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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: A significant change was renegotiated with regard to the €3 billion sum. The initial intention, as agreed by the troika with the previous Administration, was that the sum in its entirety would go to pare down debt. The negotiation by the new Government was for a 50:50 split between debt repayment and job creation. As we are beginning to exit the bailout programme and that target is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The second part of today's engagement with the Minister concerns public expenditure. Some of the more positive outcomes of the troika's arrival into Ireland have been the way in which budgetary management is scrutinised, the types of budgetary reform that have taken place and the fact that Departments must report on a quarterly basis and those figures must be shown to add up. What the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will deal with both in this session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I suggest the Minister furnish a copy to the secretariat in order that a copy can be provided to members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps we can focus on Coillte and the sale of State assets and we will return specifically to the expenditure side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Is everyone else on or ahead of target?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Please, Deputy Fleming has the floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy has three or four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy is going to run out of time asking questions if he does not allow the Minister respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I know that but he has spoken at great length and he has used up 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: No, they did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It was 13 minutes. The Deputy is out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will give the Deputy one more minute for the Minister to reply. The Deputy must withdraw the comment that I am giving him a shorter time than he requires.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, and it was a 15 minutes slot and the Chair does speak first. If the Deputy wants to have an argument with me he can, and he can have an argument with everyone in the room, but those are Standing Orders and he agreed to them. I specifically agreed this privately with the Deputy beforehand and he agreed it with me privately so he should not speak one way publicly and talk privately in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It is true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It is true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: He can indeed. The Minister is to reply and then Deputy McDonald can speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It is regrettable that Deputy Fleming has taken this approach. It is unworthy of him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I need to move on to the next question so I have to ask the Minister to wrap up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will try to give him a minute or two to respond.