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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is a specific and slightly different area. Will the Minister come back to us with a note on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy can ask the Minister a question. I cannot stop him from asking the Minister a question. We have areas set out for discussion at this meeting, although, to be fair, we are not just having open questions and answers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Lahart asked me before he left, but if Deputy Jonathan O'Brien has a question directly relating to this, he can go ahead with it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Deputy O'Brien and I call on Deputy Lahart. I do not know what the Deputy wishes to raise with the Minister but to be fair to both of them I advise him that we have a structure for what we are discussing here today. If a question cannot be answered today I am sure the Minister will come back to the Deputy at some point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: It includes PPPs and issues relating to the health Estimates area.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am a constituency colleague of Deputy Lahart and as much as that information is relevant and important perhaps the Minister cannot comment on specific projects but he can speak about the situation in the general context of the budget situation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is all the questions. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. We very much appreciate the opportunity for an exchange of views. We will follow up with him in writing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: We will hopefully be able to establish something-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: -----that will enable us to communicate in writing but there are many views, as the Minister heard clearly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make entering the teaching profession easier for persons who are working full time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6190/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (13 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: 321. To ask the Minister for Health whether funding is available for organisations (details supplied). [6675/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (13 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: 661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to launch a new tenant purchase scheme for long-term social housing tenants; and if carer's allowance will be included as allowable income. [6712/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with European Ombudsman (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Some of my points have been raised already, so I will not go over them again. I would like to tease one point out further. There is a fundamental difference between a sovereign state and a national parliament legislating in a particular way. The European Union, which is a confederation of national states, is engaging in the legislative process that it has put together. I welcome a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will be brief as well, Chair. I express my sympathies to the Fox family and the members of An Garda Síochána on the death of Detective Superintendent Colm Fox. There is a limited amount I am going to go into here because a lot has been gone through, in some very good detail, by my colleagues. Some of what I have to say are just observations, having listened to the debate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Mr. Finn did a very good job of blaming an IT system earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Somebody made a decision and I do not believe it was an IT system. Somebody in management made a decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I know but somebody a decision and since it was not the IT system, I wonder who made the decision to exclude in that respect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will ask Dr. Singh that question but I am asking Mr. Finn does he know who made that decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: If it was not Mr. Finn, does he know at what level a decision like that one would be made to exclude in that respect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: Yes, but somebody made that decision and Mr. Finn does not know who it was.