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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Income Inequality (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The homeless numbers are at a record high.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Income Inequality (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried out an analysis of #budget 2019's impact on inequality; his views on a study by an organisation (details supplied) that indicated that the recent budget will primarily benefit higher earners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44225/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Income Inequality (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree with the analysis of Social Justice Ireland, SJI, that the budget fails to make a notable impact on Ireland's entrenched inequality and which rightly describes inequality as a disease of society where, for example, child poverty has worsened or where, compared to what little benefit low paid workers will receive, those on higher incomes received ten times that amount?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Income Inequality (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Let us get real about what the budget represented. The Government likes to present itself as a non-ideological Government but is the truth not that the Minister's budget is highly ideological? It is a highly ideological, right wing, neo-liberal budget which is about shrinking the State, whereby Ireland now has the lowest public spending to GDP ratio in the entire EU at 25.76%. It is about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Income Inequality (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is ironic that in the Minister's first response he talked about the need to look at the impact of indirect taxes but he then cited a study that suggests that Ireland has a progressive tax model based purely on direct taxation because when indirect taxation is taken into account, the bottom decile of the population pays effectively the same percentage of their total income in tax as the top...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the tax breaks to private landlords announced in budget 2019; if the cost benefit analysis of direct investment in public housing has been analysed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44224/18]

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I want to speak about what is happening with the Italian budget and the response of the European Commission to it because we are in uncharted territory. The Commission is refusing to accept a budget decided by an elected Italian Government. Although it is an Italian Government with which I disagree and which contains some horrifically right-wing forces in the form of the Northern League it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Last week I met with a woman, Michiko Tsukamoto, who is a survivor of the horrific nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, which together with the bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 amount to an act of gratuitous mass murder by US imperialism, which was responsible for the deaths of over 200,000 people and the injuries of many hundreds of thousands more. They were acts, not designed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I think it shameful that the Government has decided to institutionalise two-tier pay and pay discrimination against new entrants until 2024, and that Fianna Fáil, let us be clear, has agreed to that continuation. I salute the members of the INMO for their resounding rejection of the proposal, with 94% voting against. It is solidarity in action, understanding that an injury to one is an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Government created the division.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Minister says that all I am interested in is division and dividing people. It is deeply ironic because, on this issue, it is the Government which, continuing the actions of previous Governments, is precisely dividing people and trying to divide between new entrants and older entrants, with the result that teachers and lecturers starting at the bottom of their scales get paid more than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on fully restoring pay and allowances to new entrant public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43949/18]

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Everything about the Government's response to this issue is utterly cynical and it must be called out on it. Its approach to the question of procedure makes a joke of the supposed democracy of this Parliament, while its approach to the substance of the issue makes a joke of any commitment to tackle plastic pollution. It is a good motion, but I do not mean any offence to its movers when I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I would like to ask a couple of questions along similar lines. Dr. MacNeela mentioned that the limited education which exists in schools can be seen in the work that is being done in Galway. I ask him to explain how that can be seen and what its impact is. Obviously, it links in with the point that has been made about taking an holistic approach. Third level institutions do not exist as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: What is the witnesses' reaction to the Government report on local public banking in Ireland? I will summarise what I see as the essence of the report and the witnesses can feel free to give a different assessment. The key lines are that there is not a compelling business case for the State to establish a new local public banking system but that there is no impediment to Irish Rural Link and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: More generally, does Mr. Sibley accept that there is a problem with the model of banking that we have in Ireland and in most countries at the moment where banking is mostly private and for profit? Even where there are State-owned banks, in reality they are run on that same model which has proven to be problematic, both in terms of the immediate scandals that we end up dealing with here such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I liked the phrase Mr. Sibley used that banks should serve the interests of society and consumers etc. It seems to me that in the past decade society has more been serving the interests of the banks than the other way around. Does Mr. Sibley believe it is the case that on the whole, the private banking system that we have does serve the interests of society and the economy as a whole?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Sibley agree with the proposition that there is an implicit State guarantee and effectively an implicit public subsidy to private banks as a result of having banks that are too big to fail which we obviously saw in practice in this country in the course of the last decade? A recent study concluded that the total implicit State guarantee for private banks within the EU is €240...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief in following my colleague, Deputy Mick Barry. This will be the last speaking slot to be taken by Solidarity-People Before Profit in the Second Stage debate because we are very anxious to see the legislation progress and take effect as soon as possible, particularly in the light of the Government's precarious position. I will make a few brief general points and two...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is very clear that this summit is extremely unlikely to result in any outcome on Brexit. Instead, in recent days there has been a ratcheting up of rhetoric about the potential for no deal, playing on the very real fears of ordinary people in Ireland, Britain and across Europe. The problem in all of this is, as it has been from the start, is that these are negotiations between vested...