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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in the Workplace (9 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the number of members of staff in the County Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board who have made complaints of bullying and-or harassment against other members of staff and the number of these complainees who have been transferred to another section of the CDDETB following their complaint. [46784/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (9 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form with respect of each of the relevant local authorities, the date on which domestic refuse charges were introduced; the date on which competition was introduced; and the date on which the service was fully privatised. [47064/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (9 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form with respect of each of the relevant local authorities, the amount each local authority charged when domestic refuse charges were first introduced; the dates and amounts of subsequent increases in the charges; and the current charges for domestic refuse collection. [47065/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (9 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 427. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average rents paid by local authorities on behalf of tenants of housing associations, as compared to the average rents paid by local authorities to for-profit private landlords, that is, through schemes such as the housing assistance payment and rental accommodation scheme. [47066/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: This is not going to work. The Bill will not save water charges, the Labour Party or the Government. Whether the Minister knows it, what has happened in the past few months is more significant even than 100,000 people coming out onto the streets on 11 October. It is more significant than up to 200,000 people coming out three weeks later. It is even more significant than the hundreds of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I definitely see the argument for regulating the servicers, but why not do both? Who would lose if SPVs were regulated? To the extent that they engage in any of these activities, they would be subject to the regulations. If they do not engage in these activities, the regulations would not arise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: The Department could have done it the other way around and regulated certain activities of owners and servicers. A passive SPV will not break the code of conduct. It will not harass people itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: Is it not an anomaly that a person with a loan with a banking institution that outsources credit servicing can, if the owning institution is pre-existing, for example, Bank of Ireland, take a case against it but in another situation might have to pursue the servicer? It is potentially confusing for people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: There could be the further development of this approach, including by traditional financial institutions. For example, someone with a loan with AIB might have little interaction with the bank and instead deal with the servicer. Is it the case that the consumer should still go after AIB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: If what the witnesses are saying is correct and the servicer is key, it is an argument to redo all of this. A pre-existing institution like AIB might head in that direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: My final question is on a somewhat separate matter. Many of us believe that the code of conduct is inadequate and not rigorously enforced. This legislation brings others under the Central Bank's code of conduct, which is for the Central Bank to enforce. In theory, the Dáil could give a legislative basis to something equivalent to the code of conduct. Nothing in how the Central Bank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I am sure it does, but it could write a stricter code of conduct or what looked like a code of conduct but was actually legislation, thereby making it a crime not to do something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I want to explore the issue of servicing ownership and the reason for the move from one to the other. The original intention was to go for a model of ownership with some exclusions of securitisation special purchase vehicles, SSPVs. The Department changed that on the basis of consultation with stakeholders. I understand the reason is to regulate servicers. That makes sense, but why not do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: Yes, and it is fair to say that this is effectively what the SPVs lobbied for. I am not implying anything untoward but their basic representation is that it would make more sense to have a model along the lines of that in Britain of servicing administrators, etc., and the witnesses were convinced by that argument.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I do not deny that homelessness is a complex and complicated issue, but the Government should not be allowed hide behind that. Much of the homelessness facing us right now is not that complicated. According to Peter McVerry, a majority of those who are homeless currently - this is substantiated by my empirical experience - are homeless simply because rents have risen out of control and they...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I also express my condolences to the family of Jonathan Corrie, my solidarity with all of those who face the human tragedy of homelessness and my support for those who are currently holding a vigil to highlight this issue. There has been an explosion in homelessness. There has always been homelessness in our society, but it has multiplied massively over the past year. Focus Ireland said it...

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: Is that a commitment?

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: That is outrageous discrimination against local authority tenants. The Minister stated that they could have money stolen from them to pay a tax they do not want to pay, a tax that they are boycotting, together, potentially, with the majority of the population. The Minister has stated, however, that councils should increase their rent to take the money for this charge off them. Will he...

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I am happy to explain how this constitutes discrimination. Those who own their own homes will not have money taken off them. Those renting privately may have it taken from their deposit, but that remains to be seen. However, the Minister has stated that council tenants will have their rents increased to take unpaid water charges from them. That amounts to discrimination against those who...