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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]

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

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on providing the Revenue Commissioners with powers to tackle transfer pricing that artificially boosts the profits of the Irish subsidiaries of multinational corporations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24163/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the amount of the State funding to the Football Association of Ireland that is ring-fenced for junior leagues and on spending to develop the sport among young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24206/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the amount of the State funding to the Football Association of Ireland that is ring-fenced for the League of Ireland through prize money and grants to clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24207/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the conditions his Department puts on payments to the Football Association of Ireland and other sporting bodies when awarding grants from the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24209/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (17 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the amount of State funding to the Football Association of Ireland in each of the past seven years. [24210/15]

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I intend to share time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger, Thomas Pringle and Catherine Murphy. It is now three and a half weeks since the tremendous result in the marriage equality referendum, which was heralded as a social revolution by the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and others. More than 62% of those who cast a vote voted for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is good to see the Minister is convinced of the benefits of democracy and the right of governments to decide on fiscal policy, given his support for the fiscal treaty, the six-pack and the two-pack, which are all about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: No, but you do jail protestors because they go within 20 m of water meters being installed by the company of Denis O'Brien, a major donor to your party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: We do not need any lessons in democracy from you, I am afraid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will start with a question on Greece. I contend strongly that the negotiations from the point of view of the European institutions are not being carried out in a frame of mind consistent with negotiations between partners to achieve a mutually beneficial solution. They are being carried out to inflict humiliation on the Greek Government and the Greek people in order to send a message...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: It seems that the last paper from the Greek Government to the institutions was dismissed out of hand, despite the fact that it represented an attempt to sum up the negotiations and a compromise. In terms of the primary surplus, Syriza and the Greek Government have moved on a rise in value added tax, VAT, on postponing the rise in the minimum wage, collective bargaining, pensions and a whole...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Paul Murphy: To go further on the question of our interests, earlier the Minister said he was against debt write-downs. Is that just debt write-downs for Greece or is the Minister against them for Ireland, if they were to be offered, or if we were to get them if we asked for them, or is it debt write-downs only for tremendously rich private individuals paid for by the taxpayer and not for the country?...