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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent speech by the French President (details supplied) in which he called for access to structural funds to be linked with co-operation on a European corporation tax policy by 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41562/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I was explaining what I consider to be one of the lessons of the battle against water charges, which is that Fianna Fáil cannot be trusted. I will go into more detail now to illustrate how this Bill, which Deputy Cowen - who sounded more like "Minister" Cowen last night - was at such pains to defend, shows that Fianna Fáil cannot be trusted. At the conclusion of the deliberations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. Could I start by asking for their assessment of the overall financial health of Permanent TSB? As the figures show, the numbers of mortgages in arrears in private dwelling homes and in buy-to-lets have come down substantially, based on reduced payment, arrears capitalisation and the various schemes to which the witnesses have referred. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Masding. Question 13 on page 17 relates to how many owner-occupier and buy-to-let mortgages have been sold to investment vulture funds and other financial service providers. The bank does not really give a figure; it gives an amount of money and the scale of the portfolio that was sold. Does Mr. Masding have an idea of how many mortgages on properties were sold as part of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Groarke have any idea what happened to the tenants in those properties? Were tenants evicted after the loans were sold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Groarke does not have any figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: My question is more about whether the bank collates those figures. Does the bank take into account what will happen to those people currently in those homes when making decisions on to whom it will sell loan books?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: If the witnesses could come back with those figures it would be very helpful. My other related question is on the buy-to-lets. If we add together the figures for assisted voluntary sales and the voluntary surrender we get 787. This is an increase of some 90 on last year's figures. Do the witnesses have any idea whether tenants were evicted in any of those circumstances to achieve vacant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Is Mr. O'Sullivan saying that tenants are not evicted? I appreciate that it is voluntary but it is voluntary for the landlord as opposed to the tenant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: So Permanent TSB abides by the lease, lets the time run out and then the tenant is gone? I appreciate that as Permanent TSB is set up, it has commercial obligations and tries to maximise its profit etc., but from the perspective of being a primarily State-owned bank, it contributes to the housing crisis in doing so. A big source of people becoming homeless is eviction from tenancies,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Once a property that Permanent TSB possesses becomes vacant, how long will it remain vacant until somebody is living in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: My question is how long it is vacant rather than how long the tenant stays in it.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will split my speech in half. I will deal with the details of the Bill in the second half tomorrow and will deal now with the question of how far we have come in the debate on water charges. I remember very well when we would be met in here every day, and in the media, by Ministers from Fine Gael and the Labour Party who would tell us that everyone would have to pay their water charges...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Correct.

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is not a flawless answer.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Canada and his meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister in August 2017. [39677/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the rearranging of Cabinet Committees. [39676/17]

UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is evident that there is a new sacred cow in Irish politics. The traditional sacred cow of the establishment has been our corporation tax rate. It could not be touched and was the cornerstone of anything good that happened in this country. The new sacred cow is the received wisdom among the political parties and political commentators that Brexit, by definition, is a bad thing for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Roman Catholic Church leaders on 31 August 2017. [39675/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Did the Taoiseach take the opportunity to raise with the representatives of the Catholic Church the problem of discrimination against transgender and non-binary students in State-funded schools run by the Catholic Church and the lack of mandatory LGBTQ-positive education? This is obviously an issue for all schools, but it is particularly the case for the Catholic Church given its transphobic...