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Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: May I comment?

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Is the Acting Chairman sure? Perhaps that is the rule, but it is not enforced at the finance committee. We have a regular back and forth.

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, but normally, when we discuss legislation at the finance committee, the rule the Acting Chairman is seeking to enforce is not enforced. Is the Acting Chairman absolutely sure that is the rule on Committee Stage?

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I have no doubt the Minister will not accept Deputy Boyd Barrett's amendment.

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Obviously, it would be a major structural change to the bank. It is a different version of the point I was making. I believe Deputy Boyd Barrett is also going to the demand side, which we have spent a lot of time discussing in the finance committee in the past two years. While the Minister may or may not accept the amendment, does he accept the point that in order for demand for credit to...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I offer a cautious welcome to the Bill before the House. We all accept that SMEs are the bedrock of the economy. While I welcome the foreign direct investment that continues to come to Ireland, I am concerned at a macro level at Ireland's over-reliance on foreign direct investment. Anything that can be done to create a more robust long-term domestic sector, especially in the SME sector, is...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: This is welcome legislation. It is serious stuff and there is a good deal of technicality to it. I believe the Dáil and the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform could have added considerable value. I simply cannot understand why such important legislation, which is relevant to so many sectors of society represented by Members of the Dáil and Seanad...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: There are fewer of us now, only four.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: On a point of order, the Minister of State's speech contains a great deal of important detail. Will copies be supplied to Members?

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Are they available now?

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State and apologise for interrupting.

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Last week, I submitted a parliamentary question to the Tánaiste, Deputy Joan Burton, seeking assurances that the free travel scheme would continue as is. She stated that she had no plans to limit the use of passes, which is welcome. However, she also stated that a funding cap has been in place now for several years, which means that no new routes and no new private companies are being...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has commissioned independent analysis on potential savings in the Irish health system since March 2011; if so, whether this analysis is available; if no independent analysis on potential savings has been undertaken whether he will consider commissioning such analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: This question pertains to health care, in which the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has become more involved. It really is an attempt to solve something that has puzzled me for many years. Members are aware there have been significant cuts in health care that have come at great pain to many people. While Ireland's health care expenditure per capitais approximately halfway up...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would love to get those figures, as the numbers I received from the Government show a fall from approximately €16 billion to approximately €13 billion for this year but perhaps I can get the numbers at which the Minister was looking. I have looked at the comprehensive review of expenditure, which in the first instance is an internal...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Actually, I do not believe the HSE has the knowledge. I believe that what it has been asked to do and has tried to do is to make incremental savings, namely, to cut a bit here and there and to try to be a bit more efficient here and there. However, I do not believe the HSE has the knowledge to examine the current health care system and conclude that the manner in which health care in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. As I see it, having worked in health care abroad, there is an opportunity here. I have asked some of the most senior people in the HSE to show me the plan or document that sets out how health care delivery should be with regard to primary care centres, community-based teams, home care, respite care and all that good stuff, that sets out what it looks like today, which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge that the budgetary process has significantly improved, certainly in the three years since I have been in the Dáil. However, I ask that the Minister answer the specific question because it would be incredibly useful both for public consideration and for Dáil Éireann's consideration. Of course crisis budgets are different from steady-state budgets. None the less,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a recent submission to him on equality budgeting, if any of the proposals will be incorporated into this year's budget documents; if he will provide a distributional analysis of the proposed budget to be provided to Dáil Éireann on budget day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29847/14]