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Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...and utterly cynical. The Tánaiste put forward various spurious legal arguments against the Bill. However, several newspapers today reported him as stating that the Israeli ambassador may leave Ireland if Ministers vote for the Bill, which belies the real story, namely, the pressure being put on the Government by the Israeli state. If the words of solidarity that Deputies Finian...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...Fianna Fáil on housing is clear from this budget. They remain completely wedded to the idea of incentivising the private market to provide housing through a massive transfer of wealth to private landlords through HAP and an additional €120 million provided for in this budget. This is the equivalent of 700 public homes on public land every single year. The Government likes to...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...which is to be delivered by the free market. That ideology which the Minister does not acknowledge coincides happily with the interests of those he represents. It coincides with the interests of landlords who are now experiencing the highest profits in the entire European Union, as well as with the interests of developers. That is how ideology works, even if one chooses not to...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...to hide that reality. Housing sums this up. Plan after plan has been unveiled multiple times and to much fanfare. Each one has rested upon the idea of incentivising private developers or landlords to provide housing by funnelling more money in their direction and resolutely refuses to break with neoliberal ideology by investing in building public homes on public land, which has had the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (26 Apr 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...criticisms not necessarily in order for those things to happen and for the process to be expanded to cover the car and other industries at an OECD level but as a way of kicking it to Never-never land, where it will simply never happen. The Government hides behind the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process. It deliberately opted out of article 12 of the BEPS process and it goes...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...and Homeless Coalition protest on Saturday, 7 April at 2 p.m. in Parnell Square. The Government has no strategy that can produce affordable housing on a meaningful scale. It adds more pro-landlord policies based on the same failed market-based ideology. They will not work and the Minister knows that but his ideology, combined with his party's close relationship with developers and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...processing and biometrics combined with big data analysis, open source intelligence and crowd sourcing. It is an Israeli armaments company. It is used against the Palestinians, people who have their land occupied. The same applies in different systems, for Israeli aerospace systems, for Technion. This is a very simple question. Does the Commissioner agree that no EU money, money that...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the affordable purchase scheme in order to use publicly owned land solely for social and affordable housing will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4574/18]

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...favour of having a European army. PESCO represents a major step towards achieving that goal and, scandalously, the Government has tried and is still trying under the cover of darkness to have Ireland participate in such a European army, making even more of a mockery of our supposed neutrality, considering the use of Shannon Airport. The Government came back to state there was nothing to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the conveyancing process in the transfer of the land for a school (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52004/17]

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...that there is a dead weight and a bunch of speculators who will not have to pay tax that they otherwise would have paid but takes the attitude we can do nothing about it if we want to release land onto the markets in order that homes can be built on it. However, if the Government had that money, it could use it to build homes directly. That would be a far more direct way of doing it...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...Bill be now read a Second Time." "We have a low level of homelessness compared to our peer countries", according to our Taoiseach. That has no factual basis whatsoever. "It is damaging to Ireland's international reputation that our social response to the housing crisis is being portrayed as dysfunctional", according to Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Community and...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...proclaims the need to abolish the exploitation of men by men and the division of the people into classes and to suppress exploiters, establish a socialist society and achieve the victory of socialism in all lands. Unfortunately, Fianna Fáil did not draw its inspiration for this Bill from that constitution, which was a by-product of a revolution of working people who overthrew the...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...€50 billion in 2010 to €100 billion now. It is a republic of inequality where pre-tax corporate profits doubled from €75 billion in 2011 to €150 billion in 2015. It is a society in which a quarter of Ireland's population - 1.2 million people - are experiencing poverty or social exclusion. That figure increased from 15% in ten years. Some 308,000 of those...

UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (26 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...there must be clarity on what the European Union is and on the European Union British people voted to leave. One would get the impression from many of the discussions in this Chamber that it is a land of milk and honey, peace, prosperity, democracy, human rights and so forth. That is very far from the truth. The European Union is an undemocratic land of authoritarian neoliberalism, war,...

Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (21 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...? We expect an explanation, and if we do not get an adequate explanation at that stage, we need to have a response to that, be it public statements or discussions with the Israeli ambassador in Ireland. I again welcome the fact the Government does not accept the proposition that advocacy as boycott is equivalent to support for violence. That is very important in a context where,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...lines which I think probably relate to both Mr. Frank Daly and Mr. Brendan McDonagh. One is on the role of NAMA as an enabler of vulture funds, facilitating their control of large swathes of land and their lack of building on large swathes of land, thereby contributing to the housing crisis that we have, as well as their treatment of tenants. The second question is on the massive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...of the State. Does Mr. McDonagh not accept that there are at least grounds to make an argument there that NAMA could have imposed some conditions as opposed to just selling off all this land and loans to vulture funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...because they will only hold on to it for a short period of time and it will come back to someone in any event. Does Mr. McDonagh not accept that it is a contributing factor to the hoarding of land and absence of development that is taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (13 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: I agree with that. We must incentivise it in some way or force the building on homes on land or whatever. On behalf of NAMA, the witness is effectively saying it is none of his business, which is to make money for NAMA as quickly as possible. There are two points in that regard. Does the witness not accept that in selling multi-billion euro portfolios, it tilts towards what the witness...