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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I have a couple of questions on Brexit before focusing on bogus self-employment. Mr. Michel Barnier stated in yesterday's Luxembourg Timesthat there will be checks in the case of a no-deal Brexit. He stated everything possible would be done to enforce them unobtrusively but that will not be possible with everything. He asked how animals crossing the Border would be taken into account if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Sure. There was a question earlier about customs being a European competence, which was significant. I will pose this question very simply. If after the end of March, for example, there is a crash-out Brexit and if the European Commission says there has to be some form of border checks on the island of Ireland, is it legally the responsibility of Revenue to implement them, given that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hypothetically, if the Commission said that, as a result of this crash-out Brexit, we need to have borders at every point where British goods are entering, which would apply particularly between the North and the South of Ireland, would the Revenue Commissioners not simply have to implement that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I want to move on to the question of bogus self-employment. Does Revenue have any estimate on or does it do any work to establish the loss to the public purse as a result of so-called bogus self-employment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I was at a committee meeting with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection recently and it said it does not keep any statistics for the number of cases of bogus self-employment it deals with because it deals with one end of the problem and Revenue is dealing with another end of the problem. Revenue obviously does not have very definite figures or estimates on what is lost....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: In regard to couriers, I understand there was a meeting in 1997 with representatives of the courier industry who were seeking to have couriers in general classified as self-employed as opposed to employees. In this area, the Revenue Commissioners did not have to wait for someone to present. Rather, it had pre-discussed the issue with the industry's employers. I draw the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Where does the idea of treating them all as self-employed in the interests of uniformity come from? How can it be justified? I understand that there is no such thing as test cases in the sense that every case has to be examined individually because the circumstances are individual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Cody.

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Gino Kenny. I wish to congratulate Senator Black on bringing the Bill forward in the Seanad and thank all those outside the Oireachtas who campaigned for it. If passed, far from being a principled voice in the wilderness as the Tánaiste contended, it would represent a very important signal internationally as part of a global movement of solidarity...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Just keep going.

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle please offer the Taoiseach a chance to respond?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has said all that already.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Can we hear the answer? The Taoiseach has said he wants to answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has said he wants to answer.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (22 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include a change in legislation to provide for the presumption of opt-in in relation to organ donation; if same will receive consideration in the upcoming human tissue (transplantation, post-mortem, anatomical examination and public display) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2679/19]

Ráitis ó Cheannairí na bPáirtithe agus na nGrúpaí - Statements from Party and Group Leaders (21 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain." So James Connolly warned us and, unfortunately, when we look at the gross inequalities in our society today, the housing crisis, low pay and precarity, he is vindicated. The revolution he stood for remains...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Does the Government lock up Irish people?

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I agree with the Minister's final comment, if nothing else. Unfortunately, the debate in 2004 was not based on fact, reason or logic; it was based on ideology. I am not saying that those who voted for a change in our citizenship laws in 2004 were racist. Certainly, the vast majority of those who voted thus were not racist. However, I contend that the arguments used by the establishment...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: Fine Gael is worse than Fianna Fáil in 2004.