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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is beginning to climb. How those export figures are calculated is extremely important and has an extremely significant impact on the total GDP figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: Therefore, as regards the point Professor McHale is raising - and he is not the only one to have raised it - about contract manufacturing, as I understand it, from mid-2013 to 2014 according to the national accounts, goods exports had increased by 18.4%. According to the external trade statistics, however, they had increased by 1%, the difference being contract manufacturing. It is not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: Professor McHale does not think it has any substantial impact on GDP. One could have multinational or Irish corporations here that are contracting the production of whatever products in China or elsewhere, which are exported elsewhere and have nothing to do with the Irish economy in reality. If that contract manufacturing was stripped out and not counted, it would not make any difference in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I have just one general remark, which is not meant to be personally offensive to any of the witnesses. I have a real problem with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, or IFAC, in the sense that its role and the way in which it has been set up is part of the deliberate technocratisation of decision-making. It is making economics not something that is political, but the idea that there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is exactly the point of it. I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: To stop democratic pressures from below. That is the idea that defines everything else.

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I intend to share time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger, Thomas Pringle and Catherine Murphy. It is now three and a half weeks since the tremendous result in the marriage equality referendum, which was heralded as a social revolution by the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and others. More than 62% of those who cast a vote voted for...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 403. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the welfare of migrants who have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the crew of the LE Eithne. [23782/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 404. To ask the Minister for Defence the countries of origin of migrants who have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the crew of the LE Eithne. [23783/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naval Service Operations (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 412. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any migrants assisted by the crew of the LE Eithne in the Mediterranean Sea have claimed asylum under Irish law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23784/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 644. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a review of services for transgender people, with a view to increasing provision to meet demand, increase locations, and reduce costs for persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23786/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 645. To ask the Minister for Health his view on the existence of a religious ethos in hospitals and other health services; his views that this has a negative impact on employment equality in healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23787/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 666. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent murder of a person (details supplied), if he plans to raise the case with the Colombian Government in the context of the new engagement with the Colombian Government that was promised when the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia was approved by Dáil Éireann, the steps the Irish Government will take to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 667. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of cases (details supplied) and other cases known to the Irish and international authorities, his views that there is a systematic persecution against the trade union movement and the farmers’ movement, an increasing militarisation of many territories, questionable judicial and legal methods that do not meet the minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukrainian Conflict (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 691. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the sanctions by the G7 states against Russia. [23785/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the existence of a religious ethos in education; her further views that this has a negative impact on employment equality in education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23788/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is good to see the Minister is convinced of the benefits of democracy and the right of governments to decide on fiscal policy, given his support for the fiscal treaty, the six-pack and the two-pack, which are all about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: No, but you do jail protestors because they go within 20 m of water meters being installed by the company of Denis O'Brien, a major donor to your party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: We do not need any lessons in democracy from you, I am afraid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will start with a question on Greece. I contend strongly that the negotiations from the point of view of the European institutions are not being carried out in a frame of mind consistent with negotiations between partners to achieve a mutually beneficial solution. They are being carried out to inflict humiliation on the Greek Government and the Greek people in order to send a message...