee but was it ever voted on by the Dáil?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: The last substantive vote on this in the Dáil was on Tuesday when we voted for the business as outlined in the second report of the Business Committee, which outlined for today a slot for a two-hour debate on the Solidarity-People Before Profit motion, with the motion "to be confirmed". If that was never undone by the Dáil, I do not understand how it was removed without a vote of...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: Surely the Dáil should have had a vote on that if a slot was going to be removed without reference back to the Dáil. The Business Committee is not entitled to alter the work of the Dáil. I was genuinely not sure whether a vote had taken place earlier on.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: It was removed from the report of the Business Committee.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: It was removed from the website of the Oireachtas.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: We should, then, have proceeded with a motion. The order, as adopted by the House on Tuesday, applies if not overturned by a next vote of the Dáil.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am not interested in a suspension of the House but it seems highly unusual that the Dáil's business would be changed without a vote. It is quite undemocratic and is very problematic. It is the second substantial thing that has happened this week. We should return to it in future but it should not have been removed from the website, for example, without the agreement of this...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: Exactly.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: We agreed the second Business Committee report, which included a slot "to be confirmed" for our motion. That stayed on the website, for example, until this morning at some point when it was removed. How can that have happened without a vote of the Dáil?