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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 672. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and why she does not invoke Article 218.11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and ask the European Court of Justice to deliver a legal ruling as to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty solutions with the investor-state dispute settlement promote discrimination based on nationality, but in a post-Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape allowing Canadian businesses or European Union-businesses with a Canadian owner to have privileged access to a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Agreements (5 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: 674. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she intends to protect Irish citizens from the EU Commission’s proposal to provisionally apply the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement prior to a definitive legal ruling as to the distribution of competences relating to new proposals to subject the European Union to an investor state dispute settlement under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Not with the penalties. People lost their dole over it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: That is one up for North Korea.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has consulted with any organisations in regard to the creation of a new labour activation measure to replace JobBridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any new labour activation measure which he plans to introduce to replace JobBridge will pay participants at least the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18795/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: A piece of advice for the Government with regard to the previous matter is that if the proposal has nothing to do with the scheme in Britain, perhaps it should not call it the exact same name as the scheme in Britain. People cannot be blamed for thinking they are same.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Considering that, for example, the JobBridge scheme, which we are going to talk about now, came from Britain and that the welfare model, in general, which the previous Government pursued was borrowed from Britain, it is not a significant stretch of the imagination to make that connection. Questions Nos. 11 and 14 relate to the issue of JobBridge. We welcome the fact that JobBridge is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I strongly dispute the notion that a high progression rate from JobBridge into work was proven. There was no causative link proven because there was not a controlled group in, for example, the Indecon study. For example, approximately 29% of people progressed into the employment of the host organisation but 29% of employers also said that if JobBridge did not exist, they would have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Tell that to the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Measures (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: There is plenty of evidence to suggest those who took part in JobBridge were not satisfied. They may have felt they had no alternative or that it was a better option than sitting at home unemployed. According to the National Youth Council of Ireland, only 45% would recommend it to a friend, and 44% said the company used the scheme solely for free labour. The bottom line is that any scheme...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: So that is it.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: It is completely undemocratic.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: If the Government showed some respect for the Dáil.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: We need a debate today.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Why are we not debating it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I wish to pick up on the rainy day fund. The first point is an obvious one in that for lots of people out there the rain is already pouring in terms of the crisis of homelessness, especially when 2,000 children are sleeping in hotels. The questions I have relate to, first, the recognition of that reality and, second, the fact that we already have what one could call a rainy day fund in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Fundamentally, whether the Minister is going to use the rainy day fund for future bank bailouts or-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I think the problem there-----