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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the World Health Organization report on obesity levels, the measures he is introducing to deal with this public health problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19121/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Claims (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the figures from the State Claims Agency indicating a higher number of claims against maternity hospitals outside of Dublin than in Dublin, over the past three years; if he has taken any measures to investigate this; and if he will report on discussions he has had regarding this matter with hospital management, the Health Service Executive and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Switzerland on 6 and 7 May 2015. [19119/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UK Referendum on EU Membership (14 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the issue of a referendum in the United Kingdom on European Union membership; if he will report on any discussions with European Union counterparts on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19120/15]

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 be brief. My first question relates to deferred tax assets. Can the Permanent TSB deputation tell me how much or what asset is on the balance sheet of deferred tax?

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

Paul Murphy: When is it expected that Permanent TSB will be able to begin to utilise that through having profits?

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

Paul Murphy: When is the bank's expected return to profitability, whereby the bank can at least begin to get the benefit of not paying corporation tax?

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

Paul Murphy: The bank anticipates returning to profitability in 2017 and then beginning to utilise the deferred tax assets over a period of 25 years.

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...