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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...

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...