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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 did the figures previously. I do not have them in front of me.

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 did the figures previously and they were negative. I think it is obvious that they would be negative but I did them regardless. It proves the point that the figures are procyclical. The Minister can say what he likes and that they are not but they are.

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: No, the Minister should share his figures with me next time. He should come up with his calculations.

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: Regarding the other areas, we have this recovery but the figures significantly overstate the recovery. We can have a big discussion about the nature of the recovery, where its benefits are going and the fact that the majority of people do not feel it. How will we have a real recovery that is felt by the majority and that leads to sustainable growth and increases in living standards without...

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 am all for a growth in tax revenue; the question is where it comes from. Regarding the public service, we had 320,000 public sector workers in 2008. At the end of 2015, there were just under 300,000 public sector workers, just over 20,000 public sector workers are missing when our population has grown by, I think, 270,000. How is it possible to provide quality public services to people...

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: Appointments are detailed in Vote 17. Reference is made to 3,053 appointments to date in 2016.

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: Yes. Elsewhere, I think in the same category, reference is made to an increase in staff numbers of 8,000, so there seems to be a discrepancy between the number of appointments and the increase in staff numbers. Is that accounted for by people in temporary positions and so on?

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 last question, a key one, is pay restoration. It is clear now when one considers the teachers and the gardaí that workers will not wait for the pay restoration schedule planned by the Government. We are talking about workers who suffered because of the crisis and who, under pressure, agreed - I would not say volunteered - to give up pay. Now they hear all the talk about the...

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 do it?

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 am not sure that is the cycle we came through. I am not sure that we had a crisis because wages were too high. I think it is because we decided to bail out a bunch of banks and developers and put that cost onto the people but-----

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: Concretely, the gardaí's pay claim, which I support, poses a serious challenge to the Lansdowne Road agreement because they are saying they will not wait, that they will take action and the Government will come under pressure. I would support the exertion of this pressure to give a concession. Does this not pose a challenge to the Minister's strategy for dealing with pay restoration?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (4 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Strategy Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary process; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategy Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 407. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary process; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on European affairs took place. [28290/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: Has the Cabinet committee discussed the growing momentum towards a significant further step in the militarisation of the European Union in the context of Brexit, which has, according to one source who comes from an EU state with a large defence industry, created a "new situation" but that "we are just at the beginning of the process" and that talks could go on for "years to come"? He or she...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide an update on the replacement of the JobBridge scheme; the safeguards to defend the rights of participants that are envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28793/16]

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister provide an update on his plans for JobBridge 2.0, the replacement of the JobBridge scheme? In particular, will he take into account the findings of the internal audit of his Department, which were absolutely damning and paint a picture of a scheme characterised by exploitation and abuse in its very design. The system is described as being based on self-declaration by the...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Minister referred to a high level of criticism based on anecdote or very small-scale surveys by various interest groups. Leaked to RTE's "This Week" programme was an internal audit from the Minister's Department that is not based on small-scale surveys by various interest groups. It is an extensive audit and it paints a picture that blows a complete hole in all the spin of the...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (6 Oct 2016)

Paul Murphy: Did the Minister read the responses with which they defended JobBridge? Schools that did not have SNAs advertised for SNAs. It is impossible that those people will be properly trained as SNAs in those schools. The response was:JobBridge guidelines do not indicate that a like for like job to internship must exist within any given sector. In relation specifically to the education sector it...