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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the waiting time for treatment by the school-age team for a person (details supplied) will not be adjusted to take into account their successful appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3345/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (23 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will exempt the Blood Bikes Ireland scheme from motor taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Data (18 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the State has contracts with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2634/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the due diligence measures taken on companies to which State contracts are awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2635/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: On the same issue, the conditions faced by those workers outside, from O'Neill and Brennan, are somewhat equivalent to those in a 19th century dock in that they have no control over where they will be tomorrow, whether they will still have a job or how many hours they will have. I am glad we will debate it soon but will the Minister be engaging with Mandate and ICTU to take on board the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to fully enact the Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2185/18]

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the question of Palestine and the EU's relationship with Israel. I know it was on the Council agenda. I must say goodbye to the Taoiseach. I note his regular departure once Solidarity-People Before Profit Members start to speak.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: Has the Taoiseach ever stayed for any of our contributions in any of the debates he leads off on?

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: No. For every single European Council debate, the Taoiseach stays until the Labour Party, with its seven Members, speaks, as he rightly should. Then he leaves when Solidarity-People Before Profit, with six Members, starts to speak because our ideas are not worth listening to. I am sure he can read the Official Report later.

European Council: Statements (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach should also stay and listen to Deputy Mattie McGrath's group. He should stay to listen to what all Members have to say in these debates in which he leads off. Obviously, the question of Jerusalem was on the agenda of the European Council meeting. The European Union is not like the US or Donald Trump in enthusiastically endorsing and cheering on Israeli oppression with, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will start with the cause of this. A lot of people, the Minister included, have referred to a culture in the banks. I agree with it but it does not go very far in terms of explaining things. It covers a multitude of sins. When Philip Lane spoke to this committee, he was more specific about it. He spoke about a culture of seeking profitability to the detriment of the banks' customers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: He said there was a culture of seeking profitability at the detriment of their customers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: Where does the Minister think that culture comes from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: Okay, that is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: Victims are quite clear on their understanding. I met a guy yesterday who thankfully did not lose his home or anything like that but estimates his family is down about €60,000. He is based in Kildare. He was very clear he believed it was a conscious decision by the banks and that it was the culture within the banks to do this to people to maximise their profits. That is,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: There are two points there. This is quite central to capitalism. It is quite central to the idea of private for-profit corporations; the very nature of their existence means they seek profitability even if it is to the detriment of their customers. That happens right across the market in many different ways but it is particularly extreme in the banks. The other point is that AIB and PTSB...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: My question is why did the public ownership of large portions of the banking system over this period of time not alter the culture? Why did the culture remain unchanged or largely unchanged and focused on profit? It was because it was a Government decision to continue to run the banks on a for-profit basis. It was not the Minister's Government's decision but it was a Government decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: My point is the shareholders and the Governments did not do anything to alter the culture of the banks because successive Governments were committed to private for-profit ownership and running of the banks. They continued with that same model of running the banks even when they were in public ownership. Let us remember the banks got into difficulty when they were private and run on that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: I have another issue. After meeting with the banks on 25 October 2017, the Minister in his statement referred to a range of policy measures available if the Central Bank deemed progress on this issue had not been sufficient or acceptable. One of those was amending tax law in a targeted way. Would the Minister care to expand on what he meant by that? What options were potentially available?