Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Mairead FarrellMairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I can Google search that. I thank Mr. McGann for that because I was not sure about what is categorised as a windfall and what is not. We hear the Department and we hear what the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, says every time it comes in here, so members of this committee are aware of the over-reliance on corporation tax receipts.

My following question is for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform officials. One of the things that comes up a lot at the moment is the issue of having capital carryover. There is a massive issue with housing targets and there can be delays to other infrastructure. We know a lot of it is to do with construction sector capacity. In 2018, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform established the construction sector group that comprised multiple Departments, State bodies and construction sector industry partners and participants. Several important documents have been published on how we could transition to modern methods of construction. I also sit on the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, and today we had the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, before us and we touched on modern methods of construction in terms of productivity, turnaround time and environmental performance. It seems to me the progress in that has been a bit slow. Is there anything being done to speed that up? If that is not something somebody here can cover, that is no problem and I can move on to my next question.

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