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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State and I welcome this. I want to ask about Ballina and Westport. I know the Minister of State will agree that projects take a very long time. Is there some way they can be streamlined? I know everything has to go through environmental impact assessments but people's lives are being left on hold while all of these things are happening. There cannot be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the planned reform to the public spending code, outlining how said reforms will achieve greater speed and efficiency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22175/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Minister of State to outline the planned reforms to the public spending code and explain how these reforms will achieve greater speed and efficiency. In November 2021, the then Department of Public Expenditure and Reform introduced an external assurance process, EAP, for major public capital projects. There is a mandatory requirement for funding Departments to participate in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister of State knows, the new process consists of independent expert reviews. These reviews have replaced the technical reviews previously conducted by the Department for business cases. Independent reviewers seems to mean consulting firms and for large EAP contracts, this seems to mean the large, generalist consultancy firms. What I am concerned about is that these consultancy...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would appreciate it if the Department would provide a note indicating exactly where the IMF made the recommendations for the change. It remains unclear if these reforms will make any substantial difference to the speed of project delivery and this is what concerns me. The then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath stated in January 2022 that the timelines...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When will the capital works management framework be published? It began in March 2019. It is beyond urgent that it be published to bring clarity to much of what we are talking about.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When will the school transport review be published? One of the reasons I ask is that there are 250 students, rising to 300 next September, attending Sancta Maria College in Louisburgh. As it stands, it costs €850 for one child, €1,452 for two children and €1,800 for three children to get to school. Parents want to send their children to the nearest co-educational...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As a vote has been called in the Dáil, we will suspend proceedings until it is completed. We will then resume in public session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome Professor Niamh Moloney, chair of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, Mr. Philip Kermode, Dr. Barra Roantree and Ms Anne Vaughan, who are members of the commission, and Dr. Colm O’Reardon, secretary to the commission, and his colleagues from the secretariat, Ms Sinead Ryan, Mr. Colin O’Connor and Mr. Gary Hynds. Before we begin I will explain some limitations to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Gabhaim buíochas le Professor Moloney. I will now call members in the usual sequence, namely,Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, Green Party, Labour and the Rural Independent Group. They will have ten minutes each. As no one from Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael is present, I call Deputy Doherty of Sinn Féin.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Another vote has been called in the Dáil so we will have to suspend again. We will continue with Deputy Nash on our return.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are back in public session and will continue with Deputy Nash.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Professor Moloney. I call Deputy Aindrias Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will start with social insurance. The commission recommended that the PRSI rate paid on self-employed income should be aligned with the higher rate of employer's PRSI, which is 11.05%. Was that unanimous among commission members?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could Professor Moloney provide the commission's assessment of the current level of employer's PRSI in a wider European context and how it should change in the years ahead?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is considering the constitutional future, including economics, taxation and welfare. Three weeks ago, Dr. Tom Boland and Dr. Ciara Fitzpatrick appeared before that committee. They made the point that we never really sat down and looked at the values that underpinned our tax and welfare system and suggested that there is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Dr. Roantree is the right person, so.