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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:"3. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the cost and implications of abolishing the Universal Social Charge for everyone earning less than €90,000 per annum.". If we could move an amendment to simply abolish the USC for everyone earning less than...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is a different report. It is fair enough that the Minister agrees to that different report but he does not agree to this one. The wording is not entirely clear and there was some confusion when we were submitting parliamentary questions in advance of the budget. We were talking about the USC, renamed effectively as a high income social charge applying to marginal income exceeding...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Section 6 deals with mortgage interest relief. During all of the discussion on the tracker mortgages, what struck me is how the Revenue would deal with redress payments by the banks. Can it be agreed that the Revenue Commissioners will not pursue people who effectively get the benefit of mortgage interest relief when they are paid compensation at a later stage and will not attempt to claw...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the section. It is fine. I am for promoting electric cars. However, if there is any idea in the Department or the Government that the answer to reducing the amount of greenhouse gases produced by the transport sector is electric cars, then it is missing the point. Transport is the second biggest producer of greenhouse gases in Ireland. The way to reduce greenhouse emissions by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Since 2008.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: The figures I have state that across the three branches of CIE, Government subvention is down €67 million from 2008.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: Can the Minister explain the figures? Or give me the figures that he has?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I checked the figures and I think the €67 million figure was incorrect. It was meant to be 67% and that has been rounded up on the other thing. However, the figures that repeatedly come across in various discussions in the Dáil, both in the committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport and in the Dáil as a whole, refer to a total subvention to the CIE group of €321...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 6:In page 13, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“10. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the additional revenue that could be raised by introducing new tax bands for earnings over €100,000 as follows:(a) Earnings between €100,000 and €140,000 - 50 per cent; (b) Earnings between...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Government likes to focus on marginal rates of tax, but the key issue for workers, be they low, middle or high-income earners, is the effective rate of tax on an overall basis. If this amendment were combined with our proposal to abolish the USC on income under €90,000, the effective rate of tax paid by even relatively high earners would still be approximately 50% or lower as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the process of site acquisition for a school (details supplied); when the process will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46199/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the process of site acquisition for a school (details supplied); if the planning permission process can begin before the site acquisition is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (7 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: 1225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has obliged An Post to request the public services card from welfare recipients when collecting payments; if her Department obliges An Post to request the production of identification from welfare recipients when collecting payments; if so, the identification documents which are accepted; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which housing will be managed in view of the ending of the Cabinet committee on housing. [39676/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (26 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the additional maternity leave and benefit for mothers of premature babies who are currently on maternity leave but the children of which were born before 1 October 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45396/17]

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. I want to start by quoting from an email I received from a woman named Caitríona. It states:We fixed our mortgage in August 2007 for three years, and it clearly stated on our fixing contract from Ulster Bank that we had the option of returning to our tracker rate upon the expiry of the fixed period. As happened many others, of course, this...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Staff (25 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister about the impending industrial action by special needs assistants who have voted by 97% for industrial action. I understand it relates to the allocation by the National Council for Special Education. For four years in a row it has been very late - up to July - in allocating which schools would get how many SNAs etc., which obviously has a hugely disruptive impact on the...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Staff (25 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister for the answer. I fully support the SNAs in the action they have voted for and are contemplating. It is not acceptable for them not to know if they have a job to return to and they are unable to apply for redeployment in the event that they do not. What they are requesting is very simple. I ask the Minister to give the simple commitments that in future SNA allocations...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Staff (25 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: If the Minister can give a commitment that this is resolved once and for all and it will not be happening again after happening for four years in a row, I would say that SNAs would be relieved to hear that. For the past couple of summers I have been contacted by school principals and SNAs affected by this. On the more general issue of allocation of SNAs, I welcome the increase in SNAs....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Education and Training Boards (25 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: An opt-out is not enough and neither is guidelines on an opt-out because it is a question of what ethos schools have. The CEO of the ETB in Tipperary told ETB school principals that the Christian belief, ethos and spirit of their schools was Catholic and this needed to be addressed in all policies. She recently stood over that claim. The Minister needs to respond to it and clarify whether...