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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: Amendment No. 32 is in the name of Deputy Pearse Doherty and is a New Section. Amendments 32 and 34 are related and may be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Message to Dáil (9 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Finance has completed its consideration of the Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I call Deputy Michael McGrath, who I understand is sharing time with Deputy Calleary.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I understand Deputy Pearse Doherty is sharing time with Deputy Peadar Tóibín.

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I must ask the Deputy to conclude as it is time for the next business.

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: We do not have time. We are too busy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: This is the fourth session of our pre-budget submissions. I welcome Professor Frank Murray from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; Ms Cliona Loughnane, policy and research manager of the Irish Heart Foundation; Ms Kathleen O'Meara, head of advocacy and communications at the Irish Cancer Society; Mr. Gerry Martin, CEO, of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Dr. Shari McDaid, director...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I thank Professor Murray but I am afraid I will have to cut him short. We will stick with the three-minute rule. I call Ms Loughnane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I thank Ms Loughnane and call Ms O'Meara.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I am afraid Ms O'Meara has run out of time. I must call Mr. Gerry Martin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: The Clerk to the Committee and myself were starting to think that we were in the health committee rather than the finance committee with the issues that were cropping up. Supermarkets like Aldi sell fruit and vegetables very cheap. I have three teenagers and one can buy fruit such as oranges and vegetables at a very reasonable price in Aldi.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: If we were to focus on what Ms Loughnane said, we should examine issues such as commercial rents in deprived areas to drive supermarkets into those areas rather than introducing a blanket food subsidy on fruit and vegetable, which again will advantage middle class and better off people according to her theory.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: If I were to bring in representatives of Coca-Cola and of some of the retailers before the committee, one side would say we are a nanny state and that it is a matter of parental responsibility while the representatives before us would say that they are manipulating people by marketing, but let us stick to hardcore financial issues. Would Ms Loughnane's organisation promote a blanket ban on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: We could just call for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: There is no point in dallying around it; we will do it or not do it. That is the way we should look at it. Some of the information we have is very interesting. One of the points being made is that the issue of getting the VAT back on below cost selling of alcohol is an anomaly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: Sugar is quite an expensive commodity. It is not sugar that is used in most of these soft drinks, but some type of maize by-product.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: Should we focus on those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: A number of groups have appeared before the committee, although I have only chaired this meeting, and if I were to say we were making our own recommendations and to ask each group to identify one issue it would like me to raise with the Minister, Deputy Noonan's, what would the issue be for this group? I am talking about just one issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Liam Twomey: I was interested in what Ms O'Meara said, that by switching to cheaper brands one could continue to consume the same amount of tobacco. That is an issue.