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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

John Paul Phelan: There is enough in that batch before we get to Deputy Donnelly. I ask the witnesses to respond.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

John Paul Phelan: I thank Dr. Healy and I thank the National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland for their presentations and in answering a lot of questions. There will be ongoing contact between this committee and yourselves. I am sure that they will be before the committee again sometime in 2017. I also thank members.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: I welcome Mr. Carlos Martínez Mongay, director of economies of the member states II at the Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, and Mr. Stefan Kuhnert, deputy director of unit at the Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, to discuss the EU Commission's opinion on Ireland's draft budget for 2017 and the EU Commission's annual growth survey. Before we begin,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: There was also the question regarding Mr. Juncker's comments.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: There was also the question regarding Mr. Juncker's comments.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: Are there EU member states paying down substantial debts? The instruction from the Commission is to use windfall taxes to pay down debt.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: Spain is in a similar space to Ireland. Surely it flies in the face of the perceived economic wisdom of years to advocate the paying down of debt when interest rates are so low that money can be acquired so cheaply by member states. Excluding London, which will be excluded from the EU anyway shortly, Dublin is the most expensive city in the EU in which to rent a home. When this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: We, as a State, can borrow money cheaper than we have ever been able to or will ever be able to borrow it in the future. We could then make a significant impact on that problem but we cannot do it because we are in a strait jacket.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: That is fine.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: Does Deputy O'Connell have a question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: I wish to return briefly to the notion of exceptional revenues regarding the tax receipts this year. The Revenue Commissioners believe that these revenues, these receipts, were not exceptional and that changes made in particular to the Irish corporation tax system a few years ago and improvement in the economic activity of the country would mean that these receipts would come in regardless....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: The evidence we received from the Revenue Commissioners showed that such exceptional revenues did not arise. This question was raised by a number of members of the committee in the context of corporation tax in particular. The Revenue Commissioners did not figure that the increases in receipts under that heading were unreliable. They figured that the increases would continue for the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay and Mr. Kuhnert for their evidence and answering questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: I welcome members and staff of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, Professor John McHale, Mr. Seamus Coffey, Mr. Sebastian Barnes, Dr. Íde Kearney, Mr. Michael Tutty and Dr. Thomas Conefrey. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is here today to discuss its fiscal assessment report. Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile telephones as the interference...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: Of course.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: Deputy Broughan never told the committee how he felt about being called a neo-liberal.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

John Paul Phelan: The comrade recovered. I too thank the members and staff of IFAC, who are present. I think there are nine in total. I will not detain them much longer. I thank Professor McHale, who had a difficult role at certain times in the past six years. He has engaged with the committee since we were established and other Oireachtas committees. I speak on behalf of all the members and Member of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (18 Jan 2017)

John Paul Phelan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on section 29 appeals against refusals to enrol pupils to primary schools in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 inclusive, broken down by local authority areas or, if not available by local authority area, by the smallest administrative area divisions used by his Department, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

John Paul Phelan: 53. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which the action plan for rural development will help elderly persons in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4127/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

John Paul Phelan: 81. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps which will be taken to increase tourism potential in rural areas as part of the action plan for rural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4136/17]