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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Why did the Government do nothing about this matter two and a half years ago when it was first raised in the Dáil? At that time, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, referred to the allegations as "a contention" and added that the former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, had pointed out that "because a person may elect not to abide by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: -----by owners. The question is clear. Why did the Government not do anything about this two and a half years ago? Why did it sit on it when workers were denied freedom of movement, subjected to sleep deprivation, exposed to dangerous work practices and so forth?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Government should be ashamed of the fact that it did not do something about this sooner. In terms of the task force, why was the International Transport Workers Federation, ITF, not involved, given that it has been doing work on this issue for years? Mr. Ken Fleming, in particular, has been trying to expose these practices for a long time. The Departments involved in the task force...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on measures he has taken in monitoring compliance with workplace legislation in the fishing industry, with particular reference to migrant labour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41851/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister is aware of the cases of gross exploitation and slave-like conditions of undocumented migrant workers in the fishing industry in Ireland, exposed by The Guardian. The Minister was asked about this issue almost two and half years ago by Deputy Joe Higgins. He referred to it as a contention and the International Transport Federation has done much work on it. What...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the reformed approach advocated by the European Union for investment protection in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations changes the fundamentals of an approach which enshrines corporate access to justice ahead of that of ordinary citizens. [41853/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation given correspondence showing a company offering a training rate of pay below the minimum wage, if he is aware of the prevalence of this practice; the steps he is taking to monitor compliance with minimum wage legislation; the number of cases that have been investigated by his Department in the past three years; and if his Department...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Exemptions (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider an exemption from motor tax for blood motor bicycles, a volunteer service that transports blood between hospitals but which is not able to avail of the motor tax exemption available to ambulances, as such an exemption would bring the treatment of the service in line with the approach of other...

Credit Union Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The problem with the one-size-fits-all approach of the Minister and the Government is that they are treating credit unions like financial institutions, such as banks, when they are no such thing. They are a mass movement with nearly 3 million members, democratically run, rooted in communities, based on volunteers and run not for profit but in the interests of their members. It is worth...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Voting to give them power to implement cuts, while continuing to say the campaign against Tory cuts must continue, is not a very effective way of stopping them. The £585 million supposedly to mitigate the worst effects of welfare reform is less than the previous amount agreed, while there are more welfare cuts than previously agreed. The £585 million is not new money but will come...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: A "bad deal, fit only for a land of pound shops and food banks", is how the trade union movement vividly and accurately described last year's Stormont House Agreement in advertisements in newspapers. Now, after a year of political crisis in the North, we have "A Fresh Start" agreement, which, in reality, is a worse deal again. Far from a fresh start, it is a rotten continuation of austerity...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: We live in a corporate welfare state that has not developed accidentally. It is the developmental model of successive Governments, driven by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It is an ideology to which the parties are absolutely wedded. It is based on the notion that the only way to attract investment into the country is by winning the race to the bottom, be it through tax competition, in...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Barryroe.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: It was declared commercially viable in 2012.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: There are 20 billion barrels of oil.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is sad to see how far Deputy Rabbitte has travelled from being the rumoured author of the pamphlet I mentioned earlier to being the apologist, the excuser, of the continuation of the giveaway of oil and gas resources to major multinational corporations. The figure of 20 million barrels of oil equivalent, which includes gas, is not made up but is from the companies' own estimates in a...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: However, the answer is not to hand it over to multinational corporations, which will do precisely as I have outlined whenever it makes commercial sense. The responsible thing to do would be to place production in public ownership and leave the vast majority in the ground. On the detail of the amendment, I do not accept the notion that applying an increased taxation rate on oil and gas...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Oh dear.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: They are waiting for the price to go up.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is the company's figure. We did not make it up.