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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: They cannot be named.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: No, that is in terms of the loan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I am just conscious of time and Ms Kinney wants to come in. Ms Ní Bhrian can finish what she saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I will go on to my own questions. When you are the last speaker a lot of stuff has already been raised and there are also things that come up as part of the conversation. One of the things that really stood out to me was the mobilising of private capital that Ms Ní Bhriain mentioned earlier. She referred to the €150 billion that is being borrowed. That is borrowed money and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That will be very interesting when it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Under what article? I am conscious of our legal advice. Ms Ní Bhriain is talking about the other aspect of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Article 41.2

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We had a huge amount of different submissions during the course of our call for submissions on these particular COM proposals. One of them was from the Centre of Full Employment and Equity. It focused on the fact that this debt financing model is unfit for purpose. It literally said member states will be forced into fiscal austerity should the debt obligations incurred under the SAFE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is interesting because often when we have discussions on this, there is talk about financial risk. We have had ISIF representatives before this committee in relation to investing in, say, companies that are in occupied territories and things like that. Fundamentally, it always comes back to what the financial risk is. It always comes down to the question of whether the debt will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Of course. Considering that this is the finance committee and because we are constantly told financial risk is a reason things cannot be done, it is interesting that, in this case, things are being done while there is a financial risk. I have a question for Ms Kinney. When Senator Higgins was out of the room, I mentioned how a good bit of work was done previously on fiscal rules by a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas le Ms Kinney. I will allow for a very brief second round because I am conscious-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We might wrap up on that if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I call Ms Ní Bhriain briefly because we are running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Iontach. Gabhaim buíochas libh agus le Ms Kinney as well. I thank Ms Kinney for calling in to us. That concludes the joint committee's business in public session for today. The committee stands adjourned until we meet again on Wednesday, 1 October, when the committee will meet in private session at 2.30 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, preventative spending. I do not know whether Ms Kinney wants to comment on that. Earlier, she mentioned just transition funding being reallocated for the expenditure under discussion. In the last term of the EU Parliament, it was said the focus was on climate. Obviously, Ms Kinney would know better that me whether that was the case. The focus was always said to be on the climate....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the building of a new school at a location (details supplied); when it will go to tender in view of the fact it was granted planning permission on 8 May 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plan and the consideration that has been given to deliver a secondary school in Moycullen County Galway given its increase in population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans being considered to deliver a secondary school at a location (details supplied) in view of the increase in population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application dated 11 August 2025 for relocation due to medical needs (details supplied) [50565/25]