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Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...decent standard of living and to make poverty in this country history. The Government has the money to do all of this. It is awash with cash. There is a €65 billion surplus. It is fighting, using public money, to say that Apple should keep at almost €14 billion in taxes that should be owed to us. Yet, it refuses to spend this money on improving people's lives and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...just close our eyes to the horrific treatment of hundreds of thousands of calves on a yearly basis and rise for the summer recess. The Taoiseach earlier seemed to suggest this is just about a few bad apples. That is the Government washing its hands of its responsibility for creating an industry in which, bluntly, the export of live calves can either be profitable or humane. Clearly, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...increase the numbers of beds. It could be used to fund a just and rapid transition to a zero carbon economy. Instead, the State and the Government is using public money to say this money should stay with Apple and it should stay on Apple's cash pile, which already sits at more than $200 billion. Does this not illustrate that the entire purpose of the economic policy of this Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: First, this is not a few bad apples in the construction industry when you are dealing with 50% to 80% of all apartments and duplexes built between 1991 and 2013. As it was happening in a widespread way, in terms of recouping the costs, is there not a case for a tax on the profits of the construction industry responsible for this problem? Second, if the Minister has time, will he expand...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...very significant evidence and confirmation of repeated collusion by the British state with loyalist paramilitaries in murdering people. The point has been made that this is far more than a few bad apples. It is or was clearly government policy. It was systematic, deadly, has been covered up and continues to be covered up, and those responsible continue to have impunity. It is worth...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ..., IPCC, which states that the growth model of capitalism is incompatible with avoiding climate catastrophe. We are talking about the supposedly green sectors of capitalism, including Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. The truth is what exists, supposedly, in the cloud has a massive physical footprint. There is massive water usage of between 500,000 and 5 million litres of water a day and...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...crime of organising a protest against gender-based violence during the pandemic. However, women looking for protection from abuse are ignored. This means we are not dealing with just a few bad apples here. This is systematic and despicable. What is exposed by this situation is, on the one hand, the unfortunate and horrific prevalence of gender-based violence within our society and, on...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...makes a political choice not to prioritise and not to open access to third level education in this way while it simultaneously claims not only that we can afford not to charge the big multinational corporations, such as Apple, basically any tax at all in this country, but that we have to do so. We can afford pay rises for Deputies and can afford extraordinarily high rates of pay for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apple Escrow Account (16 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...headline and actual corporation tax rates are the big corporations. The losers are those on trolleys and housing waiting lists and those who are going to pay the price for climate catastrophe. Apple continues to avail of extremely low tax rates using a new tax avoidance scheme known as the "green jersey". Will the Minister agree to stop the model of Ireland being a tax haven?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apple Escrow Account (16 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Apple tax ruling is being portrayed as some sort of victory for Ireland. It is a strange victory where we do not get the €14.3 billion currently sitting in an escrow account. That money is to be added on to Apple's massive cash pile and we cannot use it for housing provision, creating green jobs and avoiding climate catastrophe. I saw coverage of the Minister at a press...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apple Escrow Account (16 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that the grounds upon which the court found in favour of Ireland and Apple were very narrow? It did not find that Apple was not availing of a 0.0005% tax rate. It did not find that Ireland was not a tax haven. It simply found that the tax rulings which were available to Apple did not constitute state aid because they could have been available to other companies as...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The headlines read "Ireland wins appeal in €13 billion Apple tax case". It is some victory when one of the richest corporations in the world gets to hang on to €14.1 billion and add it to a cash pile of over $100 billion. That money is not available to tackle the problems that exist here, where one in four people is unemployed, 10,000 people are homeless and we need urgently...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: Other choices are available, outside the frame of reference of the Minister and Fine Gael, as to where resources could come from to enable us to do those things. They could come from the Apple tax and many other areas. I will raise a concrete question which illustrates a point about a potential post-coronavirus environment. The Acting Chairman, Deputy Lahart, mentioned Firhouse Educate...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...by Revenue to the rules governing tax exiles so that they are not discommoded by the corona virus crisis and are able to continue with their status. Will the Government drop its appeal to the Apple tax ruling and seek to access some or all of the €14.3 billion in the escrow account to use in the context of this crisis? Finally, I will repeat a question posed by Deputy Boyd...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (26 Mar 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...be done now by the Government to raise the revenue to deal with this crisis, rather than placing it on the shoulders of workers in the future. First, the Government must immediately drop its case for Apple to keep the €14.3 billion which is now sitting in an escrow account. We need that money now for tackling the crisis. Second, we need an emergency substantial levy on the wealth...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...how that money is used. Let us consider the €270 million paid before Christmas to the junior Anglo Irish Bank bondholders, which is more than enough to pay the nurses claim in full. Let us consider the €14.3 billion in the Apple tax account where the Government is spending money so that Apple can get it back. Let us consider the €29 billion held by the richest three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...to pay off junior Anglo Irish Bank bondholders, who were supposedly burned, to the same amount it would cost to pay the total nurses' claim. The Government obviously has no interest in getting the Apple tax money. The Government is making choices and those choices are not to pay public servants, nurses, etc.,what they deserve and need to survive and what most people feel they should be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: Take it from Apple.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...rulings were not accurate and not legally sound, is it the case that this would amount to illegal state aid, similar to how the European Commission has found that the tax ruling by Revenue with Apple amounted to that, whereby those who were engaging and benefitting on foot of bogus self-employment, were making a substantial saving, perhaps around 30%? Does the social welfare appeals...

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

Paul Murphy: .... In 2016, total profits before deductions were just under €160 billion. Total corporation tax paid was just over €7 billion, amounting to an effective rate of corporation tax, after deductions, of 4.5%. Some of the worst companies for using Ireland as a tax haven conduit are the big technology companies, such as Apple, Google and Facebook, but the other big participants...