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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the exemption of Government securities where an owner is not ordinarily resident in Ireland, which is listed in a Revenue Commissioners' table called "Cost of Tax Allowances, Credits, Exemptions and Reliefs"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Data (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the help-to-buy scheme on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated increase in revenue that would result from an increase in the existing two bands of PRSI by 2%, discounting employer's PRSI paid from the public purse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40571/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated increase in revenue that would result from an increase in the current 8.5% rate of employer's PRSI to 10.5%, an increase of the 10.75% rate to 12.75% and the introduction of a new band for employers hiring employees on more than €100,000 of 19.75%; the further estimated increase in net revenue from this...

Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the fact the Government, in particular, has said it is difficult to make any other conclusion other than that the exclusion of these persons contributes to efforts to suppress scrutiny and criticism of Israeli policies in the West Bank. That is completely accurate and is, unfortunately, precisely what is happening. Will the Minister of State give us...

Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: We have already discussed this matter to some degree during Question Time. We know that on Saturday, 9 September, four Irish citizens, Elaine Daly, Fidelma Bonass, Joan Nolan and Stephen McCloskey, were deported from Tel Aviv in Israel. They were deported because they were organising and travelling with a delegation of 31 people, primarily Irish citizens, on an awareness-raising visit to...

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: The conditions in which we saw Ibrahim in prison were harrowing for anyone to face, let alone a young man who was not involved in anything. He only participated in a protest. For him to withstand that is impressive and a testament to him. It should serve to raise interest in Irish society on repression and the oppression that exists in Egypt under el-Sisi and to raise a wider interest in...

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on representations that he has made to secure the release of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a verdict in their trial in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39778/17]

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Justice delayed is justice denied which is the case for Ibrahim Halawa. It is, however, fair to say that many people in this country and around the world were delighted that his campaign was vindicated, he was found not guilty earlier this week. Unfortunately, of the 500 or so involved with him in the mass trial, up to 300 were jailed for varying lengths of time. My question is to know...

Other Questions: Catalan Referendum (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is precisely democratic institutions that are under threat from the Spanish Government. It is the democratically elected regional government of Catalonia that has called the referendum which is a democratic act. In Catalonia the vast majority of people from all backgrounds - measured at over 80% in a recent opinion poll - support the calling of the referendum. That is unlike the example...

Other Questions: Catalan Referendum (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am not asking the Minister to take a position on the referendum or the Irish Government to call for a "Yes" or "No" vote. I am calling on it to recognise that the people have the right to decide and that the referendum should go ahead without horrific repression by the Spanish state that is seeking to shut it down. There are coercive elements in the Spanish state constitution such as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: The notion that slow and steady progress is being made towards democracy in what was Burma is contradicted by what is happening to the Rohingya people. They are a severely oppressed ethnic minority and they are not recognised as such, unlike 135 recognised ethnic groups in Myanmar. They have been denied citizenship under the 1982 law. The government presents them as having come from...

Other Questions: Catalan Referendum (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received reports from the embassy and the consulate in Barcelona regarding the upcoming referendum on Catalan independence; if he has raised this issue with the Spanish authorities or at a European Union level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39779/17]

Other Questions: Catalan Referendum (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government condemn what can only be described as Francoist repression on the part of the Spanish state against the people of Catalonia where there has been an effective occupation by the Spanish state police with the arrest of upwards of 20 government officials, the seizure of ballot boxes, ballot papers and more than 100,000 elections posters, the opening of post and the effective...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether stronger measures should be taken against the Myanmar Government in view of the violence and discrimination carried out against the Rohingya people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39963/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that the Government should make a very strong statement of condemnation of the genocidal violence by the Myanmar Government against the Rohingya ethnic minority? Does she agree with the growing calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of the Nobel peace prize and of the freedom of Dublin city?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for her response and for the Government's statement a few weeks ago. To describe what is happening as excessive violence by the Myanmar state is a significant understatement. What is happening appears to be ethnic cleansing carried out by the Myanmar military in collusion with Buddhist chauvinist mobs. The consequences are very shocking. More than 400,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. What was the thinking behind the hashtag advert which went, "Orla and her boyfriend stopped renting and moved back with their parents to save the deposit for their 1st home"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Would Mr. McLoughlin accept that the story the bank was telling, as described by Francis Doherty of the Peter McVerry Trust, that it pointed to a strategy by the banks to entice people to borrow as much as possible to buy houses that are as unaffordable as possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: Clearly, the narrative that the story is a part of is an expression of a part of the housing crisis in that people are unable to rent, are forced back to live with their families or parents in order to be able to afford to go on and rent or to get a mortgage. Does Mr. McLoughlin accept that it was ill-advised?