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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Human Rights Issues (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 407. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on his recent trade mission to Bahrain; his views on the European Union's strategic framework on human rights, which advocates promotion of human rights in trade and investment; and the way human rights were dealt with in his recent visit to Bahrain. [21262/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on discussions with pharmaceutical companies regarding reducing the cost of drugs used in the health service. [21261/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 891. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, on 24 May 2015. [21263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans on building and opening a secondary school in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21232/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance with regard to fees that is available for a person entering third level for the first time who is on the back to education allowance, the course is a master's course and the person in question has not previously undertaken an undergraduate course. [21533/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 1069. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the interest rate charged by the Housing Finance Agency for local authority loans has remained at 2.75% since 2012, while in the same period the Euribor rate, on which the Housing Finance Agency is supposed to determine the interest rate it charges, has fallen dramatically, being less than 0.6% for the past...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Banking Sector Regulation (9 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 1099. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations to oblige banks which repossess properties that have sitting tenants to honour existing leases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17577/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I refer to some of the comments the Governor made to Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett on the power of the ECB. It is my considered opinion that in the time he has been on the governing council - I do not make a causal link - the power of the ECB has increased significantly in real terms. In terms of the role it has played in the crisis, this unelected institution has dictated policies to a range...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: That means that once a government was elected which insisted it would not go along with the troika agreement, the waiver was going to be withdrawn, although it took a certain amount of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: No, but it pushed the Greek banks into sole reliance on emergency liquidity assistance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: While I accept that they are, are they not being kept on a very short leash? The extensions given are minimal, with an upper limit of €200 million agreed to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: The ECB is the point man for the European authorities in terms of the threats to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is in a political space and the people who make up the governing council have a set of political and economic views. They may not all be exactly in line, but, broadly, there are dominant and less dominant members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I hope I would be surprised. It is not seen in terms of policy. If Greece is forced out of the euro, the most likely impetus will be the withdrawal of emergency liquidity assistance from the Greek banks, the collapse of the Greek banking system and the forcing of the Greek Government into a decision to print money, nationalise the banks, etc. It will, therefore, be the ECB's decision that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: There have been implicit threats from the ECB to the Greek Government since the election. With regard to the standard variable rate, there was quite an acknowledgement in Professor Honohan's presentation that, in layman's terms, there is a rip-off of consumers going on to make up for other difficulties the banks have. Is this a fair summation in layman's terms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is part of the process of preparing the banks for privatisation and future profitability by fattening up capital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: The part-privatisation of PTSB received relatively little publicity compared to Aer Lingus, although it is right that Aer Lingus is getting the publicity it is. One of the arguments with regard to PTSB was increased capitalisation, but is the bank any more capitalised when a form of State-owned capital is replaced by privately owned capital? The actual form in terms of contingency notes has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: What is preventing all of the benefit of quantitative easing from going to those who own finance capital? That is what has happened around the world. The vast benefit has not trickled down. Why will the same not happen in the European Union?

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Deputy Healy Rae is getting five minutes of my time so I will have ten minutes.

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is perfect. I may not take the full 15 minutes. The first point I wish to make is on the incredible method the Government has chosen to debate this extremely important issue. The so-called democratic revolution is now so covered with dust that no one could possibly see it. This is a most cynical attempt to rush through the full and complete privatisation of Aer Lingus. We had a...