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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: When does it have to be completed?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: The key question is whether the loan would be classified as an asset in the sense that where the money comes from would have an effect. Will the Minister of State find out in advance of Report Stage whether such a loan would be classified as an asset?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Schedule includes the agreement. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I oppose it.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Agreements (7 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the European Union-Swiss bilateral negotiations; if he supports the Commission's suspension of research grants to Swiss universities and the suspension of the ERASMUS student exchange programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20212/16]

Criminal Justice Act 1994: Motion (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: In recent weeks and months we have seen the brutality and barbarity of the trade in drugs and its consequences. I was around the corner last week when the murder allegedly took place on Bridgefoot Street as part of this type of conflict. So-called gangs are happy to murder openly people with whom they are in dispute, and may take the lives of their targets or others who are simply in the...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will introduce changes to end the two tier system of pay and conditions in the Public Service that is particularly badly felt for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19799/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I wish to respond to the point about democracy. It is utterly cynical to attempt to portray a vote by workers in favour of, for example, the Lansdowne Road agreement as an endorsement that the Minister can now use to justify the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation, considering that FEMPI existed previously. FEMPI existed in order to act as a gun to the...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: But the Minister used it as justification.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: What?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: But in the context of FEMPI.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Because of FEMPI. That is why it is anti-democratic.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Is there a financial emergency or a recovery? The Minister cannot have both at once.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider a repeal of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation in view of the Government's claims regarding economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19800/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: There was no Brexit then.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I refer to the reports that the European Central Bank is seeking to have sight of, and presumably influence over, Opposition legislation in advance of it being discussed and voted on in this House. The European Central Bank is a body with no democratic legitimacy. It is unelected and unaccountable and has played a disgusting role in the course of European crises in various coups in Italy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. For the information of the Minister, it is Learjet 35, No. N71PG, which is reportedly a CIA aircraft. Obviously, if CIA planes were to land at Shannon Airport and potentially were to have prisoners inside, it would be a very serious matter that the Government would want to investigate. I do not think neutrality is compatible with a policy of allowing soldiers to land...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any contact he or his Department has had with the Brazilian Government since the impeachment of that country's president; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19478/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: These questions are in respect of Brazil. I am sure the Minister is aware that the elected President Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached a couple of months ago in a process that has been described by many as a coup, has been replaced by the Vice President Michel Temer who, despite also being engulfed in corruption scandals, has become the acting president and has unleashed a very serious...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: What has happened in Brazil is fundamentally undemocratic. Its intent is to deny the democratic wish of people as expressed in the last election and to impose an extremely right-wing regressive reactionary government. The Minister should express a statement of opposition to the Government that has come to power via a coup impeachment process. Some of the numerous counter reforms include a...