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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (25 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on representations that he has made to international bodies regarding the persecution of the Rohingya population in Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (25 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has contacted the President of the United States of America, Mr Donald Trump; his views on the policies of his administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Extradition Arrangements (25 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the potential extradition of a person (details supplied) to the United States of America, in view of comments made by President Trump regarding the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3054/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: First, I do not agree with the majority position in the committee or the position of the Parliament. Our group, the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, voted against it in the Parliament because we think tax avoidance is one of the major scandals of our age. It is a major contributory factor to the inequality which sees eight people in the world own the same as the bottom 50% and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will be concrete as to the reason I believe the Irish Government would be concerned about the CCCTB. In terms of those who play the game of the mismatches between tax systems, would lawyers, corporate lawyers and accountancy firms not lose out? They are a major element in this, and they have political weight. Is it the case that those corporate lawyers and accountants who are engaged in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Commissioner spoke at a corporate tax event today the title of which was Ireland Vs The World. That gives one a sense of how sections of the elite in Ireland see this question of tax competition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Would the Commissioner agree that in terms of the model of tax competition, and this goes beyond the question of the CCCTB, which the Irish Government at times advocates - it is part of what is described as an industrial policy but in reality it is a policy of tax competition - the space for that policy is dramatically restrained by two events, namely, the prospect of a so-called bargain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The apportionment of one third of profits by reference to sales is irrational. It leads to an element of double counting because the countries already get a benefit from VAT and it clearly benefits the bigger economies with no justification because it does not relate to value being added - real production that leads to profits. What is the justification for one third going to sales?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The profit is not created at the point of sale, it is realised. The profit has already been made in the sense that value has been added to the product by a combination of different forms of labour, including intellectual property.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (24 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed with management of Trinity College Dublin proposals to freeze promotions for non-academic staff and to impose a moratorium on offering permanent contracts to non-academic staff; his views regarding increased precarity in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2540/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I will address my questions to Ms Graham. In her comments on proving compliance with a directive she said the burden of proof was on the member state concerned. That seems to be completely inaccurate. In the European Court of Justice v. Greece, C 600/12, the court reiterated that, according to case law on the burden of proof in infringement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The burden of proof in the court would be on the European Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Would the burden of proof be on the European Commission or the member state?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Ms Graham uses the phrase "burden of proof" which is the legal term. I am asking a very clear question. In a case in the European Court of Justice is the burden of proof on the European Commission or the member state? I can tell Ms Graham that, according to case law, it is on the Commission, but I would like her to say it considering that she said the opposite a few moments ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: That is not the case. According to case law, the burden of proof is on the European Commission. Ms Graham should not mislead the committee if she is doing so on purpose, or else she should look up the case law. She should not use words such as "burden of proof". The burden of proof is on the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: What is it secured against?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is fair to say that would mean increased water charges for the average user if we were to meet EUROSTAT levels.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Irish Water said the rate was 1.4% more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: Probably per year.

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Paul Murphy: The housing crisis is not a result of the system breaking down but of the system working as intended. That is, unfortunately, precisely what is happening in this country. It is as described by Mr. Peter Marcuse, the author of In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis. It is a global phenomenon whereby housing has become commodified and faceless vultures are able to comb the globe in...