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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Let us put aside the standard rating for a second because to me that is same as saying that if we move the marginal tax rate from X to Y, one could take that up. They are not explicitly linked. Social Justice Ireland is linking them because they are pension issues but they are not-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Sure, but they are separate issues. If the committee is meeting and doing the algebra of raising and spending money, in the context of the latter, we would have to put in €714 million. That is what I am interested in. Is there an 80-20 version of that says that if one was to do that for everybody, it is the Rolls Royce solution but is too expensive on its own but that a number of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I will finish with the National Women's Council of Ireland. This is an open question. The committee is looking at a full-year budget for the first time. In terms of gender equality, be it in respect of opportunity, retirement age and the pay gap - the entire gamut of gender equality - does the council have a top three list of items it believes the committee should recommend to the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Child care would be a budgetary measure as opposed to equality budgeting.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I read through Social Justice Ireland's submissions, which refer to tax credit refunds and so forth. What is the group's opinion on the concern about taking people out of the tax net? It is not a smart thing to do. There are other ways of helping. It is not about less support. My belief, rightly or wrongly, is that if people are paying taxes, it is empowering. They feel that they have a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: The witnesses can answer however they like.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry to cut across Dr. Healy, but those categories are rather wide - public services and infrastructure.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Dr. Healy have-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: They will make sense to me. I understand Social Justice Ireland's documentation and the context. I have all the background and I know Social Justice Ireland's five priorities.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Healy.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: It sounds like political heresy - long-term visions and planning. Where we would be? No, I agree wholeheartedly. I will ask a simple question to which there may not be a simple answer. Social Justice Ireland is on the national media a great deal concerning homelessness and it works in that area. I am not referring to housing, but emergency accommodation for the men, women and, God...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Would Ms Murphy e-mail the information to me?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I could not agree more. That is why I put a caveat to the question. It is a much bigger question. There is also a raw ethical issue of a rich country allowing what is happening tonight and every night.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Healy and the Chairman, I am nearly done and I thank them for their time. I want to go back to a point made by the Chairman on the level of taxation. This committee spent some time looking at where we are at regarding public spending. Reference was made to Mr. Seamus Coffey, who said that we are a lower tax economy and a lower spend economy, however the majority of that lower...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: A dual system, State-based with full transparency and so on?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (1 Dec 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: 257. To ask the Minister for Health if getting married would affect access to an existing medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38280/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Dec 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied); the timeframe for the completion of the school; the timeframe by stage and date; if barriers to the completion of the project within this timeframe have been identified to date; the nature of these barriers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38350/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Dec 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an acquisition of land for a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38351/16]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the delegation for its time. Last year, the convergence margin was applied because it was deemed Ireland had not hit one of its targets for budgetary correction. The economic logic was that the economy was overheating and, therefore, one cannot buck all of the real correction and one has to overcorrect. Due to the fact that logic was applied, we missed our target which meant a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I have a follow up question but Mr. Martínez Mongay does not need to explain why. Does Mr. Martínez Mongay stand over the view of the Commission that the Irish economy is currently overheating?