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Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: No, it is all in the public domain. The Minister has admitted to this. There is no-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: This is all completely in the public domain.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I have an apology from the Metropolitan Police here. It is admitted; it is not in question. The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality has answered questions admitting he was here. This man was here and had intimate relations with women using his false identity as an environmental activist.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: It has been raised multiple times in the House. He was in Ireland and it is admitted he was in Ireland on multiple occasions. He participated in the Shell to Sea protests in the Taoiseach's constituency. He organised meetings here in the run-up to the protest in Gleneagles at the G8 in 2005. He was arrested by the Garda in Dublin on 3 May 2004. Sarah Hampton, a US citizen, met Mark...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I would like a commitment from the Taoiseach that when that meeting takes place, a formal request will be made for the inquiry to be extended to Ireland. It is incomprehensible and unexplainable why that request has not been made unless the Irish Government is saying its protection of British spies in Ireland takes priority over the wish of these people for answers and justice. We have more...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: In court in Belfast yesterday, campaigners against political policing won a full hearing into the failure to include Northern Ireland in the Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing in Britain. This comes after the Stormont Minister of Justice officially requested its inclusion. The German Government has written to the British Government seeking the inclusion of the actions of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The NewERA paper is quite significant to our work. One will remember that, at a certain stage, the off-balance-sheet argument became a really key one for Irish Water. The objective in being off balance sheet was to allow borrowing that would not appear on our books under the fiscal rules and so on. The former Minister Deputy Alan Kelly said when Irish Water had failed the EUROSTAT test...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Are there substantial advantages to having it in this failed off-balance sheet model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Capital expenditure is a key part of what we are considering because we believe there needs to be more capital investment in water infrastructure in the coming years. The delegates outlined three possible options in their paper, one being to retain the existing plan which is to have Irish Water borrowing privately at higher rates, with the State being able to borrow directly; the second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: There is a significant yearly cost in the current model versus Government borrowing. Who does the cost fall on? Is it accurate to say it falls on taxpayers? This could be via two mechanisms, namely, the payment of direct and indirect taxes, and the payment of water charges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The public will end up paying for the additional cost in the current model of borrowing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Irish Water tried to install meters in various locations but was prevented from doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the delegates for their submission and for attending. I read Rural Water News. There is a very important editorial in it that is written in bold by the delegates. I agree with it very much. It states that to ignore the group water scheme subsidy arrangement introduced originally when public domestic water charges were abolished in the late 1990s leads to a one-sided debate and an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is very helpful. To follow up on that, I have a point related to some questions already asked. If we arrive at a position in which those under Irish Water do not have any charges, we must have an arrangement whereby, at least in terms of current expenditure as opposed to capital expenditure, those in group water schemes do not end up paying charges from their own pockets. Some of...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Minister did not write that answer, but it is shameful to hide behind such a narrow interpretation of the O'Keeffe ruling. Ms Louise O'Keeffe has commented on the matter of the prior complaint against the abuser in question. She has stated that there is no legal basis for suggesting that it is necessary to establish a prior sexual abuse before one can succeed. This is simply not the...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: At least meet them to explain that.

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: There are some very courageous men and their families in the Visitors Gallery. These are the men who suffered, along with others, the horrific sexual abuse in the late 1960s and who have had the courage to speak out and campaign about it despite all the difficulties they have faced along every avenue they have tried to go down. This is a very distressing issue, as one realises when one...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: He was not able to go to America.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: This is the Dáil. An event of immense importance has happened over the course of the weekend. Millions of people are being denied access to America by a racist Muslim ban and it has happened to at least one person on Irish soil so we have to have a debate. A motion is all very well but we have no interest in signing up to an all-party motion which will say a cúpla focal of...