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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Witnesses who appear before the committee are invited to attend to discuss a specific brief. I wish to acknowledge that the witnesses present were invited here to discuss the public service performance review and, therefore, that is what they have been briefed on.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is definitely the case that the Deputy got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: As one more Deputy is waiting to speak, I ask Deputy Eamon Ryan to be very brief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The witnesses are getting off lightly and do not need to respond to Deputy Bailey. That concludes today's session. We are almost bang on time. I thank the witnesses for interacting with the committee. Many very interesting ideas have been raised. We will write to the Department with some of the committee's ideas on the report structure and ways of reporting as an input into developing...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: To my mind, if I followed what just happened there, we have fundamentally thrown away the book on how a Minister makes a statutory instrument. Effectively it will be the Oireachtas that will have to give prior approval to statutory instrument. As such, the system of statutory instruments as we now understand it, with a review capability for the Oireachtas, will be gone. The ability to use...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will not repeat points made by Deputies Mick Wallace and Clare Daly. However, as a committee member, it is appropriate to state we did work on this issue as a committee. There is a process in which committees engage. It is a vital part of drafting and putting together the approach to be taken to legislation. We looked at the issue; brought people in and listened to them and made a...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have a feeling my colleagues from the Seanad will have heard well before I get an opportunity to meet them.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I move amendment No. 82:In page 35, line 35, after “candidate” to insert “, or in relation to the scripts completed by him or her in an examination,”. This is a small set of amendments, primarily to do with access to examination scripts. It is designed to tidy up the process and in no way seeks to restrict the current situation in which candidates have access to,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am willing, obviously, to accept that but it is very important because access to an examination script could have major implications for the examination process and marking systems. I will wait to see what the Minister comes back with on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I was not going to comment. I find it amusing that people view communications from themselves in one way but view as completely different the communications from others who are engaged in the same career path. If people chose to communicate with an individual through a letter in an envelope or if people chose to communicate by direct mail, it is the same process at heart and we should...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Many people wish for RTÉ to be controlled by the Government but it certainly does not seem to be.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Declan Breathnach and Martin Heydon. The select committee will be holding a number of pre-budget scrutiny sessions to consider revenue raising and tax expenditure options in advance of budget 2019. The issue of the petrol and diesel excise duties gap was considered by the tax strategy group which examined a possible pathway to equalising these...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and delegates to turn off their mobile phones, as interference caused by them affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I welcome Edgar Morgenroth, Professor of Economics at Dublin City University and formerly of the ESRI. I thank him for attending. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give to the select...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Professor Morgenroth for his opening statement. I call Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I call Deputy Broughan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have a number of questions for Professor Morgenroth. One of the most interesting things I took from his briefing and the questions he answered is that we are caught in a bind of our own making. As Deputy Broughan and Deputy Lahart alluded to, as a State we have historically used motor taxation as an effective revenue driver by having it so high at 10% of revenue raised. Our ability to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Was the revenue loss broken down into the number of people paying, for example, lower excise on the cars they purchased, lower excise on the fuel they purchased or lower road tax?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Professor Morgenroth and call Deputy Lahart.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: As no-one else is offering, I shall conclude the meeting. I thank Professor Morgenroth for engaging with us on this matter. I wish to advise members that we will arrange separate meetings with the Irish Road Haulage Association and the electric vehicle owners. This will ensure that we hear all sides of the argument. I thank Professor Morgenroth for his attendance. I propose that we...