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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Bodies Contracts (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the contracts entered into by her Department and its agencies with a company (details supplied); the nature of these contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13145/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Bodies Contracts (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the contracts entered into by An Garda Síochána with a company (details supplied); the nature of these contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13146/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on contacts his Department has had with the board of management of a school (details supplied) that provides education facilities for children with special needs regarding the special needs assistants allocation of that school; if the school will be permitted to hire four more SNAs to cater for the needs of the children; and...

Prohibition of Wild Animals in Circuses Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move:Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to prohibit the use of wild animals in circuses; and to provide for related matters. This Bill will amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to introduce a new offence of using wild animals in a circus and also to create an offence of training wild animals for performing or exhibiting in a circus. Our position is...

Prohibition of Wild Animals in Circuses Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Business of Dáil (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is definitely not agreed because we should be having a debate here today if the Government wants to postpone further the deadline for the water committee. Second, we should not be doing it at all. I guess we have had more than 50 hours of discussion in committee. We have had years of discussion in society and the matter was an important issue during the general election campaign. We...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: Next week, the Cheltenham festival will start and we will have wall-to-wall coverage. Advertising by gambling companies will seek to have people place bets with them. Approximately €5 billion is gambled every year in Ireland and there are approximately 40,000 problem gamblers. The Rutland Centre has indicated that it has seen a large rise in the number of people seeking treatment...

European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: I apologise for being late but I could not see whether Deputy Boyd Barrett was actually speaking because the cameras in the Chamber are pointed sideways because of his jumper. To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the European Council worked on a draft declaration on the future of the European Union, in which we see Italy, Germany, France and Spain endorsing-----

European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: We see the endorsement of the idea of a multi-speed Europe which is a reflection of the crisis within the European Union. It is also a reflection of the crisis of the so-called extreme centre which has borne within it the extreme right that we currently see. The reality is that the EU is an institution that was founded, and which has acted, to enhance the interests of imperialism and big...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: Here we are again with the left bringing the movement for women's bodily autonomy and women's rights into the Dáil. Outside the Dáil there is a majority who support the repeal of the eighth amendment and a majority who support the extension of abortion rights. In here, in this debate, we are in a small minority because of how conservative and how influenced by the Catholic Church...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Efficiency (7 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: 760. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a detailed breakdown and report of the areas of expenditure of the energy efficiency fund since 2014; the audit measures in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12007/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Human Rights (7 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: 830. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, with regard to the case of a person (details supplied), the State is in a position to offer an apology on the basis of the subsequent chain of events; if she will provide further information regarding the circumstances of the person's transferral to Northern Ireland; if consent was sought from the person's parent for such a transfer;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Languages Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a recent EUROSTAT report (details supplied) showing that Ireland has the second lowest level of foreign-language learning in schools in the EU27 and a rate significantly below the average; his further views on the decline since 2009; the measures he will take to improve resources for foreign language learning; and if he will make a...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: We did a lot while Deputy Durkan was away temporarily.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: We are not neutral in this dispute. We are on the side of the Tesco workers, wish them victory and think a victory for them is a victory for all workers. There are those who would like to think that the union, solidarity, strike action and pickets being respected are things that belong in the past - in the epoch of Connolly and Larkin. It is predominantly young workers and female workers...

Other Questions: State Banking Sector (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to privatise the State's shares in the banking sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10025/17]

Other Questions: State Banking Sector (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: AIB was the recipient of the second biggest bank bailout in the world - €20.7 billion – more than Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs combined, and second only to Anglo Irish Bank. Could the Minister report on his plans to privatise 25% of AIB at a significant loss to the taxpayer and could he give a commitment that there will be a vote in the Dáil before any such decision...

Other Questions: State Banking Sector (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: More than €20 billion of public money was put in and AIB is now valued at €11.3 billion. That is a fire sale by anyone's standards and it is a rip-off of the public in order to hand the banks back into private ownership and the disaster that was and will be. A particular result is that in advance of the privatisation, which is under way, and presumably it will continue after...

Other Questions: State Banking Sector (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The consequences of the privatisation or part-privatisation of AIB are clear. There would be a loss of public funds that were invested and the money that goes back would just go straight off the debt. There would also be a loss of potential control of a bank, which instead of being an instrument for profit could be an instrument for the benefit of society. In addition, there would be a...