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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: What will happen with people from Northern Ireland working in the South and using their car on a daily basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: The Government said that it is making arrangements for east-west transportation of goods between the UK, Rosslare and Dublin. If somebody is exporting from here through Dublin Port to the UK, I presume that will change if there is a hard Brexit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: What if one is sending the goods to the UK and then he or she decides afterwards to change route and send them to mainland Britain through Belfast?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: It will be up to the UK to put the customs in place at the crossing point in Northern Ireland or at the port in England.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: I wish to ask about the bonded warehouses. Does the Revenue Commissioners see that as being helpful? Will there be bonded warehouses throughout the country or mainly around ports? Will the bonded warehouses have an agency for customs clearance and imports? How does Revenue envisage that whole area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners (24 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: Will Revenue have staff deployed to these bonded warehouses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the fact that the Minister is coming in next week. I would hope that by the time he comes in this issue will be resolved. Those involved have no choice but to go back to the negotiating table. I hope they do that immediately and bring a resolution to the whole issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the delegation and compliment it on publishing a final report. On liquidity and how individual credit unions can survive a cash shortage, I note the proposal that they could follow the Canadian model whereby there would be centralised liquidity for those credit unions. I ask the witnesses to provide some background into their thinking in that regard. How do individual credit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: At the moment every credit union has a facility with some bank or other institution and they are paying for it even though they might not be using it. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: How would a centralised liquidity operation work? Would all the credit unions with surplus cash would pay in, or would it be organised by the Central Bank, or who would be the centralised liquidity authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: Interest rates were never lower. Why would credit unions be looking to change the legislation that restricts them to a 1% interest rate in order to be able to charge 2% a month? That is a 100% increase at a time when interest rates are historically low.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: The main two areas this might impact are the credit and debit cards that might be rolled out and on small loans that are paid back quickly. There needs to be flexibility to increase the interest rate there to cover the cost of a small loan? Those small loans that are paid back quickly could be more expensive. Is that what the witnesses are saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: Many dealerships operate personal contract plans, PCPs, and the credit unions have an operation whereby they charge a percentage. In some places, it seems there are problems with PCPs or it can be envisaged that there could be problems down the road, such as that a car may not realise how much is owed on it at the finish. How do the credit unions compare to the programmes put in place by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: Is the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission turning a blind eye to some of this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Quite a few of the questions I had intended to ask have been asked, so we will not go over that ground again. Some figures mentioned as possible price tags for the children's hospital include €950 million and €1.4 billion. Has there been a tendering process all along which led to all of those increases? Was there a main contract in the first instance which was supplemented by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Has it all been tendered? From what we have read in the papers it seems that BAM won the tender bid because it bid €130 million lower than the next lowest offer. There was a tendering process after the initial contract, all the way along. The public can be fully assured that it is not just extras that is driving the cost of this towards €2 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: On Brexit, we had a discussion with the Revenue Commissioners last week about sealed containers going through a third country, for example, sealed containers travelling from Ireland, through the UK and onwards to Europe. Will there be a requirement for sealed containers from Northern Ireland travelling through southern Ireland, into the UK and on to Europe? Will they be treated in the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: A lorry in the North might be treated differently from a lorry in the South. The lorry in the North, if travelling through the UK, would not be seen as going through a third country, whereas the lorry from southern Ireland, if travelling through the UK, would be seen as travelling through a third country. How is that situation going to pan out if there is to be no border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: I can foresee a situation where one lorry would have to be treated differently from the other. I am sure the container travelling from Northern Ireland through the UK would not have to be sealed going through the UK, whereas containers travelling from the South would have to be sealed. The Minister mentioned air transport and that a number of unilateral, limited and temporary measures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Does that apply in the event of a hard Brexit?