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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: The report does not simply single out health in medium-term budgetary plans. It gives a full graph and highlights every one that the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council believes lacks credibility. It is very clear. It states: Aside from some allowances for demographics, and a ramp-up in public investment, departmental ceilings are largely flat for later years. This implies implausibly large...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister stand by the fact that under his proposals as outlined, expenditure as a percentage of GNI* will fall by 2.5% between 2019 and 2023? That is a dramatic decrease in expenditure in this State. It is not credible. Everyone in this room knows that this is not credible. It will not happen.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That is the point-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I do not know about a better flow-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that and will move onto another point on which the Minister may pick up at the end. The figures the Minister is presenting for the latter three years have no value to this committee or to external people looking in because they are not credible because, as the Minister says, he will not reduce expenditure by 2.5%. Why then present them in the first place? He still has the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That was not the question I asked. I asked whether the advice given is similar to that given by IFAC.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Of course the Minister's officials give him advice.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I spoke about sustainable resources.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister should look at the Finance Bill.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister answer-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Can I ask the Chair-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not want to answer the question as to whether any of his officials raised the same concerns I have. He prides himself in being able to answer questions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: It is obvious that the Minister's officials had the same concerns.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister should just answer the question.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Chairman is always fair, and I believe I stayed within my five minutes in terms of the questions. I asked two further questions that the Minister should be allowed to answer. They were about the recommendations of the Wright report, and whether all advice to the Minister is written down and available after the five-year period under freedom of information provisions. It...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: It is being done in spite of me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (15 Jan 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point. In the week leading up to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first Dáil, we need to recognise the primacy of this House and have the debate here, not through briefings to the media or individual briefings to different political parties. It should enter this space early tomorrow, when we will have a proper and full...