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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (16 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the threat to jobs in a company (details supplied) in his meetings with the British Government or leaders of the Northern Ireland parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48319/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Catalan Referendum (16 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the issue of the jailing of members of the Catalan Government and other repressive measures with the Spanish ambassador or with the Spanish Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48320/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility (16 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review policy to allow flexibility for persons marginally over the income limits on eligibility to HAP to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48471/17]

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I do not think - do these people really-----

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Let us quote from tribunals then. I think I am allowed to quote from tribunals.

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: On multiple occasions-----

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Okay, I will talk in general terms.

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: People will know who I am talking about. People will know about a former Taoiseach who benefited to the amount of £8 million - Irish pounds - including £1.3 million from one prominent big business man in particular, Ministers who received multiple corrupt payments and a finance Minister who managed not to have a bank account and who did not truthfully account for the origins of...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Some 86% of Irish people think corruption is a major problem in the country, while 70% think the Government is not doing enough to combat it. Some 30% of Irish companies believe they have lost out on a public contract due to corruption, which is shocking. One estimate put the annual cost of corruption at the outrageously high figure of €2.5 billion. Corruption is endemic in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (15 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if the waiting time for treatment by the school age team for a person (details supplied) will be adjusted to take into account their appeal; if he will reply to questions on this matter not addressed by the HSE in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47982/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I wish to make an additional point. I accept the logic of companies being able to bring losses forward for the reason outlined by the Minister. He suggested that it does not take place over one year, etc. However, the Minister seems to be studiously avoiding the point that in this case these were not the banks' losses, but public losses. The public paid for these first time around. By...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Last year, the Government acknowledged, after section 110 had been consciously created, that it caused a problem. The Government was supposedly shutting down a major tax avoidance measure, but at the same time keeping this loophole open. At the time the Government estimated in the budget that the shutting down of this so-called loophole in section 110 would raise an additional €50...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 51: In page 42, after line 36, to insert the following: "CHAPTER 7 Financial Transaction Tax30. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the potential additional income that would be raised by imposing a financial transaction tax.". This is a proposal for a report on the potential additional income that would be raised from...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Is that the Minister's full answer? I am just getting the figures here now.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I did not say, "no jobs". The point is that the IFSC, like the City of London, functions as a tax haven for international finance. If one looks at the almost €2 trillion in assets that exist there compared with the number of jobs, the gap is enormous. The average productivity of those working in the IFSC is some incredible figure that is wildly out of whack with productivity in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Government's rationale for not going for an FTT is revealing, as it is a reference to Brexit. There is the possibility that the Brexit we see will be, as Mr. Jeremy Corbyn deemed it, a bargain basement Brexit, with Britain attempting a further race to the bottom in terms of tax of corporations and financial transactions etc. in the City of London. The idea is that this is a particularly...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 52: In page 42, after line 36, to insert the following: “CHAPTER 7 Landlords’ Tax 30. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on abolishing the Local Property Tax and replacing it with a Landlords’ Tax of €600 per annum on a second home and €1,000 per annum on a third and all subsequent...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 53: In page 42, after line 36, to insert the following: “CHAPTER 7 Millionaires’ Tax30. (1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on additional revenue that would be raised by introducing a Millionaires’ Tax of 2 per cent on net wealth exceeding €1 million. (2) The Minister shall, within 6 months of...