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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: No, it is in the names of Deputies Boyd-Barrett, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 40: In page 48, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Report on impact of financial transactions tax 28. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the revenue deriving from a financial transactions tax of 0.1 per cent on shares and securities and 0.01 per cent on derivatives.”. This amendment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: This is like proposals to increase the effective rate of corporation tax or to close corporate tax loopholes, whereby the answer from the Government is always the same. It says that it is not necessarily against the idea but that everyone would have to do it at the same time. This is just an excuse to lag behind developments and to try to maintain our tax haven status. The Government will...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am pressing my amendment.

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: What has been revealed in the past week or so is utterly scandalous. It demonstrates deeply-double standards in how ordinary people would be treated if they attempted to get someone else to vote for them and how Deputies feel they can act. It demonstrates contempt for democracy on the Fianna Fáil side of the House, but we also see it in other respects on the Government side of the...

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: What if that happened in a general election?

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Last week, we had the international day for the eradication of poverty and the previous week we had the budget. We know that 780,000 people in Ireland are living in poverty, which is about one in six, including 250,000 children. Of those 780,000 people, 100,000 are in work and suffering from poverty. Some 700,000 people are on healthcare waiting lists and over 100,000 households are on...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett and possibly someone else. The Government, and other parties in this House, are guilty of prettifying the Brexit deal and presenting it as a good deal. The Taoiseach earlier called it "a good agreement". That is not the truth. The Government is supporting the deal to facilitate Prime Minister Boris Johnson pass what is a bad, neoliberal,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: No.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent contacts with the President of the European Council and President of the European Commission. [43230/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the engagements he has had with the UK Prime Minister. [43229/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: How can the Taoiseach describe the agreement as a good one? Does he not agree that this is worse than the agreement with Theresa May, which was bad enough? This is an agreement which paves the way and points towards a bargain-basement, race-to-the-bottom Brexit after the end of the transition period that is evidenced by the changes, for example, in the political declaration between the May...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: We know the answer we will get to the question Deputy Bríd Smith has asked because we have asked it so many times. It amounts to the Government washing its hands in a situation where an agency for which it is responsible is effectively engaged in union-busting. What signal does it send to private sector employees across the economy when a State agency refuses to engage with one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there has been a delay in the increase of the minimum wage. [43640/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there was no increase of the social welfare basic payment in line with the recommendation by an organisation (details supplied) of a €9 universal increase. [43641/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I will be very brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I have one question about Ms Dara Quigley. I pay tribute to her family for continuing to fight her corner for her because of the injustices she suffered, as well as to the ICCL for the campaign it will launch seeking justice for her. Is it because of the law that no one is being held responsible for the abuse she suffered before her death? It was responsible for her death. I am convinced...

Developments in Spain: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: We need a reality check. Nine people have been sentenced to between nine and 13 years of prison in a European, supposedly democratic country for the crime of sedition, for organising a democratic vote for people to express their will on the question of the independence of Catalonia. For anyone to try to dress that up or to suggest there is some independent rule of courts, that everything is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I would also like 100% clarity on that. The Minister has said no one will lose out, but that is not accurate for future participants, is it? If what she is saying is correct and the clarification is provided that these parents can stay on the old scheme as long as they are eligible, it still means that in future working lone parents will no longer be able to apply for the old schemes...