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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will they be available after the first week?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The figures for September will be available to the Minister in the same way that the figures for October are available to him in the first week of that month. There is no reason the White Paper cannot be published on 9 September, in the same way that a White Paper is usually published around 9 October.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I encourage the Minister to give that commitment. I have two final questions. Does the Minister accept that there is a legal impediment on the Government to publish expenditure ceilings for three years?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry. Is there a legal requirement on the Government to publish expenditure ceilings for three years?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not do that in 2020.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not do that in 2021.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Come on. Let us be clear. There is a legal requirement on the Minister to publish expenditure ceilings and it was not done in 2020 nor 2021 in the mid-year report.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: They are usually published in the mid-year expenditure report. Is that correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: They are usually published in the mid-year expenditure report. There were not. I take the Minister's point now and I took it at the time in 2020, but will they be published this year in the mid-year expenditure report? This is the last sitting day of the Dáil, after which the House will go into recess for more than eight weeks and the budget will not be published for a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Are they going to be published?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 543. To ask the Minister for Health if a bus escort trained in the administration of buccal midazolam will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38438/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will delve into some of the figures now that make up the summer economic statement. We might look at existing levels of services, which the council commented on with regard to its assessment of the SPU and again today. The summer economic statement provided €2.2 billion in respect of maintaining existing levels of services and €800 million in respect of pre-committed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Let us tease that out a bit further. Mr. Barnes mentioned welfare and pay. When the Government talks about its allocation for next year in terms of existing levels of service, it is not talking about welfare increases. The latter will be provided under the discretionary amounts it has available. The existing pay deal is included in existing levels of service, but a future pay deal will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Barnes spoke about insulating people from inflation, and not just the inflation we are expecting next year. There is no figure for that in the summer economic statement. Where does IFAC expect inflation to be next year? Will it be in the range of 4% to 5%? Social welfare increases will need to insulate people from last year's increases. As the Government has done nothing this year,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Barnes mentioned that the summer economic statement has revised up the Government's taxation package from €500 million to slightly over €1 billion. He said that the upward revision of the tax package would help to prevent the tax burden from rising substantially. I wish to tease that out. Last month, Dr. Barra Roantree from the ESRI noted that the benefits from changes to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously, that depends on wage growth rather than inflation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I hear what Mr. Barnes said to the effect that lower indexation would lead to more expenditure. The summer economic statement has set out a net taxation package of €1.05 billion. This means that, regardless of the increased taxes, the cut will be €1.1 billion. Obviously, one of the big concerns we have all had for years is the issue of corporation tax. In the context of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome members of IFAC. Its presentations are always valuable and maybe I will start off with that. We know the council is mandated to do an assessment and endorse the macroeconomic forecast provided in the stability programme update, SPU. IFAC does not have the mandate with regard to the summer economic statement, however. Therefore, it does not produce any report after the summer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: So people receive wages and the value of those wages must be maintained. The point has been made, and rightly so, that the budget will come down to choices and targeted measures. The Government has increased the taxation package up to €1 billion. After one subtracts the public pay agreement, there will be less than €2 billion in discretionary expenditure. Once social welfare...