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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: It is but, looking at the fuller figures, it includes a reduction of the same percentage in Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB, awards as well. Noteworthy proposes there is a 28% drop in that period of time in court and PIAB awards combined. Is that accurate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: I will put other figures to Mr. Hassett and he can tell us whether these are accurate. They have a figure for total motor and liability premiums - the total taken in by the insurance industry - of €1.35 billion in 2012 rising to €1.57 billion in 2013, €1.68 billion in 2014, €1.88 billion in 2015, €2.27 billion in 2016, €2.48 billion in 2017. They...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Hassett dispute those figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: Do they not include claims that are settled out of court? It states that these are net motor and liability claims.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: I do not agree but I must go. I thank the witnesses.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: The Minister focused on two themes. First was the argument that Fianna Fáil did it first and, second, there is the notion that no policy change will alter the situation facing people who are waiting on outpatient lists or on trolleys in hospitals. The first thesis is accurate. Fianna Fáil did indeed do it first, but that does not reduce the responsibility of the Minister or of...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Retention (20 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time her Department retains data on the route, time and date of journeys taken by individual public service travel pass users in view of the fact that the Secretary General of her Department acknowledged to the Committee of Public Accounts that data is retained. [48108/19]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that this action by the US Administration is likely to give the green light for further settlements and the violence that comes with that? If he agrees with that, which is self-evident, will he do more than disagree fundamentally with the comments of the US on the issue? Will he condemn those comments? He knows what those comments are aimed at and he has to accept...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: I think the Minister will find it is.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: International law is-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: I apologise on behalf of Deputies Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny, who, unfortunately, are double-booked. I ask the Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, to condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision of the US Administration to no longer consider the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. It is clear the move had no legal basis. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: That is an ideological position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: The Government is giving away land.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: Why is she still a candidate? Why has she not been deselected?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: The Minister did the ringing.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected cost to transition to a four-day work week without loss of pay in the public sector. [47205/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of additional jobs that would be created in the public sector by a transition to a four day work week. [47206/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff and the role of each required to meet existing demand in the education system; and the cost to hire same. [47196/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff required to reduce classroom sizes in primary and secondary level education to an average of 17. [47197/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Private Schools (19 Nov 2019)
Paul Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average amount spent each year on subsidies for private education institutions. [47198/19]