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Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: Greece is in a state of humanitarian and economic catastrophe. It is in that state because of the austerity imposed by the troika and implemented by New Democracy and PASOK. Wages have fallen by 37%, public sector employment by over 25% and pensions by almost 50%. The result is an explosion of homelessness, unemployment, suicide, poverty and misery for the Greek people, and an economy that...

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: What did the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, say about this noose yesterday? He lined up with the German Minister for Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, and said, "Tighten the noose."

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: He said, "Tighten the noose. Don't give them any more money. Demand their humiliation." Is that the Government position? He stabbed the Greek people in the chest and, in so doing, he stabbed the Irish people in the back. Would the Taoiseach agree that he and his Government are putting their own party interests - the same party as Merkel, as Juncker, as Samaras, as Rajoy - ahead of the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is not because it is not in the interest of people in this country, but because it would not be in the interest of his party, whereas we, on the contrary - the 99% in this country - share the same interest as the 99% in Greece in debt write-down and an end to austerity.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to publish the details of the number of tax opinions provided by the Revenue Commissioners, including the amount provided to multinational corporations and those based outside the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Plans (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reported plans by his Department to make €200 million available to property developers from the National Pension Reserve Fund. [24575/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if any officials from his Department accompanied the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on his recent visit to Switzerland. [24572/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of certificates for non-deduction of withholding tax issued for each of the past five years for accounts in the following states: the Netherlands Antilles, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Switzerland. [24573/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commissions of Investigation (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance if he favours an extension to the commission of investigation into the transactions of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to other banks in State ownership, or where the State is a major shareholder, namely, the National Asset Management Agency, Allied Irish Banks, Permanent TSB and Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24744/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of works completed at St. Enda's Park in Rathfarnham in Dublin 16 by the Office of Public Works, in the past five years; if he will provide a list of agreed future works and the schedule for agreed future works by the Office of Public Works. [24587/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Dogs (23 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 586. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of expert opinion reported in the press (details supplied) that points to shortcomings of breed specific legislation concerning the control of dogs, as well as potential legal difficulties in identifying dog breeds, if he will consider a review of legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24662/15]

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome that the Government is not opposing this Bill. That demonstrates the change that has taken place in these Houses. Three years ago, the Government voted down a Bill in the Seanad that was weaker and less far reaching. This change has come from below rather than above, through movements of tens of thousands of people who campaigned for an end to homophobia, discrimination and...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: Here again we have a ritualised endorsement and extension of a serious attack on basic civil liberties. This is particularly serious at a time when the reality of the actions of the State and how it defends the interests of the elites at the expense of the majority have become clear. Serious attacks on people's democratic right to protest have taken place over the course of the past half...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the planned outsourcing of the application and development management section of the information technology department in Allied Irish Banks; his views regarding the outsourcing of a key sector of the Department that deals with core functions of the bank's operations; if a risk assessment has been carried out on the outsourcing to the bank's...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of tax opinions issued by the Revenue Commissioners each year for the past five years; if he will provide a breakdown of the number provided to persons, small and medium enterprises, larger enterprises, and to companies based outside the jurisdiction. [24157/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tax opinions issued in the past five years, in tabular form, by type of transactions and-or concerns, including the numbers that relate to transfer-pricing arrangements, and with cross-Border implications. [24158/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests for tax opinions that have been refused by the Revenue Commissioners in the past five years, on the basis that the seeking of the opinion was suspected to be part of an arrangement designed to avoid tax or a duty. [24159/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the European Commission's preliminary finding that in several instances the methods for determining profit allocation between a company's subsidiaries (details supplied) here do not appear to comply with the arm's length principle for establishing transfer prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24160/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to publish the criteria used by the Revenue Commissioners to determine an advance pricing arrangement. [24161/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Taxpayer Confidentiality (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the support of the European Commission for the publication of tax rulings, his plans to publish, while taking measures to protect the appropriate privacy of persons and corporations, the details of tax opinions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24162/15]