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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It does make sense. I thank Ms. O'Callaghan. I want to go back to the film relief. I was perusing the numbers. This is a minor detail in the greater scheme of things but I noticed a noteworthy change was made between 2019 and 2020. The expenditure went from €1.3 million to €2.2 million but the number of people or groups in receipt of the tax expenditures went from 41 to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I know there would be variations in the numbers. This was the only one I could find that had such a marked change.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is confusing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that detail on those numbers set out anywhere?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Are the flat, or unchanged, numbers available anywhere?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is parliamentary question territory.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is no problem. It was as much our issue as it was yours.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will allow the witness to answer but I want to draw Deputy Boyd Barrett's attention to the fact that a vote has been called.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay I am going to draw the meeting to a close although I am sure Deputy Boyd Barrett has more questions. I thank the officials from the Department of Finance, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the representatives of the Revenue Commissioners for attending today's engagement with the committee. It was genuinely very useful to us. The next public committee meeting is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I agree with what has been said. In fairness, Deputy Murphy has done a good job in giving a comprehensive review of the situation. One of the issues is it was repeatedly implied during our previous conversations around it there was going to be a similar equal. It is now clear there is not going to be a similar equal. I do not think we should let that go. It sets us back to square one and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is fair to say that we have moved past the Owencurra issue, because that discussion has brought up a number of questions about the choices relating to money, spending and capital investment by the HSE. Members could say this about their own constituencies. It has been incredibly difficult to get information on that issue. This is particularly relevant to the Committee of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I would say one could go to every single constituency and there would be questions about why it is doing something in one building and something else in another building.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Mental health.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: If we structure a meeting or go back to those concerned, I will be a bit wary about having national representatives from the HSE who say every single time we ask them that a deep-dive or granular examination was something that happened at local level. Therefore, I am wondering whether we could structure the meeting to stitch in the heads of the two specific CHOs so we will not end up going...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Could we ask An Bord Pleanála to provide to us anything that is not in the public sphere but that relates to the conduct and the appointment of its own board? Would that be possible? Could we ask, if the board has any internal documents, that it release them to the Committee of Public Accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The Department has changed the situation, in terms of trade desks, with other countries in the past few years. Will Mr. Conlan outline what the change has been? Has some of it moved to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What does Mr. Conlan mean when he says "back"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Will Mr. Conlan outline to me what the current relationship is between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it comes to trade?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: When the then Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was on missions or having events before the changeover, did the Department and industry stakeholders go, or was there always someone from the Department responsible for enterprise and trade seconded to go with them? Is this joint venture new?