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Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: They are all past their sell-by date.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: In his supposedly emergency budget on 8 July the British Chancellor, Mr. George Osborne, as part of the new all-Tory Government, triumphantly announced measures, sticking the boot into working class and middle class people and again making their struggle to get by even more difficult. He slashed tax credits and housing benefit and maintained public sector wage increases at just 1% for a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (15 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reducing the value added tax rate on telecom utility bills for pensioners. [29482/15]

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: Each individual amendment seeks to delete a particular part of the Bill. The amendments stand independently; they do not form a composite proposal. The Bill would stil stand with its main purposes in accepting any one of the amendments. That all Sinn Féin and Anti-Austerity Alliance amendments have been ruled out of order is a little incredible in dealing with a matter that is the...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I object in particular to amendment No. 25 and the related amendments. As the Bill currently stands, it is quite clear that the court shall not disclose a verifying certificate to the judgment creditor concerned. Amendment No. 25 provides that the judgment creditor would end up with the statement of means of the creditor. It gives more power to the creditor over the debtor than is...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is clear that the purpose of the amendments is to shift the balance in favour of the creditor. The same applies to amendment No. 50, which allows the creditor to serve the deductions order to the Department of Social Protection rather than the clerk of the court. It is aimed at speeding up the process from the point of view of the creditor. Under the Bill as currently drafted, the...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I oppose the amendments. They are part of the Government's bullying, scaremongering approach. In particular, I highlight amendments Nos. 31 and 45, relating to the costs of the court cases. We are dealing with the costs of the second application of two court cases here being awarded against the so-called debtor. It is about intimidating people into paying bills. In this case, it is...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: It will be nice not to see Deputy Eric Byrne and the Labour Party in the next Government. They will be gone.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: We will have new social democrats and socialists who do not sell people out and we will have a government that will be forced to abolish water charges. The Labour Party will be abandoned by their voters. Given the levels of payment, they must be a little desperate right now.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: The bullying will not work. People know none of it applies until 2017 and we will have the water charges well defeated by then. The bullying should be opposed in here.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: Pick a pocket or two.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I object to the increased clarity about how the costs will be awarded against the so-called debtor in this circumstance, for example, a person who has chosen not to pay his or her water charges over a period of years. We do not think we will get there but that is our reason for objecting. I also object to the fact the Bill will be guillotined in a couple of minutes. All the Opposition...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on any planned information plans by his Department related to tenants living in rented accommodation and the payment of water charges. [29007/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to fund Traveller-specific accommodation in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will provide details of the allocation of this funding. [29006/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an annual breakdown by scheme of all payments made by her Department to private landlords in the years 2008 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [30406/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Issues (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his discussions with his European Union counterparts from 11 to13 July 2015 regarding the Greek financial situation. [30378/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest available statistics comparing the general Government debt and gross national debt ratio of Ireland to European Union and Eurozone countries, and other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. [30400/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the annual value of all rate increases, or other forms of increase such as widening bands and changes to tax credits, using 2008 as the base year, to pay as you earn, pay related social insurance and value added tax, for each year since 2008. [30402/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the annual amount of revenue generated from all new personal taxes and charges introduced from 2008 onwards, including universal social charge, the household charge and the local property tax, for each year since 2008. [30403/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown, by Department, of the annual amount of current and capital spending cuts for each year since 2008. [30401/15]