Results 11,621-11,640 of 11,968 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (5 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the reduction of the age of consent for blood donations to 16 or 17 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5252/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (5 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for an information campaign on blood donation among secondary school students in order to increase awareness and support for blood donations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5253/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Renewals (5 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding facilitating persons who are ordinarily resident in the State, but are unable to renew their driving licence due to being outside the State for an extended period, by renewing driving licences with more than three months left to expire and allowing the licence to be renewed by correspondence or any other means. [5223/15]

Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: The 19th century American journalist Ambrose Bierce described debt as an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver. If he had been writing in contemporary Ireland, he could have added a special mention for the banker, the property speculator, the big building firms and big businesses which have forced tens of thousands of households into poverty to pay their boom-time...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: Why does the Minister think that Goldman Sachs has agreed to this on a pro bonobasis similar to four other groups on the panel he mentioned? Was it simply because they are nice, kind people and they want to help us out bearing in mind that an article in Rolling Stoneaccurately described them as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity relentlessly jamming its blood funnel...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is naive or disingenuous to consider that Goldman Sachs staff are just interested in the high visibility work and that it does not enter their minds that future clients will say Goldman Sachs saw the inside of AIB and that will encourage them to go to the company rather than another firm. I refer to another aspect of this. Is this an admission that the Minister is giving up on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the appointment of a banking firm (details supplied) as advisers on the sale of the State's share in AIB; his views on the matter of the sale of the State's stakeholding in the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4709/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister for Finance to report on the appointment of Goldman Sachs as advisers on the sale of State's share in AIB, and to make a statement on why Goldman Sachs was chosen and on his views of the sale of shares in the banks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the matter of a proposed European debt conference in the view of the recent Greek parliamentary election. [4708/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: This is also to ask the Minister his views on the question of a European debt conference. In particular I ask whether there has been a change of position here from the point of view of the Government. Were the remarks about broad support from the Minister for Finance to the idea of a debt conference wrongly ascribed to him? Was the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: If the Minister has been following Syriza and the Greek finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, as closely as he proclaimed in answer to Deputy Doherty, he will know there is no proposal from Syriza for any taxpayers in Ireland, Spain or anywhere else to take the hit. Its proposal, contained in an academic paper, is for the debt of all indebted countries to be written down to 50% of GDP, with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Debt Restructuring (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: I was not referring to a reduction in interest rates but rather a reduction in the principal, with the reduction in the total amount of debt to 50% of GDP as per the Syriza proposal. This is not a question about the Greeks seeking a "Greek ask" and we, the Irish as creditors, all of a sudden seeing how we would react to it. It is a question of whether an ask can be made by the 99%, the mass...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost each year of tax exemptions for real estate investment trusts; and if he will report on the impact of REITs on the housing market. [4697/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Council Meetings (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the most recent ECOFIN meeting. [4693/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Rate (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the level of mortgage arrears and on the increased rate of repossessions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4694/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance the consultations he or his Department has had with AIB management concerning the recently announced intention to outsource jobs and other industrial relations issues notably reform of the pension scheme and upcoming pay discussions; his views on the industrial relations climate in the AIB group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4696/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (4 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the failure of AIB to honour an agreement on pensions with EBS staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4695/15]

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: No, it was not.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: Did he not listen to the radio last week?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the sale of Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4360/15]