Results 25,821-25,840 of 33,175 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Other Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What we are now hearing from Deputy Doherty is a change of view on the European Union. As already stated, I am meeting the Northern Ireland Minister for Finance tomorrow in recognition of the uncertainty that has been generated by the UK's decision to exit the European Union. I welcome hearing Deputy Pearse Doherty acknowledge the benefits of the EU after he and his party have spent decades...
- Other Questions: Government Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The additional capital expenditure that the Minister for Finance and myself announced is precisely in recognition of the additional investment needs our economy has. The figures we outlined in the summer economic statement were very clear. We indicated that €5 billion worth of additional funding would be made available for capital investment, which is €1 billion more than we...
- Other Questions: Government Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I have outlined to the Deputy that the percentage of our national income that is absorbed through capital investment is going to increase. It will increase because of the Government's decision that any additional resources that become available will go into capital investment. The Deputy makes a point regarding total Government expenditure as a percentage of national income and what will...
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, is preparing an action plan on housing, to be published shortly, which will consider the scope for using off-balance sheet mechanisms which would not impact on overall deficit targets, to supplement direct Exchequer expenditure. Since the budget of 2015, the Government, under the auspices of a group led by the...
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I said there were no additional mechanisms, so there are off-balance sheet mechanisms that are being used at the moment or that have been considered in the past. They are being looked at again. To answer the question the Deputy put to me, I do not believe there are any new further models that have not been considered and which are available to the State to deal with this issue. I believe...
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: This is being urgently looked at. The Deputy asked me what the off-balance sheet models are. He will be aware of two of them: the approved housing bodies and the so-called NARPS models, which are a special purpose vehicle of NAMA. Those are the two main models being used to provide off-balance sheet funding. As I said to the Deputy a moment ago, I do not believe that there are any new...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Shortall for her questions. In response to her first question on whether I am aware of the potential for legal action, of course it is always open to any group within society to challenge any piece of legislation introduced by the State. Deputy Shortall put a direct question to me, asking whether I am acting in a manner consistent with the legal advice I have received. The...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I do not want that to happen. On the third point, I am aware of people whom we want to work in the public service who are going abroad.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I want them to be able to stay at home.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Nobody is being blackguarded by this Government. As Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, I dealt with some of the Luas issues. I have dealt with many industrial relations matters. I have always recognised the right of people to be outside collective agreements and their democratic right to ballot on any agreement that is put to them. It is for union members to make a decision on...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What is cynical is putting words in my mouth that I never said. I never said that anybody who voted for the Lansdowne Road agreement was voting for FEMPI.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: No. Deputy Murphy is putting words in my mouth. I can see the Deputy has already acknowledged that he is wrong.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What I said is that those people who voted for the Lansdowne Road agreement simply voted for that agreement.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I did not make any reference to FEMPI.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: In relation to the latter point, Deputy Murphy put to me his concerns regarding the process being anti-democratic. What would be anti-democratic is a failure to take account of the fact that the majority of unions have voted for the agreement. That is what I have done.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What the Deputy has put to me is how we make use of the benefits of a recovery that he alleged would never happen.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Paul Murphy said in the House on a number of occasions that the very kind of change in the economy that is enabling this would never happen, and because it is now happening, we are in a position to hire 18,000 more public servants-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and to honour the commitments we have made.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The latter question is a matter for the Business Committee of the Dáil, as Deputy Boyd Barrett well knows. The ordering of the business is now done by this House rather than by me as Minister or by the Government. It is a matter for the House. As the adjectives the Deputy ascribes to me get more extreme, could we just look at some of the points and facts about the Lansdowne Road...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The figures are very clear. The moment one puts facts on the record, those who call for new politics the loudest do not want to hear. They want to stop the discussion.