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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Is the State party to any other treaties that involve us in investor court systems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: What are those other international courts that are similar to the courts that will be established by CETA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Come on. The Minister cannot seriously claim that this is the same type of scenario as the European courts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister just accepted that it is not that same a minute ago and now he is again trying to compare them. Therefore, this is a fundamental departure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It will happen in a private parallel court process that is only accessible to investors and corporations. That is new and it is a fundamental change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is the Minister who is giving the wrong impression by suggesting that things are all the same. He can keep trying to deny it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: To clarify, if a normal citizen in Ireland felt that they were discriminated against by a Canadian company, would they be able to go to the ICS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: To clarify, these are all cases that are being taken in ISDS mechanisms. They are outside of the normal court process, in precisely the kind of process that is being set up by CETA. I presume the Minister would agree that the US is a state where-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but they are under other treaties in which countries are party to these other dispute settlement mechanisms. For example, the energy charter-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: But-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will share time with Deputy Barry. The sorry saga of this special deal for property owners and developers tells a very important truth about the nature of the housing crisis. We do not have a housing crisis just because no one has figured out what to do to resolve it. 7 o’clock If you go out onto the street and campaign on the issue of housing, the average person that you meet...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Earlier, my colleague, Deputy Barry, raised the horrific treatment by Aer Lingus of its workers. Unfortunately, they are not the only group of workers within aviation facing severe attacks on their terms and conditions. The management of Dublin Airport Authority took advantage of the pandemic to ram through a series of attacks on workers' terms and conditions and to undermine them. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Not agreed. It is almost three weeks since the Government launched its Housing for All plan. The Dáil did not debate it last week and we will not debate it this week. It is inappropriate that the Government gets to launch its plan with great fanfare and talk of 300,000 homes by the end of 2030, the majority of which are simply estimates of what private developers will build, without...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: -----in the context of inflation. We need to have a debate in the House.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he plans to take to tackle the issue of potential home buyers being denied access to a mortgage on the basis of their pre-existing illness or medical conditions; and if he considers this to be discrimination. [44432/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2021 and 2022 of reducing the rate of interest on deferred local property tax from 4% to nil. [44454/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will ensure that the updated guidelines in relation to the safe reopening of indoor performing arts classes will be provided to education and training board management when they have been produced by the Arts Council. [44697/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the 700 social homes delivered under the buy and renew scheme. [44450/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the social homes delivered under the buy and renew scheme that are in the four Dublin local authority areas. [44451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of acquiring and refurbishing the 250 social homes delivered under the repair and lease scheme. [44452/21]