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Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I saw the Minister stabbing them in the back and the Irish people as well.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Minister wanted them closed.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I support the amendment proposed by Deputy Pearse Doherty. The context of this is one of the major political scandals in the State over the past few decades, which was accurately called "the great Irish oil and gas robbery" by the Workers' Party even before the giveaway took the form it took in the 1990s. It was carried out by the former Minister for Energy, Ray Burke, and the former...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I am not paying my water charges.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Is this relevant?

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Oh dear.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: They are waiting for the price to go up.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is the company's figure. We did not make it up.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The ESB and Bord Gáis did that.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: There are 20 billion barrels of oil.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is sad to see how far Deputy Rabbitte has travelled from being the rumoured author of the pamphlet I mentioned earlier to being the apologist, the excuser, of the continuation of the giveaway of oil and gas resources to major multinational corporations. The figure of 20 million barrels of oil equivalent, which includes gas, is not made up but is from the companies' own estimates in a...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: However, the answer is not to hand it over to multinational corporations, which will do precisely as I have outlined whenever it makes commercial sense. The responsible thing to do would be to place production in public ownership and leave the vast majority in the ground. On the detail of the amendment, I do not accept the notion that applying an increased taxation rate on oil and gas...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Barryroe.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: It was declared commercially viable in 2012.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: We live in a corporate welfare state that has not developed accidentally. It is the developmental model of successive Governments, driven by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It is an ideology to which the parties are absolutely wedded. It is based on the notion that the only way to attract investment into the country is by winning the race to the bottom, be it through tax competition, in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if those who enter into agreements with the Revenue Commissioners to pay the local property tax are still liable for a late payment surcharge given that the late payment is factored into the agreement. [41330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his reply to Question No. 215 of 17 November 2015, in which he explains that receivers acting on behalf of AIB may seek vacant possession of a property even if a lease agreement is in place; if this is in contradiction with the policy outlined by the bank in an earlier reply (details supplied) to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: A "bad deal, fit only for a land of pound shops and food banks", is how the trade union movement vividly and accurately described last year's Stormont House Agreement in advertisements in newspapers. Now, after a year of political crisis in the North, we have "A Fresh Start" agreement, which, in reality, is a worse deal again. Far from a fresh start, it is a rotten continuation of austerity...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Voting to give them power to implement cuts, while continuing to say the campaign against Tory cuts must continue, is not a very effective way of stopping them. The £585 million supposedly to mitigate the worst effects of welfare reform is less than the previous amount agreed, while there are more welfare cuts than previously agreed. The £585 million is not new money but will come...

Credit Union Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The problem with the one-size-fits-all approach of the Minister and the Government is that they are treating credit unions like financial institutions, such as banks, when they are no such thing. They are a mass movement with nearly 3 million members, democratically run, rooted in communities, based on volunteers and run not for profit but in the interests of their members. It is worth...