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Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Did the Deputy get a visit to the constituency?

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: This Finance Bill underlines yet again that we have a Government of millionaires looking after the billionaires. Not only are we in the middle of a health crisis, but let us not forget the housing crisis. Yet in this Finance Bill the Government proposes to extend a tax break for major developers which actually encourages them to hoard land for even longer. The Government stamp duty refund...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Post Office Network (5 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will recognise the importance of the post office network for rural towns and villages. [33152/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: We are now approaching the sixth anniversary of the tragic death of Jonathan Corrie outside the gates of Dáil Éireann, a victim of the housing and homelessness crisis. At that time everyone promised that the death of Jonathan would be a wake-up call and that the Government would finally realise that urgent action was needed. The Taoiseach himself condemned at the time the inaction...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [33421/20]

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Is the Tánaiste going to sue Villagemagazine?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I think people can draw their own conclusions if the Tánaiste does not sue a magazine which has publicly and repeatedly described him as a lawbreaker and as having committed a crime. Does the Tánaiste believe, as he said in his statement on Saturday, that the Official Secrets Act does not apply to him?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Official Secrets Act.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is the Donald Trump defence, that a person is entitled to do what he or she likes because he or she is the Taoiseach. It's not just as simple as optics, perceptions do matter and when it comes to a contract of this size, importance and cost, it has to be seen to be all above board as well ... [He] left himself open to the perception of a conflict of interest, the perception that...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Is it accurate to describe Maitiú Ó Tuathail as a friend of the Tánaiste and someone who supported his campaign for leadership of Fine Gael?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is fine, I thank the Tánaiste.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is fine -----

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is fine. I will move to my next question. Is it the Tánaiste's contention that the fact that Maitiú Ó Tuathail was his friend and political supporter was purely incidental, that it was simply coincidence that he got this document from the Tánaiste and that no matter who the president of the NAGP was, the Tánaiste would have given them the document in this way?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach answer the question? Is it purely a coincidence that this friend and political supporter of the Tánaiste's received the document or would the president of the NAGP have got it not matter who? "Yes" or "No" will do.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is fine.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: If he received the document in his position as president of the NAGP, why did the Tánaiste send it to his home address rather than to the office of the president of the NAGP?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste talks of doing it more formally. Earlier, he mentioned the way to do that would have been to get Dr. Ó Tuathail in and go through it line by line over the course of two hours or so. The Tánaiste contends that he would have been able to do that without the permission of the IMO, that even though the Government was in the final stages of finalising an agreement...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: So the Tánaiste did not need the permission of the IMO to share it with someone else, with the leader of a rival organisation. The Tánaiste is not saying that is the mistake he made.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste thinks it would have been perfectly okay to bring him in, go through the contents of the document without the permission of the IMO. He did not think that would have been breaking any confidence with the IMO?

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does the Tánaiste understand why Maitiú Ó Tuathail in a conversation with Chay Bowes, unfortunately using very vulgar and inappropriate language, said in relation to the Tánaiste that "he would be [unfortunately] raped if the IMO lads knew he was giving me shit", meaning material like this? That is that the Tánaiste would be in trouble with the IMO if it knew he was...