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Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: When we asked Irish Water, it said it would not give us the information.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Appeals Tribunal (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional resources will be required to reduce current waiting times for Employment Appeals Tribunal hearings from the current average of over a year to three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18418/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is in favour of trade union representatives at the Cadbury-Mondelez plant in Coolock in Dublin 5 having full access to the accounts of the company, and having independent expertise, in order that the company's cost reduction efforts can be examined fully, and alternatives can be formulated by the trade unions; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief. My first question relates to deferred tax assets. Can the Permanent TSB deputation tell me how much or what asset is on the balance sheet of deferred tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: When is it expected that Permanent TSB will be able to begin to utilise that through having profits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: When is the bank's expected return to profitability, whereby the bank can at least begin to get the benefit of not paying corporation tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: The bank anticipates returning to profitability in 2017 and then beginning to utilise the deferred tax assets over a period of 25 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Is it the plan for PTSB to be fully back in private ownership in 2017?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: He has indicated that PTSB is heading back to full private ownership and that getting rid of the contingency capital notes is a part of that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will make the supposition that by the time the deferred tax asset begins to be used and PTSB does not pay any corporation tax for 25 years, PTSB will be in private hands. Does it strike the representatives as somewhat obscene that after a massive loss by PTSB and a subsequent massive bailout by the State - the taxpayer - that then counts as an asset and, as a result of those losses, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Obviously people work within the rules. The rules were changed in the last budget by the Minister for Finance, so that where banks that had been bailed out could previously only use up half of the deferred tax excesses on a yearly basis, they now get the full benefit on a yearly basis. Did PTSB make any representations for that change in the code to take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will move on to another issue. So far as I understand it, contingency capital notes are somewhere between debt and equity. In effect, the Government had €400 million worth of contingency capital notes, and they have been bought back by PTSB through the selling of shares to raise money. From the point of view of the State, from the representatives' analysis, would it not have been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the World Health Organization report on obesity levels, the measures he is introducing to deal with this public health problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19121/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Claims (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the figures from the State Claims Agency indicating a higher number of claims against maternity hospitals outside of Dublin than in Dublin, over the past three years; if he has taken any measures to investigate this; and if he will report on discussions he has had regarding this matter with hospital management, the Health Service Executive and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Switzerland on 6 and 7 May 2015. [19119/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UK Referendum on EU Membership (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the issue of a referendum in the United Kingdom on European Union membership; if he will report on any discussions with European Union counterparts on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19120/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (19 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 6 May 2015, if he will report on developments in the case of an Irish citizen (details supplied) detained in Egypt; if there has been further contact with the Egyptian Foreign Minister since the meeting in New York in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (19 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the lack of a credible opposition to President Nazarbayev in the recent presidential elections in Kazakhstan; his further views regarding the freedom to organise a political opposition in Kazakhstan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19307/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Common Security and Defence Policy (19 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 221. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 30 April 2015, if there are Common Security and Defence Policy measures in North Africa he is opposed to if proposed by High Representative Mogherini; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19218/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Security and Defence Policy (19 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 389. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 30 April 2015, if there are Common Security and Defence Policy measures in North Africa he is opposed to, if proposed by High Representative Mogherini; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19217/15]