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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the treatment of a person (details supplied); if the time appealing decisions will be taken into account for the school age team waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35408/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I have a different assessment of the role of NAMA over the past period, close to a decade at this stage. I want to inquire along two different lines which I think probably relate to both Mr. Frank Daly and Mr. Brendan McDonagh. One is on the role of NAMA as an enabler of vulture funds, facilitating their control of large swathes of land and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have read section 10 of the Act and I note that it includes that NAMA's "purposes shall be to contribute to the achievement of the purposes specified in section 2 by". Section 2 is referred to as an overall guiding principle, and included in the overall guiding principle is the point about contributing to the social and economic development of the State. That is one of the principles of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: Will Mr. McDonagh repeat that? I missed it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: Let us go through it bit by bit. Unfortunately, the debate on the Summer Economic Statement has taken many of our members away, so we have a bit of time. On the issue of the vulture funds, putting the legal matter aside for a minute, does Mr. McDonagh accept that there is a problem when a large portion of NAMA's sales of large portfolios has gone to international funds? Mr. McDonagh does...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I agree with that. We must incentivise it in some way or force the building on homes on land or whatever. On behalf of NAMA, the witness is effectively saying it is none of his business, which is to make money for NAMA as quickly as possible. There are two points in that regard. Does the witness not accept that in selling multi-billion euro portfolios, it tilts towards what the witness...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have another question and if I get the chance I will come back in afterwards. There is the matter of the write-off. The witness has stated NAMA got all the money back because it is measuring it not against the par value of €74 billion but rather the €30 billion-odd. At the time NAMA was set up, the then Minister for Finance, former Deputy Brian Lenihan, stated the loans...
- Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I met a woman a number of years ago now, towards the middle of the crisis, when I was an MEP, who was facing mortgage distress and crisis. She was about my age or slightly younger. She was being harassed and harangued by the bank for the mortgage arrears in every way possible - emails, phone calls, and so on. Despite all her explanations about the conditions that were giving rise to her...
- Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: It is something the Government hides behind whenever it suits, saying it cannot do it because it is unconstitutional. When it does not suit, it will be utterly forgotten.
- Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I just won a court case on the basis of a constitutional article, on the defence of the right to protest. I thank the Minister. I would like to think I did my bit to uphold the Constitution. More needs to be done. The vulture funds have to be stopped. Their mortgage books should be brought into public ownership under compulsory purchase with the sale price as a maximum. That was...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: Okay. Let us forget about the court for a minute and let us deal with politicians because this actually started with politicians. It started-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: Excuse me. Can I-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: It might pain you all, or at least lots of you-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: -----that a jury actually watched the evidence and found us not guilty. I am sorry, but that is the way it works.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: This started with politicians.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have been interrupted non-stop.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: Let me pose the question. I will not go back to the court case, I guarantee the Ceann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: This started with politicians. It started with a Labour Minister a few hours after the protest saying that it was false imprisonment.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: It was followed by the former Taoiseach saying that it was kidnapping. It was followed by the now Taoiseach saying that it was thuggery. It was followed by the Taoiseach's lost colleague, Mr. Noel Coonan, describing it as the same as ISIS. That was echoed by large sections of the media. Now, politicians - not courts - have to deal with the consequences.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)
Paul Murphy: If the Taoiseach believes that there is a serious chance, as there is, that the gardaí gave false evidence-----