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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is an example of clever answers that try to avoid responding to questions. I appreciate Mr. Byrne is trying to say that is not true because the court order was not made in 2015, but there is a response illustrating that up to 2015, at which stage Mr. Byrne has to take responsibility, AIB Isle of Man refused to hand over information on clients flowing from a High Court order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: When we go back through the transcripts we will find it is quite different and that Mr. Byrne tried to mislead the committee by saying the article was wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I accept that it was before Mr. Byrne's watch but does Mr. Byrne accept that there is a moral problem with AIB, having been bailed out with €7 billion of public funds, continuing to facilitate the robbery of other public funds by facilitating tax avoidance, at the very least? Is there a moral problem with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: However, the witness hides behind the law in the Isle of Man-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is what the witness has been doing the entire time. That is what the letter reflects. It is hiding behind the law in the Isle of Man. That is why it is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but the law is very friendly to banks in secrecy jurisdictions and in avoiding Revenue Commissioners officials getting information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is convenient that the bank happens to be established in two jurisdictions where the law means that the Revenue Commissioners cannot get access to information and facilitates people avoiding tax. The witness might say it was not the intention to do that, but if the bank is set up there of course people will do that.

European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: See you, Taoiseach.

European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: One would have the impression, from listening to much of the media commentary surrounding Brexit, that the European Union is a friend of working people in Ireland. The negotiations are posed as a battle between a progressive EU, with an Irish Government wrapped in a tricolour on the one hand doing battle with a backward little-Englander Tory Party Government. The reality is that working...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel by the United States of America and the relocation of its embassy; his further views on the removal of the invitation to President Trump; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53199/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: President Donald Trump is renowned for his very small hands, but he has put his big feet in it in the Middle East with his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. This is rightly seen as an endorsement of the far-right policies of the Israeli Government and an attempt to annex not just East Jerusalem, but all of the Palestinian territories. It has caused uproar in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: The response is a wringing of hands and statements to the effect that, although it is bad that he has done this, there is nothing we can do. However, the Government can do something that would send a powerful signal right around the world, namely, to use this occasion as it should have used on many other occasions previously to withdraw the invitation, which has political significance, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: One has to wonder what it will take for the invitation to be withdrawn. Issues will arise time and again and, time and again, the question of withdrawing the invitation will be posed. What will it take? The conditions of Palestinians in annexed East Jerusalem are horrific and a microcosm for the oppression of Palestinians generally within the West Bank, Gaza and the 1967 borders. Of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Aid (13 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the extension of EU state aid rules to regulatory alignment between the EU and Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53198/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (12 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the proposal in the report of the Dublin Midlands Hospitals Group strategy group to downgrade 24-hour accident and emergency cover in Portlaoise hospital; his views on the impact on the local population's health care and the potential complications in the treatment of high-security prisoners in the nearby prison; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have carried out inspections at a location (details supplied); if reports of these inspections will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52822/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (12 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of expanding the child benefit payment to include 18 year olds that are still in full time secondary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52871/17]

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will be very brief. I support the amendment and oppose the section and the following ones because in reality what is happening is that what was set up as an emergency measure, a pension levy, which was all about demonising public sector workers and suggesting they had something for which they had not paid, which was not the case as they had paid for it and continue to do so, has been made...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief. We spoke about section 21. This is the corresponding section in a sense in that it is the other part of the gun to the head of the unions to punish them for opposing the pay deal. Section 21 took away increments and this section punishes union members in their pensions. For that reason, we oppose it because of the impact on those workers and also because of the message it...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: This is clearly a crucial section as it is the gun to the head of the unions. It says to union members, and particularly teacher unions that refuse to sign up to the deal because they stood for solidarity across their members and intergenerational solidarity between older and younger workers, that they can have whatever vote they like but we will punish them if they do not sign the deal. It...