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Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider increasing the funding to the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force in view of the fact that the task force did not receive a commensurate increase in its budget following the increase in its responsibilities when alcohol was added to its remit in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35950/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 429. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the budget for drug and alcohol task forces; his further views on whether increased funding should form part of the new strategic action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35951/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of 24-hour emergency dental cover; if his Department has made any plans to expand the coverage of emergency dental cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36153/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress towards reaching the goal in Rebuilding Ireland that by mid-2017, emergency hotel and bed and breakfast type accommodation for families will only be used in limited circumstances. [35428/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Assets Sale (17 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the advertisement of NAMA rental properties for sale on the basis of the potential for large rent increases and reports that a bank (details supplied) intends to sell off up to €1.9 billion in distressed buy-to-let mortgages to vulture funds, in view of the impact this could have on tenants; and...

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Government would like to get away from the core issue, which is pay equality. I do not think it can because that is central, but it would like to. For example, the question of increments is fine. Nobody has a problem with the idea that someone who has ten years experience should be paid more than someone with five years experience - that is not what we are talking about. However, some...

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he envisages difficulties in recruiting extra teachers, as outlined in the budget speech made by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in view of the inferior terms and conditions for new teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30837/16]

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: In last month's budget, the Government set out its plans to recruit an additional 2,400 teachers. How on earth does the Minister expect to recruit teachers given that new teachers are beginning on a lower payscale? How does he think new entrants can be attracted into a two-tier system in which unequal pay for equal work is enshrined?

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Minister has said that there is "no more important area in which we can invest" than education, but his policy of fighting to maintain pay inequality at the core of this country's teaching profession is a funny way of showing it. Even with the TUI agreement, new teachers who are coming in are suffering a significant pay gap. Some of them are paid €6,000 or €7,000 less than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 8 November 2016, if his Department has considered the balance of schools of different ethoi in the Tallaght area; if his Department has considered the lack of an Educate Together secondary school in the Citywest area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35174/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing a ban on wild animal circuses on animal welfare grounds; if his Department has investigated the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35389/16]

European Defence Agency: Motion (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: We do not want to be involved in any prettifying of the EDA, which is a peddler of death, or any presentation of the agency as it has been presented by the Government. The Government's statement in the White Paper on Defence that the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces are committed "to improving the potential for Irish enterprise to compete for Defence contracts" means that it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: We are opposing section 15 of the Bill. It is restoring full interest deductibility for rented residential property over a five-year period at 5% a year, going from 75% to 80% and back up to 100%. It was a key demand made by the landlord lobby groups, certainly to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness and, presumably, also to the Government. The Government has agreed to it and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: We are opposed to the reduction in DIRT because it is clearly regressive. Those who will benefit are those who have money, which I do not begrudge them. This reduction will benefit sections of society that have larger amounts of money already saved. At a time of low-paid workers, underfunded public services, austerity taxes and so on I do not think it is appropriate to provide for a tax...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I have a brief question. In the material for the budget, I think the estimate given for the revenue to be raised by this measure is €50 million, which is small in terms of the scale of what is being talked about and the amount of tax avoidance that has been happening through section 110. How is this figure accounted for? Why is there such a gap between what is reported as going...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: When the Minister of State says the figure does not include anticipated or potential behavioural changes, would those behavioural changes have the impact of reducing or increasing the figure? I presume the former on the basis that these companies choose to operate in a different way because they cannot avoid tax in this way.

Other Questions: European Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has made provisions for instability in the European banking sector in view of reported difficulties in German and Italian banks in particular; and the discussions he has had with his counterparts on this matter. [34038/16]

Other Questions: European Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: What are the Minister's views on the possibility of a significant second wave of a European banking crisis with an epicentre perhaps in Germany with Deutsche Bank or in Italy and the suffering banking system there? Has the Minister made any preparations for the impact of such a crisis in Ireland in terms of the banking system and the economy?

Other Questions: European Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The fundamental thing is that it is eight years since the outbreak of the major financial and banking crisis, which had a particular European dimension, and the policies implemented in response to it did not deal with the fundamentals and did not fundamentally deal with the unsustainable debts which exist. The bailout funds which have been set up are not substantial enough to deal with the...

Other Questions: European Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The problem will be when the money runs out in the common European banking funds and the resolution funds, because the money can run out when we speak about amounts of €360 billion. Who will pay for it then? Take the example of Deutsche Bank, which was being described as a potential Lehman Brothers 2.0. Obviously, it subsequently returned profits and things have calmed down...