Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

806. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether it is appropriate for the European Commission to progress and provisionally apply the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, CETA, prior to its ratification by member state parliaments in view of a comment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21191/16]

EU Agreements

Paul Murphy

159. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the European Union-Swiss bilateral negotiations; if he supports the Commission's suspension of research grants to Swiss universities and the suspension of the Erasmus student exchange programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20212/16]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

36. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will introduce changes to end the two tier system of pay and conditions in the Public Service that is particularly badly felt for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19799/16]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

53. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider a repeal of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation in view of the Government's claims regarding economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19800/16]

EU Issues

Paul Murphy

4. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on contact he has had with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, since the referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. [18069/16]

Military Aircraft

Paul Murphy

28. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any contact he has had with the US Government in regard to its military foreign policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19479/16]

Human Rights

Paul Murphy

29. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any contact he or his Department has had with the Brazilian Government since the impeachment of that country's president; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19478/16]

Official Engagements

Paul Murphy

35. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any recent contact he has had with the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19476/16]

Human Rights

Paul Murphy

49. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made contact with the Mexican Government concerning the reported state repression of a strike by school teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19480/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

665. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the European Commission will present a proposal to the Council of Ministers asking the Council to vote to give the Commission the authority to sign-off on the final text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the Canadian government (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19595/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

666. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Government gets access to the wording of the proposal to conclude the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; if she will make public the Commission’s proposal prior to the Council of Ministers' vote on the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19596/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

667. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will publish the position as to provisionally applying the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19597/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

668. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware that Article 29.5.2 of the Constitution places an imperative on the State to have any international agreement involving a charge upon public funds to be approved by Dáil Éireann and that as such, should the Council of Ministers vote by a qualified majority vote to approve the signing and provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and considering the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism of the agreement is designed specifically to allow for a charge upon public funds, this would be in breach of the Constitution, whereby Ireland could be the subject of settlement cases which lead to a charge upon public funds prior to Dáil Éireann approving the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19598/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

669. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she can assert that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the investor state dispute settlement will not be enforced upon Ireland prior to Dáil Éirean approving the agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19599/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

670. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the necessity test being used to inform the Government position on the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19600/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

671. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19601/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

672. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and why she does not invoke Article 218.11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and ask the European Court of Justice to deliver a legal ruling as to whether or not the settlement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19602/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

673. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty solutions with the investor-state dispute settlement promote discrimination based on nationality, but in a post-Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape allowing Canadian businesses or European Union businesses with a Canadian owner to have privileged access to a legal remedy, namely the settlement, somehow does not allow for discrimination based on nationality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19603/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

674. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she intends to protect Irish citizens from the EU Commission’s proposal to provisionally apply the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement prior to a definitive legal ruling as to the distribution of competences relating to new proposals to subject the European Union to an investor-state dispute settlement under the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19604/16]

Labour Activation Measures

Paul Murphy

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has consulted with any organisations in regard to the creation of a new labour activation measure to replace JobBridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/16]