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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any recent contact he has had with the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19476/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made contact with the Mexican Government concerning the reported state repression of a strike by school teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19480/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 665. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the European Commission will present a proposal to the Council of Ministers asking the Council to vote to give the Commission the authority to sign-off on the final text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the Canadian government (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 666. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Government gets access to the wording of the proposal to conclude the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; if she will make public the Commission’s proposal prior to the Council of Ministers' vote on the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19596/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 667. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will publish the position as to provisionally applying the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19597/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 668. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware that Article 29.5.2 of the Constitution places an imperative on the State to have any international agreement involving a charge upon public funds to be approved by Dáil Éireann and that as such, should the Council of Ministers vote by a qualified majority vote to approve the signing and provisional...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 669. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she can assert that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the investor state dispute settlement will not be enforced upon Ireland prior to Dáil Éirean approving the agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19599/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 670. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the necessity test being used to inform the Government position on the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19600/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 671. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19601/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 672. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and why she does not invoke Article 218.11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and ask the European Court of Justice to deliver a legal ruling as to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty solutions with the investor-state dispute settlement promote discrimination based on nationality, but in a post-Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape allowing Canadian businesses or European Union-businesses with a Canadian owner to have privileged access to a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 674. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she intends to protect Irish citizens from the EU Commission’s proposal to provisionally apply the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement prior to a definitive legal ruling as to the distribution of competences relating to new proposals to subject the European Union to an investor state dispute settlement under the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I refer to the reports that the European Central Bank is seeking to have sight of, and presumably influence over, Opposition legislation in advance of it being discussed and voted on in this House. The European Central Bank is a body with no democratic legitimacy. It is unelected and unaccountable and has played a disgusting role in the course of European crises in various coups in Italy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: There was no Brexit then.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider a repeal of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation in view of the Government's claims regarding economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19800/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I wish to respond to the point about democracy. It is utterly cynical to attempt to portray a vote by workers in favour of, for example, the Lansdowne Road agreement as an endorsement that the Minister can now use to justify the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation, considering that FEMPI existed previously. FEMPI existed in order to act as a gun to the...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: But the Minister used it as justification.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: What?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: But in the context of FEMPI.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Because of FEMPI. That is why it is anti-democratic.