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Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: What is happening as a result of the massive movement against water charges is an attempt to criminalise protest. In general terms, if sitting down or slow marching is false imprisonment, then striking workers who stop strike breaking vehicles are guilty of false imprisonment-----

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: -----so too are anti-war protestors who stage a sit-down protests, so too are pro-choice protestors who have a slow march. It is, as a barrister said yesterday, "a recipe for totalitarianism". The young man in question had someone give a moving speech for him a few weeks ago. He finished with a quote from Martin Luther King: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Injustice against anyone is a threat to justice for everyone. People need to take a stand against it.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I do not intend to disrespect the House at all.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to any family members of Irish citizens who are refugees from the Syria-Iraq conflict; if she takes into account the particular difficulties of acquiring in-date travel documents for these refugees when seeking visas to Ireland to be reunited with their family members resident here; if she will consider issuing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will explore the measures possible to ensure the safe passage of an Irish family's family members (details supplied) to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27216/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UK Referendum on EU Membership (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on any discussions she has had with the British Government regarding the free movement of persons following the Brexit vote; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19477/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the position and the work of the Government and the Irish permanent representation in relation to the examination by the European Council of the scope of provisional application of CETA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the Government’s position as to which elements of CETA falls under EU competence and which are considered to fall under national competence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27771/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a full investigation into all of NAMA's major portfolio sales in view of the recent concerns regarding the sale of NAMA's Northern Ireland portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27619/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the judgment from the European Commission concerning a company (details supplied), an analysis as to the extent to which other multinational corporations may be liable for taxes to the State or to other jurisdictions has been undertaken; if this amount has been quantified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27618/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. One of the more interesting parts of the expenditure report was the part on expenditure rules. It contains a lot. In summary, empirical evidence suggests the existence of a negative correlation between public investment and the use of an expenditure rule estimating that countries with an expenditure rule in place will see the ratio of gross fixed capital formation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The option of going off-balance sheet was also covered by the report, that is to simply develop extra budgetary or quasi-fiscal activities. That, effectively, refers to off-balance sheet, PPPs and such like. The report does not refer to them as a positive but as a negative. Is there not a fundamental problem with the expenditure rule as it is currently written even in that limited basis?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The report also says that expenditure rules seem to be effective in mitigating the pro-cyclical bias which characterises Government spending. If there was a recession tomorrow the fiscal space would shrink to a negative figure and to keep within the fiscal space it would be necessary to introduce extra cuts. Can the Minister explain how is that not pro-cyclical?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: One could argue that we already have a rainy day fund in the shape of the Strategic Investment Fund. We are not allowed to spend it as long as the fiscal rules remain, at least as they currently are currently formulated, precisely because of the expenditure rules. What use is there in having a rainy day fund if we are going to be constrained within this limited fiscal space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The rules are blatantly pro-cyclical in the sense that if one had a recession tomorrow with 0% growth then one must cut spending. Those are the fiscal rules as they currently exist. Governments just say these rules exist to mitigate the pro-cyclical bias. It is impossible to explain that the existing rules are not pro-cyclical. If there is a crisis or recession further austerity will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Both the structural deficit and a ten-year growth are arbitrary figures. The point is also how they interact with the other rules. The Minister has said that the fiscal space this year is €1 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: If everything were to remain the same except for a GDP growth rate of 0% this year and a projected 0% rate next year, can the Minister tell me roughly what the fiscal space would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is surrounded by calculating machines.