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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: Page 220 of the report states that assuming a sustainable return on equity, it will take in excess of 20 years for the deferred tax asset to be utilised. Does this mean AIB will not pay any corporation tax for 20 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: Does it not strike Mr. Bourke as obscene that the banks, and it is not just AIB which at least is in State ownership, made huge losses and those losses are now counted as assets on the balance sheet for which the State will pay again through not receiving corporation tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: If AIB is privatised in one or two years time, the fact it made losses previously will mean it will not pay corporation tax for an extended period. Is it also the case that prior to budget 2014, the bank could only use half of it each year and write-down half of the profits? It paid some corporation tax each year before the budget changes in 2014.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I am making a more general point which applies to all the banks, which includes those banks which are overwhelmingly privatised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: With regard to privatisation, is it the case that AIB is in effect being fattened up and prepared for privatisation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: How does Mr. Duffy explain the increase in the number of write-downs and the amount of write-down? In 2013 it was €1 billion and in 2014, when privatisation was being prepared for, it was €4.5 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: With regard to privatisation, we know that Goldman Sachs is advising for free, out of the goodness of its heart. How is the process going with regard to Goldman Sachs co-operating with AIB and looking at the assets and liabilities? Do guarantees exist that it does not receive information that would be profitable to it in other circumstances such as advising clients and everything else?

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government apply pressure on Mondelez to ensure that workers get all of the information and resources they are looking for from the point of view of putting forward an alternative plan? It seems to me that the problem is contained within the Minister of State's response in that there appears to be an acceptance that jobs will be lost. The inter-agency group set up by the Minister,...

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: The request from myself and other Deputies for this Topical Issue debate was prompted by a briefing given by shop stewards from Cadbury's Coolock plant last Friday, which was attended by local representatives, including my colleague, Councillor Michael O'Brien. Contrary to the attitude expressed by the Minister at the meeting he had with Deputies and the attitude I presume will be expressed...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on reform of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service from 51 individual companies to six companies; her views on maintaining a strong volunteer and community input into service at a local level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15919/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will have a consultation process with the individual Money Advice and Budgeting Service companies prior to implementing any changes to the structure of the service. [15920/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she expects a report from the Citizens Information Board on the reform of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service. [15921/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on having a debate in Dáil Éireann on the restructuring of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service; if there are significant reforms in their structures proposed by the Citizens Information Board. [15922/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (22 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 651 of 15 April 2015 and 742 of 24 March 2015, the procedures around determining if someone applying for a passport has reduced capacity; if the view of a medical professional is required in making this determination; if it is on the basis of other information, or on the opinion of a Garda or other...

Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is morally wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will also quote President Obama, who said "What happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it's no longer endemic or sanctioned by law and custom". It is endemic. A report by the US Department of Justice found a pattern of civil rights violations by the Ferguson police department and points to shocking statistics. Some 90% of people who received a citation in Ferguson were African...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: There is systematic racism in the US, and this is reflected in the actions of the police, which are seen in the statistics in black and white. I also raise the treatment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a celebrated prisoner and former Black Panther who was the victim of a racist frame-up, has been on death row since 1982 and, in recent weeks, has faced potential execution through medical neglect.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the alleged human rights abuse of African-Americans in the United States of America by police authorities; if he raised the matter with the ambassador of the United States of America to Ireland; if the embassy has raised this matter with the authorities in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: What is the Minister's view of the human rights abuses of African-Americans in the US, in particular, a number of killings of African-Americans, including the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and others by police authorities, and the killings of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and others? Those killings have given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I urge the Minister and the Government to go with the option of the Taoiseach intervening. In five days time Ibrahim could be sentenced to death. Yesterday, 22 people were sentenced to death for participation in a protest. There is no chance of him receiving justice in what is a mass trial. The Minister recognised the reality that the Egyptian authorities will decide, but the nature of...