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

Paul Murphy: It seems that the last paper from the Greek Government to the institutions was dismissed out of hand, despite the fact that it represented an attempt to sum up the negotiations and a compromise. In terms of the primary surplus, Syriza and the Greek Government have moved on a rise in value added tax, VAT, on postponing the rise in the minimum wage, collective bargaining, pensions and a whole...

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

Paul Murphy: To go further on the question of our interests, earlier the Minister said he was against debt write-downs. Is that just debt write-downs for Greece or is the Minister against them for Ireland, if they were to be offered, or if we were to get them if we asked for them, or is it debt write-downs only for tremendously rich private individuals paid for by the taxpayer and not for the country?...

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

Paul Murphy: If Greece were to get a write-down on its debt, in whatever way, would that not be beneficial to us who still have a massive debt, still pay €7 billion a year in interest, a figure that will rise? Would it not be in our interest that there would be a European debt conference and a process of write-down of unsustainable debt? I do not understand how it is not in our interests that we...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: Here again we have a ritualised endorsement and extension of a serious attack on basic civil liberties. This is particularly serious at a time when the reality of the actions of the State and how it defends the interests of the elites at the expense of the majority have become clear. Serious attacks on people's democratic right to protest have taken place over the course of the past half...

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome that the Government is not opposing this Bill. That demonstrates the change that has taken place in these Houses. Three years ago, the Government voted down a Bill in the Seanad that was weaker and less far reaching. This change has come from below rather than above, through movements of tens of thousands of people who campaigned for an end to homophobia, discrimination and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the planned outsourcing of the application and development management section of the information technology department in Allied Irish Banks; his views regarding the outsourcing of a key sector of the Department that deals with core functions of the bank's operations; if a risk assessment has been carried out on the outsourcing to the bank's...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of tax opinions issued by the Revenue Commissioners each year for the past five years; if he will provide a breakdown of the number provided to persons, small and medium enterprises, larger enterprises, and to companies based outside the jurisdiction. [24157/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tax opinions issued in the past five years, in tabular form, by type of transactions and-or concerns, including the numbers that relate to transfer-pricing arrangements, and with cross-Border implications. [24158/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests for tax opinions that have been refused by the Revenue Commissioners in the past five years, on the basis that the seeking of the opinion was suspected to be part of an arrangement designed to avoid tax or a duty. [24159/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the European Commission's preliminary finding that in several instances the methods for determining profit allocation between a company's subsidiaries (details supplied) here do not appear to comply with the arm's length principle for establishing transfer prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24160/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to publish the criteria used by the Revenue Commissioners to determine an advance pricing arrangement. [24161/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Taxpayer Confidentiality (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the support of the European Commission for the publication of tax rulings, his plans to publish, while taking measures to protect the appropriate privacy of persons and corporations, the details of tax opinions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24162/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on providing the Revenue Commissioners with powers to tackle transfer pricing that artificially boosts the profits of the Irish subsidiaries of multinational corporations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24163/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the amount of the State funding to the Football Association of Ireland that is ring-fenced for junior leagues and on spending to develop the sport among young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24206/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the amount of the State funding to the Football Association of Ireland that is ring-fenced for the League of Ireland through prize money and grants to clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24207/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the conditions his Department puts on payments to the Football Association of Ireland and other sporting bodies when awarding grants from the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24209/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the amount of State funding to the Football Association of Ireland in each of the past seven years. [24210/15]

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: Greece is in a state of humanitarian and economic catastrophe. It is in that state because of the austerity imposed by the troika and implemented by New Democracy and PASOK. Wages have fallen by 37%, public sector employment by over 25% and pensions by almost 50%. The result is an explosion of homelessness, unemployment, suicide, poverty and misery for the Greek people, and an economy that...

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: What did the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, say about this noose yesterday? He lined up with the German Minister for Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, and said, "Tighten the noose."

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: He said, "Tighten the noose. Don't give them any more money. Demand their humiliation." Is that the Government position? He stabbed the Greek people in the chest and, in so doing, he stabbed the Irish people in the back. Would the Taoiseach agree that he and his Government are putting their own party interests - the same party as Merkel, as Juncker, as Samaras, as Rajoy - ahead of the...