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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is okay. It is possible to make an educated guess. Obviously, we see the moratorium on recruitment. That is the major implication facing us. There are others as well, but I take it that is not within the remit of Professor McMahon to answer that question. It is important to state that we do not have a national spending rule; we have a Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil spending rule....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Transparency is a key thing here. We have a responsibility as well as the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to look at this. Every year on budget day we get the 250-page expenditure report. Social Justice Ireland has previously raised the issue of how the information is presented there. In many ways it is a political document. For example, there is a list of measures and costs that have...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it designed to not find the real information? I know Professor McMahon cannot really say that either. Why can you not compare year on year? Why is it less transparent?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: And all the different aspects. I mean the way it is presented.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly, yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what I mean.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Do other countries do it the same way? Do they have a better system in terms of follow through year on year?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not just that. Did the fiscal councils offer an explanation for why there is a trend in other countries as well of having budget obscurity or less transparent budgets?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: How do the fiscal councils suggest that we tackle that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council calling on the Government to stop categorising areas of expenditure such as temporary, non-core and windfall?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council had discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on the classification of core, non-core and windfall capitals?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Did the council meet the Department?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Professor McMahon referred to expenditure on health and that we are lower than the EU median in what we spent on health.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That was our health infrastructure.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: When we measure health spend part of the problem, no more than when we compare year-on-year, is that we look at the spend on health in other European countries and when we look here we are including private healthcare spend. Is it any wonder people are confused by what exactly one has spent? Is it possible to get a spend figure for public healthcare?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Honohan for his statement and for the questions he asked, which will be usefully put to the Central Bank. What type of reform to consumer protection law is necessary to protect consumers in the light of the new credit services directive? Some 80,000 people are now paying up to 10% to vulture funds on their primary dwellings. Some 15% of home loans are already in that space....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Once the directive is transposed, will it provide for the outsourcing of debt collection and enforcement of security that could involve eviction proceedings and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: We are speaking about people's homes. When people have paid off their mortgages and they want to get their deeds back, where do they get the deeds from?