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Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: That answer basically confirms that we still plan to privatise and will do it at the right time. Obviously, I am against the privatisation and sell-off of these enormously important assets given the potential lever, if under public democratic control, they give in terms of the economy and people's living standards. When does Minister believe it will be the right time? Will it be soon or is...

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Sunday Independentreported that the State valued its holding in AIB at €13.3 billion at the end of 2014 and just €9 billion in June of this year. I also asked about the €1.9 billion worth of buy-to-let properties.

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: One consequence of this drive to privatisation could be the sell-off of buy-to-let property loans to vulture funds. Is it accurate that AIB is planning to sell off close to €2 billion worth of those? Could that result in thousands of tenants in buy-to-let properties being evicted as the vulture funds seek to take vacant possession for sale? While I want an answer to that question,...

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is reconsidering the planned privatisation of the State's share in the banks in view of the recent fall in their respective share prices and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34039/16]

Other Questions: Banking Sector (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister planning to reconsider the privatisation of the State's share in the banks in view of the significant decline in their share prices? For example, the State's 15% shareholding in Bank of Ireland has halved in value this year so on that basis will the Minister and Government agree to reconsider and not go ahead with privatisation?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I have land records showing that Mr. Brian Walsh and the other person in question co-own six properties. I have other information from the Companies Registration Office, CRO, showing their relationship. I have still other information on common loans that were taken out. They have a business relationship. I am able to provide this information to the Minister and he is aware that a business...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reports in the press (details supplied) of repeated lobbying by a former Deputy to NAMA in regard to his business partners' interests in properties controlled by NAMA and the allegation in those reports that those business relationships were not declared to NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34251/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: What are the Minister's views on a series of articles by Mark Tighe in The Sunday Timeson former Fine Gael Deputy Brian Walsh lobbying repeatedly on behalf of his business partners, particularly Mr. Liam Mulryan and Michael Finn, over a period of close to three years without making any disclosure to NAMA of his business relationships with those two people? Does the Minister agree that it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I referenced the letter to NAMA from Mr. Brian Walsh on headed Deputy notepaper raising a question about the sale of land that was subsequently put on the open market and sold to Mr. Liam Mulryan. In the letter, he urges NAMA to take measures to rectify the situation in a manner that benefits the taxpayer. Elsewhere, he refers to being contacted by "a concerned member of the public",...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: I completely oppose SARP as it is a tax break for a small number of well paid corporate executives and illustrates the Government's approach. The Government cannot give pay equality to gardaí, teachers and low paid public sector workers but it can dole out tax breaks to some of the most well paid people in this country. The scheme is completely odious and the fact that the Government...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: This section relates to the extension of the foreign earnings deduction which is a tax break to a relatively small number of people. I am opposed to this section and would like to hear the Minister's explanation for it, why it is adding to the number of eligible countries on the list but also reducing the number of days. As far as I can the see the qualifying days have gone from 60 days, to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister explain why there is a further reduction in the number of days? When the measure was originally introduced it was 60 days, then it was 40 days and now it is proposed to go to 30 days. This is quite a difference. The more fundamental point is that I have not heard any evidence, or any basis upon which to develop the evidence, to say that this scheme works with regard to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: It is scandalous. If members of the public was aware of what was happening here, which is a double bailout for the banks at the expense of taxpayers, they would be appalled. We bailed out the banks but they continue to have a tax benefit as a result. The Government is opposed to even having a report about how this could be curtailed. The annual financial report of AIB for 2014 stated that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: It should be because we bailed them out.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will conduct a review of the projected cost of the exemption from capital gains tax he granted to investments in commercial property where the property is held for seven years or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34041/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the comments by the chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (details supplied) on compliance with EU fiscal rules; his views on whether the EU fiscal rules are therefore overly restrictive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30839/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on block sales of NAMA rented residential properties being advertised (details supplied) for sale on the basis of the potential for very large rent increases, in view of the scale of the housing crisis and the likelihood rent increases on this scale could effectively lead to mass evictions of tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on reports from a group (details supplied) that Italian authorities tortured migrants, including beatings, sexual humiliation and electric shocks, to meet an EU target of 100% of migrants giving fingerprints; if he will raise the issue with his Italian and EU counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34114/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European affairs last met. [33524/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Did the committee discuss the question of CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, which has been a source of major controversy across Europe over the past number of weeks? CETA is seen to represent TTIP in Canadian clothes. The ISDS system is simply renamed "the investor court system" and provides corporations with the right to sue states if they interfere with the...