Results 401-420 of 535 for speaker:Joe Neville
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: I thank the witnesses for answering every question.
- Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: I welcome the O'Regan family from Dublin via Cork and thank them all for coming to the Gallery. It is good to see them. We are speaking about the Middle East which is obviously a complex issue, as outlined by Deputy McGrath. The Government has done a huge amount of work internationally, from a diplomatic perspective, and has put a huge effort into discussing and raising the issue in a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: Did the Commissioner say that Garda numbers follow population where there is a population increase? It was in relation to another question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: North Kildare has a rapidly growing population. It has increased from 110,000 to 246,000 over approximately 20 years. We do not have a full-time Garda station in Celbridge or in Maynooth, despite the presence of the university. Kilcock Garda station covers a wider area than just the town of Kilcock; it also covers north-west Kildare. There are different issues in all of those towns....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: Will we have the resources for the new operating model?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: How many road traffic stops were done for alcohol and drug testing in 2023, for example? Roughly what percentage were caught for alcohol and for drugs? What are the variants between alcohol stops and drug stops?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: I am interested in the figures for drugs and alcohol.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: I do not mind, yes. I thank the members of the council for coming in here today. Some of my questions might be starting off from the perspective of a bit of background on them and how they might view the committee as being not of assistance, but able to be assessed by them. I am first-time TD. It is only our third meeting here. Has Mr. Coffey been in front of the committee previously?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Would Mr. Coffey have found it instructive and helpful?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: How would Mr. Coffey see the fiscal council's role?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: I will ask Mr. Coffey a left-field question and then come back to the main one. Is our inability to set our own interest rates much of an issue?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Does that lead to a lot of the topics Mr. Coffey is talking about?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: No, but Mr. Coffey might have an opinion.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: It seems to be similar to 2004, 2005 and 2006.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: To be honest, that is the theme I heard when listening to Mr. Coffey and what came through in his opening statement. He struck me as being quite fiscally conservative in his thinking. I am looking at my three colleagues to my left who might potentially have different opinions but that is just based on the policies of the parties. The witness is almost saying we are probably at risk of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Fiscally then, yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Once again - and I do not want to put words in Mr. Coffey's mouth - he is essentially saying if we want to spend more that is fine, as long as we are taxing more. It is about fiscal conservatism, that is, not spending more than you are taking in, as opposed to any other-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: I have a specific question to ask but I know I will be cut off in six seconds but we need to spend more on infrastructure. We have seen it all. We need to do more and the witness referenced this. How do we interlink the need to spend more on capital infrastructure while maintaining, not hothousing, the current expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: How do you not do that if you need infrastructure?