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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (5 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the recognition of the Traveller community as an ethnic minority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38838/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Tax Yield (5 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the anticipated additional revenue that his Department estimates will arise from the introduction of the petroleum production tax, as outlined in the Finance Bill 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38878/15]

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I want to take up where Deputy Tom Fleming finished, which is the notion that this Social Welfare Bill is part of the fifth regressive budget in a row. It takes some doing by the Labour Party to stand over five budgets throughout the course of a crisis that managed to increase the gap between rich and poor and, in reality, increase the gap between the rich and the rest and transfer wealth to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Let me tell the Minister about some reality. In my constituency a number of places in a vocational training opportunities scheme, VTOS, which is a further education scheme, were cut and instead we have extensive use of the Gateway scheme whereby hundreds of peoples have been working for €1 for 20 hours a week for almost two years. They are involved in protests against the scheme,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the implementation of the Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37226/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister to report on the Action Plan for Jobs. Does he agree that it is not an action plan for decent jobs or work but instead a plan for driving down working conditions, normalising people working for free, driving an agenda of tax cuts for big business and increasing corporate welfare?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Minister's use of the phrase "improving the business environment" gives the game away. The approach of the Fine Gael Party, to which the Labour Party has unfortunately acquiesced, is based on the idea that the State cannot create jobs but can only create the environment in which big business can create them. To achieve this end, businesses must be incentivised. This approach lies at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the negotiations between the European Union and the United States of America on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37225/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister to report on the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, between the EU and the USA, particularly in light of the large and unprecedented protest in Berlin, involving 250,000 people, which reflects the growing understanding that, as John Hilary put it, "TTIP is correctly understood not as a negotiation between two competing trading partners...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Minister's answer reflects the soporific strategy of the European establishment, which is to refer to large numbers of potential growth that are not based on reality and then to tell us not to worry because none of the concerns that people have will come to pass. Let us consider the question of the environment. In January, we had a concrete promise from the EU to safeguard green laws,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I simply do not believe, nor do those watching us, that the right to profit will not take precedence over the right to regulate. The big winners will be large corporations and the losers will be small businesses, consumers, working people and the environment. In the draft text the definition of "expropriation" is being expanded dramatically. We know have terms like "measures...

Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Villiers report brings into the open what most people already know, namely, that all the main paramilitary organisations which operated during the Troubles still exist. The report was commissioned in the aftermath of the killing of Kevin McGuigan in east Belfast on 13 August and of Jock Davison in the markets in June. The Anti Austerity Alliance and the Socialist Party condemn both...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Jobs Data (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 153. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs created in the past three years; and the number that were part-time contracts and full-time contracts. [37221/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Jobs Data (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 154. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs created in the past year by Irish-based companies; and by multi-national based companies, [37222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if it is permitted to insist that Community Employment Scheme workers work on Sundays against their will; and if not, the recourse these workers have to challenge such instructions received from their employer. [37650/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures that will be taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 receives a higher level of rent supplement to prevent the family from becoming homeless. [37651/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to alter legislation, as necessary, to permit persons (details supplied), who have surrendered their homes to the banks and are now compelled to live in private rented accommodation, to receive rent supplement. [37910/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 299. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected payment schedules for future housing projects funded by the National Asset Management Agency; and his views on claims that there are administrative blockages in the agency, which appear to be hindering the release of funds to contractors and design professionals for works carried out in certain projects to date. [37702/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that in many projects funded by the National Asset Management Agency design works are required to be completed prior to any funds being paid to design firms; and the average time projected for payments to project design professionals for work to be undertaken on future agency housing schemes. [37703/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is an inspectorate for refuges for those persons escaping domestic violence; if this inspectorate examines the standards of the buildings used, cleanliness and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37649/15]