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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It would be very interesting for proper analysis of economic levers to understand exactly which are internal and which are external. In respect of credit to small businesses, Mr. McCarthy's graph starts in December 2010. I imagine if one goes back to 2007, it would dwarf our credit to small and medium sized enterprises at current rates. If we extended the chronology of the graph, we would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: With regard to the demographic changes, up until April of this year about 80,000 people had emigrated. Is there any information with regard to what is happening now and do these demographic changes indicate any level of net inward migration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: With regard to aircraft transactions, which is a very big sector, these must create distortions and I think they are being included in GDP. What distortion effects are they having in the national accounts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Nonetheless, it distorts the investment figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On European interest rates being low, the NTMA is holding cash in the region of €15 billion. Is there an opportunity cost in holding that amount of cash in the State when there could be a net gain if some of it was invested in infrastructural development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There has also been a startling increase of 45% in corporation tax receipts in the first three quarters of the year. Why is that? Does it involve multinationals anticipating changes to the BEPS and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: A big puzzle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On the large corporation tax increase, the view is that we are not certain what is behind it. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it the case that under the fiscal rules the State has to reduce its debt ratio to 60% by 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Given that and the issues we discussed earlier, is there any estimation of what the fiscal space will be in the three or four years following budget 2016?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Can Mr. McCarthy recollect if those figures are in or around those about which we have been speaking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Would the amount be in or around €1.5 billion?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the Taoiseach going to do something to find out?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is the Taoiseach's lack of awareness that is of concern.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that going to be the Taoiseach's answer for everything?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are on the waiting list at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin in Dublin 12 for spinal surgery; and scoliosis surgery, for each of the past four years; the average length of time children have had to wait; the number of children who are on the waiting list, who are being sent to other hospitals; and if he will...

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom tacaíocht a thabhairt don Bille seo. The Minister of State raised a number of issues with the timing of the proposed Lá na Poblachta. The point of Deputy Ó Snodaigh's Bill is to separate the celebration from the Easter weekend, which is a religious time for many people. Celebrating 1916 in a chronological fashion is logical. If the Minister of State sticks to...

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some want to bask in the commemorative glow of Pearse and Connolly while hundreds of thousands remain on housing waiting lists and thousands more remain homeless. Some use the word "equality" and stretch it, but how can it be used when billions of euro are being spent to repay unsecured debts while elderly people remain on trolleys? One in six Irish people live abroad. Tens of thousands of...

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an mBille tábhachtach seo, Bille atá tábhachtach do na mílte daoine sa tír seo. Tacóidh Sinn Féin leis an mBille agus le cúnamh Dé beidh leasuithe againn le cur os comhair an Tí ar Chéim an Choiste. Tá súil agam nach bhfanfaidh an Bille idir seo agus Céim an Choiste go deo. Tá...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (13 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are official connections, structures or integrated service provisions between cross-Border educational organisations such as the education and training boards and local enterprise offices and their northern counterparts; and if any of the universities provide outreach courses in the Border areas. [35209/15]