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- Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2016)
Paul Murphy: We will not oppose this amendment, which represents an improvement. I thank the Minister of State for taking the points on board. However, we fundamentally believe it would be better if it was necessary to have a vote beforehand to give the Dáil a say in this rather than having a retrospective look at it. I just wanted to register the point.
- Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2016)
Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, line 13, to delete “Minister” and substitute “Oireachtas, should Dáil Éireann be dissolved approval shall be made by a decision of the government and approval of Seanad Éireann”. The effect of the amendment means a vote would be required in the Oireachtas rather than simply a decision of the Minister for the money to...
- Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2016)
Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The same phrase was used on Committee Stage, that is, the reference to the need for a high degree of certainty now. We thrashed out the point but there is still no certainty because it is still a decision of a Minister. Who knows what government could be in place at that stage? It is not possible to give 100% certainty to our so-called...
- Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2016)
Paul Murphy: That is fine, but that point was raised and taken on board by both Deputy Doherty and myself in different ways with regard to how the amendments are written. That point has been taken on board. If it is not a question of the Dáil sitting but a danger that the Dáil might vote against it, then that is democratically problematic. Will the Minister of State outline the situation...
- Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2016)
Paul Murphy: It is my understanding that Senators hold their seats until the day of the next Seanad election. We can debate it further. It may be an obscure question. I will use my time to speak more about amendment No. 6. Amendment No. 2 deals with it in part. It is a preferable situation. We dealt with this on Committee Stage and it is clear that amendments can be made to the loan facility...
- Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2016)
Paul Murphy: Votáil.
- Business of Dáil (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: It has said it can wait.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: Is Apple the few and the small now?
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: That is it, yes.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: Is that what-----
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: It is still there.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: Dublin is pretty good too.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: We will be moving the amendment on behalf of the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit. I also express our solidarity and support for the Dublin Bus workers who go on strike tomorrow. It will be very instructive to watch the difference in how those low-paid workers seeking a modest pay increase are treated compared with how Apple, one of the biggest corporations in the world, is...
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: On a couple of occasions, the Government has been embarrassed by making statements in respect of which it is later contradicted by the European Commission. It strikes me that the same may have happened this morning on the confidentiality of the Commission's ruling. The Taoiseach, in response to Deputy Boyd Barrett, said that the document was in the ownership of the European Commission and...
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: It is 35% of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State (7 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. Apologies, I missed earlier. It is one of those days. Listening to what the Minister of State stated in the radio interview this morning, the key repeated phrase is "managing expectations". That is not complex code. It is code stating that what motorists expect is that the massive hikes in premiums and the discrimination against all sorts of different...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (8 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations, which are informative. To start with Mr. Faughnan and the AA, what is striking, and it confirms our empirical experience and, I am sure, that of the AA, is the survey which finds that of all the motoring issues car insurance is the No. 1 issue, with 93% of people saying it is the most important issue. Mr. Faughnan used the formulation, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (8 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: That is also our experience. On the question of the older cars, and we have younger drivers and older drivers represented, what is the insurance company's justification for higher premiums for older cars? I understand there can be a point in terms of older cars not having the same safety equipment - roll barriers and so on - inside the car that newer cars would have. Is that it or is there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (8 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: Effectively, that profiling is targeting younger drivers and lower income drivers. Is it consciously the case that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (8 Sep 2016)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Faughnan says it is not about the car.