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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: We will let Senator Byrne in as he has not had a chance yet, and then open up for a brief second round for those who wish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I will allow for a second round of about five minutes each because I know there is very keen interest. I do not want to curtail the debate. An Teachta Timmins has indicated that he wants to ask a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I do not think we can pursue this line. We have to be careful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: It is more in terms of our privilege in all those things.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: We can explore the idea of it but we cannot mention any names. Is that okay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: You can explore the idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh míle maith agaibh. That was a great debate. It was brilliant. It just shows the interest, and I think it was Mr. Jennings who said the importance is that we keep the interest, or perhaps it was Mr. Hanley, but either way that the interest is there. Today's discussions and everybody going slightly over time, which was fine, showed really the interest that is here. I really...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Thank you, Senator. You can always come back in in the second round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: Could Mr. Hanley wrap up on this?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I am under a bit of time pressure because I have an interview at 12 noon. I thank the witnesses for coming to the committee. It is always interesting when the ESRI and IFAC are here. I would like to use my time to understand a few things. We have heard a lot in the media - it was mentioned in IFAC's opening statement and report - about the idea that the Government budgeted for a €3...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: There is no transparency as to where this overspend is coming from.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: This is not the first time this has happened. How many years has this happened in a row?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: For the job the IFAC is doing and the job we try to do in the committee, the numbers we get on budget day are not the reality. Either there are miscalculations or incompetence, as was said.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: We are just not being honest as to what we are spending.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I understand it will not be perfect but we are talking about €4.6 billion. Obviously there will be pressures. Everybody understands that could happen but this is six years in a row. €4.6 billion is a significant amount. During previous budgets, it was often said specifically regarding the health budget that it was not calculated correctly or they were just not being honest,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: New measures that are trying to tackle something that is imminent and we need to do something about are different. I wish the Government would do it with the housing crisis, but it seems utterly incapable of doing so. What I am trying to get to the bottom of is that the figures announced on budget day are just wrong.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I have one final question but before I finish with this point, I have read with real interest about expanding the role of the fiscal council and the EU directive. Does it have any more information about that matter that it could send to the committee?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: I saw that and I was interested. I would be interested to see what is firm. I am conscious of-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)
Mairéad Farrell: If that is all right.