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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister was at pains to emphasise that the chances of Ireland being successfully sued by a Canadian company are low. He is presumably aware that approximately 1,000 Canadian corporations are currently taking cases in ISDS processes against states around the world. They are very much engaged in what Joseph Stiglitz described as "litigation terrorism".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, some of them are. For example, one Canadian mining company is suing Romania for almost $6 billion for interfering with its mining rights. Another corporation is suing Croatia for removing its illegal permits for a golf course. The Minister said that effectively, we will have protection-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but in ISDS processes, not in regular courts. That is not where they are taking place. Presumably, the Minister will agree that the US is a state where there is rule of law and so on, which is one of the things he said would protect us. Is he aware that the Canada-based company TC Energy is suing the US Government in an ISDS process for $15 billion after the Biden Administration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Correct. What it is do with is an ISDS mechanism, which is what is provided for in CETA, and which is the main reason people are opposing it. To be very concrete-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: This is an expansion. Let me give a concrete case. IRES REIT is owned by a Canadian company. If we sign up to CETA, we may be in a position in a few years where we will say we need rent controls to bring rents down to an affordable level. If the Minister is still in government at that time - hopefully not - will he not say not only that rent controls are unconstitutional but that if we do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will finish on this question. The point is that that company could sue us, not in the Irish courts but in this special investment court system, which, as the Minister has accepted-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he plans to take to tackle the issue of potential home buyers being denied access to a mortgage on the basis of their pre-existing illness or medical conditions; and if he considers this to be discrimination. [44432/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2021 and 2022 of reducing the rate of interest on deferred local property tax from 4% to nil. [44454/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will ensure that the updated guidelines in relation to the safe reopening of indoor performing arts classes will be provided to education and training board management when they have been produced by the Arts Council. [44697/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the 700 social homes delivered under the buy and renew scheme. [44450/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the social homes delivered under the buy and renew scheme that are in the four Dublin local authority areas. [44451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the 250 social homes delivered under the repair and lease scheme. [44452/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the 250 social homes delivered under the repair and lease scheme that are in the four Dublin local authority areas. [44453/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost in 2021 and 2022 of providing 100% redress to owners of homes with fire safety defects. [44455/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost in 2022 to increase Part V from 20% to a statutory minimum of 30%. [44456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to reverse the cuts in spending on Traveller accommodation since 2007 and to force local authorities to utilise funds in full. [44457/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 334. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will raise the matter with his EU colleagues and at the United Nations. [45118/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 335. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will meet with a group (details supplied). [45119/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of paying all postgraduate workers in Irish third-level institutions a minimum living wage of €15 an hour. [44631/21]