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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...

Other Questions: State Banking Sector (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: We took it over for €20 billion.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Legal Cases (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to publish the advice from a company (details supplied) that his Department commissioned regarding a case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10026/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the sale of Project Cyprus by a bank (details supplied); his views on the impact of the sale on tenants of the bank's buy-to-let properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10028/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Treaties (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his reasoning for his reported opposition to country to country reporting proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10027/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtors (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of debt repaid by debtors who are leaving NAMA; the amount of debt they had owed when entering NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10071/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his efforts to improve the provision of affordable motor insurance; his views on whether the levels of profit in the sector needs to be focused on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10072/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (28 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 578. To ask the Minister for Health the policy regarding the costs charged to persons for use of a hospital bed who are ready for discharge but who are awaiting a nursing home place in HSE hospitals and Tallaght Hospital; his views on whether these charges are fair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9887/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Undocumented Irish in the USA (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the immigration policies of President Trump; his further views on policies that discriminate on the basis of religion and block access to asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8763/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent policy change by President Trump regarding the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8762/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The previous US Government, in its last few months in office, agreed a new military deal with Israel worth €38 billion over ten years. Then President Trump came to office. Within days, the Israeli Government announced the construction of 2,500 new settler homes in the West Bank. Within a few weeks, Trump withdrew from the previous, at least verbal, support of the US for a two-state...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that the strategy of the Israeli right, which is clearly in power, is to invent facts? In 1977, 5,000 settlers lived in the West Bank. Now, however, 400,000 settlers live in the West Bank and 200,000 in east Jerusalem. There is an attempt to avoid any prospect of a viable Palestinian state and to undermine that prospect completely. This is now actively supported by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Trump's intentions are very clear from his statements about a one-state solution, his undertaking to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, his refusal to view Israeli settlements as an obstacle to peace and his decision to stop pressurising the Israeli Government to negotiate. This is in a context in which the number of demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank is increasing yearly at an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is going to the US in any event.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I wish to follow up on the answers or non-answers by the Minister earlier to my raising of the issue of the Pitchford inquiry.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: They were very evasive answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will ask again what the Minister raised with the Secretary of State. He keeps saying he raised the concerns that we raised, but what concerns did he raise? I am not asking for him to repeat into the record the details or anything like that, but did he request the extension of the Pitchford inquiry to include Ireland? Did he ask or wonder about what on earth undercover British police...