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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: I congratulate the committee on taking up this issue. Like other members, I am shocked the Department is not keeping records of bogus self-employment. Such an approach is the definition of putting one's head in the sand when there is this massive perceived issue. I accept the Department has said that the perception is greater than the reality. I would be very surprised, with the benefit...

Agreement with Kazakhstan: Motion (6 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: This agreement and the fact that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil support it tell us everything we need to know about the truth of European Union trade policy. It is only words and empty rhetoric when it comes to human rights. In its actions the European Union is concerned about profits for big EU companies. It is concerned about market access and willing to dress it up in whatever language...

Agreement with Kazakhstan: Motion (6 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: But they will not be.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: 605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress of the assisted human reproduction Bill, in particular in relation to areas (details supplied); when he plans to come before Dáil Éireann to report on this progress in line with the commitment made in Dáil Éireann on 11 July 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45110/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (6 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: 629. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) continues to wait for the school age team despite their original assessment of needs being in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45262/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: What about knocking down schools?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Over 1,000 pupils have no school to go to. Parents are in the situation of scrambling to come up with a plan for how to take care of their children. With 42 schools now to be inspected, this seems to be the tip of the iceberg. How many more pupils are being taught in schools with an 80% chance of a wall falling down in the event of a storm? By the end of the mid-term break, there could be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is disingenuous of the Tánaiste to counterpose the question of fixing the problem and having a discussion about why it happened. If we do not discover why the problem happened, then we are going to be faced with the problem repeatedly. I have heard from people involved in the construction industry that it will probably be necessary to knock some of the schools in question and...

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]