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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Did the HSE, at the time, extrapolate and come up with a figure for the total amount that would have been involved over the years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Does Dr. Smith know what year these allowances have been paid from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Roughly, what would the HSE expect the total to be? Would those figures be reflective of the situation over the past five or ten years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: How many years are we looking at here?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: It is both a legacy and current issue. Given that one of the payments began in the 1990s, this has been going on for the last 20 or 25 years.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Finally, from what year does the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, legislation apply?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of addressing the issue under the FEMPI legislation, can the HSE deal with this from 2010 or 2009 onwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: The HSE has written to all of the agencies involved. Has any of them changed their pay scales and allowance regimes to come back into compliance with Government guidelines? Of the 43 agencies that the HSE wrote to, did any of them respond to the effect that they were changing their pay and allowance scales?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Really what Ms Lawlor is saying is that of the 43 agencies, seven have confirmed compliance. The HSE expects that a further seven agencies will have made the adjustments downwards to be in compliance with Government pay guidelines. That leaves 29 agencies about which the outcome is still unclear.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Could Mr. O'Brien repeat that last point please?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: The original restriction was a 50% restriction, but this is a timing issue. Am I correct in saying that those losses could have been used by the bank over time? It is not as if there is a loss to the Exchequer; there is a timing issue. Am I correct in saying that?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: The banking levy is being brought in as well, which would counteract the timing issue. Can the Minister explain that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Professor McHale and his colleagues and thank them for the valuable work they do. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has adjusted its assessment of the likelihood of Ireland's breaching the 3% deficit ceiling from one in three to one in two. The November Exchequer returns released yesterday show that we are more than €500 million ahead of target in terms of taxes. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: To what choice is Mr. Barnes referring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a significant shift, from a one in three chance to a one in two, particularly in a context where we are seeing growth in employment, a reduction in the live register and stabilising public finances. Yesterday Forbes described Ireland as the best country in which to do business. In short, the indicators are good. Moreover, there is a legitimate view that, like riding a racehorse, where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: The point I am making is that somebody looking in would surely conclude that Ireland is on an upward curve to which the markets are reacting very well. Why then did the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council come to the conclusion that the risks of breaching the deficit ceiling have increased from one in three to one in two?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: Professor McHale would consider the glass to be half full rather than half empty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: My second question relates to the precautionary credit line. In its report, the council's proposal in the context of pushing for such a credit line was qualified to some extent. International market reaction in respect of our bond yields and in general has been extremely positive. Did the council reach a unanimous decision on the proposal that we should seek a precautionary credit line?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: So it was a unanimous decision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have €20 billion in reserve. Is that not a significant insurance policy? Are our guests not pleasantly and agreeably surprised by the markets' reaction to the announcement by the Government? As Klaus Regling, managing director of the ESM, indicated as recently as yesterday, the Government's decision was the right one.