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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Is it the plan for PTSB to be fully back in private ownership in 2017?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: He has indicated that PTSB is heading back to full private ownership and that getting rid of the contingency capital notes is a part of that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will make the supposition that by the time the deferred tax asset begins to be used and PTSB does not pay any corporation tax for 25 years, PTSB will be in private hands. Does it strike the representatives as somewhat obscene that after a massive loss by PTSB and a subsequent massive bailout by the State - the taxpayer - that then counts as an asset and, as a result of those losses, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Obviously people work within the rules. The rules were changed in the last budget by the Minister for Finance, so that where banks that had been bailed out could previously only use up half of the deferred tax excesses on a yearly basis, they now get the full benefit on a yearly basis. Did PTSB make any representations for that change in the code to take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will move on to another issue. So far as I understand it, contingency capital notes are somewhere between debt and equity. In effect, the Government had €400 million worth of contingency capital notes, and they have been bought back by PTSB through the selling of shares to raise money. From the point of view of the State, from the representatives' analysis, would it not have been...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I asked a very simple question.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: It was about the rate of payment. The Taoiseach’s answer is to go and ask Irish Water as if it has nothing to do with the Government. The Taoiseach was not shy in boasting about puffed-up and bloated Irish Water registration figures where the same people were responsible for them.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is a bit like “Blue Peter”. Earlier, we prepared in advance and asked Irish Water what the levels of payment were. It said it would not give us those figures as it regards the levels of payment and the number of people who have paid now to be statistically insignificant. That means 500,000 bills and 500,000 people are somehow statistically insignificant. Opinion polls are...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach not know what the rate of payments is? Has Irish Water not informed him? Will he find that information and give it to the House? Will the Taoiseach confirm that the legislation will require court cases? Will he allay the scaremongering in which he has been deliberately engaged, suggesting that Irish Water will be able to take them? We have had court cases before...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach give us the figures? Will he confirm that he is talking about court cases rather than direct deductions, in other words, that Irish Water will not be able to directly deduct? Is he seriously considering any court cases in advance of the general election? If so, does he have clear prospects lined up?

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: When we asked Irish Water, it said it would not give us the information.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: Irish Water has issued almost 1 million bills, 592,000 of which have passed their pay-by dates. How many water bills have been paid? What is the rate of payment and non-payment? I suspect there is much more non-payment than the Government hoped. Otherwise, the Taoiseach would be shouting from the roof-tops that people were accepting the charges and we would not be faced with the bogeyman...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Appeals Tribunal (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional resources will be required to reduce current waiting times for Employment Appeals Tribunal hearings from the current average of over a year to three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18418/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (13 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is in favour of trade union representatives at the Cadbury-Mondelez plant in Coolock in Dublin 5 having full access to the accounts of the company, and having independent expertise, in order that the company's cost reduction efforts can be examined fully, and alternatives can be formulated by the trade unions; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: I wish to refer to the points made by Deputies Boyd Barrett and Martin regarding the case of Ibrahim Halawa. Will the Taoiseah indicate whether the human rights situation in Egypt has been discussed at European Council since December 2014? Have the mass trials that are ongoing been discussed? A few weeks ago people were sentenced to death for participating in a protest and last week...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Taoiseach if the situation in Egypt with regards to human rights was discussed at any meetings of the European Council since December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15209/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy (12 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps his Department will take to abolish the pension levy on public sector workers; and if he will discuss this with public sector workers' unions. [18241/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (12 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the reversal of pay cuts and an increase in pay will be discussed with the relevant trade unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18242/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 381. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 30 April 2015, the measures he is in favour of, in relation to the Common Security and Defence Policy approach to the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean; the measures he is opposed to; and if there will be any involvement from the Defence Forces. [18173/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Security and Defence Policy (12 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 517. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 30 April 2015, the measures he is in favour of in the Common Security and Defence Policy approach to the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean; the measures he is opposed to; and if there will be any involvement from any Irish law enforcement agencies. [18174/15]