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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Government will not be able to sustain that position. As public support goes from passive to being active on Saturday, the Government will feel the weight of pressure to concede in favour of the workers. Other workers see that these issues are related; I do not see them as unrelated. Other workers also feel they need a pay rise and that their pay is not keeping up with cost-of-living...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: We are currently spending hundreds of millions of euro a year on agency nursing staff. Just before Christmas the Government agreed to pay off junior Anglo Irish Bank bondholders, who were supposedly burned, to the same amount it would cost to pay the total nurses' claim. The Government obviously has no interest in getting the Apple tax money. The Government is making choices and those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: I think it will be. The Government is taking a court case to try to ensure it is not our money, in fairness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Those bondholders did not get burnt at all. They got full recovery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: That brings me to my final question because the Minister knows I am not just in favour of these once-off amounts being used in this way. I am in favour of, for example, increasing the amount of revenue we bring in through corporation tax, increasing income tax on high earners etc. That is ongoing revenue. I note that the Minister and the Government are now very concerned about issues of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: But decisions over public spending are not such an important part. What the Government signed up for and what it was in favour of when it came to the fiscal treaty were clearly related to sovereignty but the Government did not care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Is that whenever the fiscal rules are responsible for our not being able to use the money we have to build housing? Does the Minister think the excessive deficit procedure and the fact that we have this money in the pensions reserve fund and so on that we cannot use because of one of the fiscal rules are good things?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: A Programme for a Partnership Government gives a commitment to protect and promote human rights. In that regard and to keep that commitment, I ask whether the Government will condemn what is a clear and ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela? It is a coup which is clearly made in the USA, it is directed by President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: The transition plan of the National Assembly of Venezuela openly speaks about mass privatisation, mass dismissals from the public sector and the implementation of neoliberal policies. Will the Government condemn this coup attempt?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Look at the poverty in the US.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste supports the coup.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: And Fianna Fáil's.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Tax the wealth to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is a good idea to have this brief session. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, is coming in to us next week. I would hope that by the time he comes in the situation is resolved and that the Government and the HSE have given a meaningful indication that they are willing to move substantially on the question of pay restoration and pay parity. If the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (30 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the 18,000 construction employment investigations carried out in 2016 which resulted in the €58 million yield to the Exchequer which were compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4632/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: That is a scandalous answer from the Minister of State on behalf of the Government. He said: "As far as the Government is concerned, there are sufficient unions already available to ambulance staff." As my colleague, Deputy Bríd Smith said, we do not care what the Government thinks about which unions workers should be in. The workers decided that their membership of SIPTU was not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: We are 14 hours precisely from the placing of pickets on hospitals across the country as part of the nurses' strike. The fact that strike is happening is an indication of the crises that exist in the health service, of which the nurses are at the front line, and a scenario whereby their wages are inadequate. They endure pay inequality and they cannot survive considering the cost of living...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Let us talk about Venezuela.