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- Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (19 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: I return to my question on strike breaking and the attempt to recruit parents into same against striking teachers. If that is what the Government favours and has approved, how does that marry with any idea of being open to negotiation, the importance of dialogue, etc.? It appears to be part of a pattern of behaviour to try to undermine the ASTI because it has stood up in the face of...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Provision (19 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the public spending to GDP rate; his further views on whether it is sufficient to deliver quality public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30841/16]
- Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: What is happening daily in Aleppo can only be described as an ongoing atrocity. Four hundred people were people killed in September, which amounts to 13 people a day. It is an atrocity being carried out by Russia and the Putin regime with the aim of prolonging the existence of a brutal dictatorship that does not have the support of the majority of the population. This is the aim of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: Who will be answering the questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: It is not that I do not want to hear Deputy McGrath's answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: The Second Stage debate was not as unanimous as the Minister suggested. In the Minister saying the Second Stage position was not so far from the Government's position, there is a bit of rewriting of history going on regarding the Bill, which we supported. On the first night of the debate, the Minister said if we took the total value of the Irish taxpayer's holding in the banks, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: The Minister is saying that, statistically, bank shares dropped by 10% over a period of days but that is not what was said at the time. What the Minister said was that the publication of the Bill led to it dropping by 10%. Does the Minister still believe the publication of a Bill proposing that there should be some measure of relief for mortgage holders caused bank shares to drop by 10%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: The facts do not back that up in terms of the scale of the drop in the value of shares. The value did not drop by 10% and also-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: It is an assertion people can go and check.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: I have the facts about what happened at the time in front of me. A related question is one of causation and whether the publication of a Bill of this character in the Dáil, which is nowhere near radical enough from our point of view, is responsible for the drop of 10% in the value of bank shares. In any event, it is a slightly different approach and is being-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: It was precisely a political charge. It was precisely scaremongering about a Bill. The Minister has effectively agreed that there is a rip-off or exploitation of standard variable rate mortgage holders. They pay over the odds compared to the European average. What will change to make the Minister think that, all of a sudden, competition will resolve this? If competition has not resolved...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: The Minister is arguing against the Bill on the basis that competition will resolve it. That is what the Minister argued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: I am arguing it because it is nonsense and I do not think the Minister believes it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: It is nonsense because there is no evidence of a causative link between the publication of the Bill and the drop of 10% in share prices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: I understand why people buy shares.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: I will make a broader point to Deputy Michael McGrath. We support the Bill. We supported the Sinn Féin Bill previously. We think it would potentially give some element of relief to mortgage holders. It does not deal with the fundamentals. The approach in the Bill is to say the issue was market failure whereas the market is the failure in this circumstance. The fundamental problem...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: Many people were shocked to learn on Friday that a 17 year old had been found guilty of false imprisonment because of his participation in a protest. There was no allegation or charge against him of any violence-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: -----and he was recognised-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2016)
Paul Murphy: Sure.