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Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: That is fine. The main issue I want to focus on is the national debt. It is €203 billion I believe.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: I was reliably informed that is about €35,000 per person or something along those lines. We should all take out a loan from the credit union and pay it off.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: Yes, they are. I refer to the management of the national debt. What do we do in the event of an international downturn or an all out trade war between China and the US and its implications for the EU and Ireland? We like to say we are in the heart of Europe but we are a small island off the edge of it. That is a problem in these potential scenarios. I refer to protecting Irish taxpayers...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: Is it around 1% per annum? Or 2%?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: Are we running the risk of repeating the same pattern, I will not call it a mistake, that we finished in the 1990s following the racking up of debt in the 1980s? We did not manage the debt. We let our national growth reduce the national debt instead without having paid anything off of it. Given the level of national debt at the moment, is there a concern, if we continue to grow at...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: It is huge.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: What is the nominal debt for Ireland within the EU, given its current size? What would be a normal, average debt?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: I would be very interested to have a session on the annual report the witness referred to at some point in the future, when the Department is available.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: Yes, just on the debt.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (24 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the benefits available to sports clubs in respect of donations made to them; his plans to expand same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17762/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (24 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support cricket here. [17763/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: That is not a point of order.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: I will allow the Taoiseach to answer that briefly.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: I ask the Deputy to repeat the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: I have to stress, before any answer to the question, that it takes from the next group, which is a smaller group.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: Does the Taoiseach wish to answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: There is a question about citizenship.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: We will move on then.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: The Deputy's time is up.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Farrell: Yes.