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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy should not ask questions if he is a making a statement. We are not engaging in a question-and-answer session.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I am not questioning the importance of the issue the Deputy raises but I am saying they are not germane to this afternoon's proceedings. I ask him to speak on the Estimates. I assure the Deputy I will be equally strict with the Minister when he responds. I ask members to speak on the matters on the agenda.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Doherty has been a Member of the House long enough to know that there are a dozen different facilities to allow him discuss the issues he wishes to raise. We are discussing the Estimates at this meeting. We will deal with any issues about the Department's operation and budgeting. If Deputy Doherty wishes to discuss those documents under this committee's auspices, I accommodated all...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Not at this stage, as I want to move on to deal with the headings. Those contributions were opening statements and we are not having a question-and-answer session at this stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, I know. I suggest the Minister can deal with the questions when making his concluding remarks. Otherwise, we will never get started on dealing with the Estimates. We have agreed a schedule for dealing with the headings. Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance, relates to pages four to 28 in the briefing document. I will deal first with programme A under administrative subheads...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes. We are dealing with the administrative subheads, after which we will deal with programmes A1 and A3 and B1, B3 and B4.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: We will move on to programme A, European Union and international policy. There are three subheads: A1, administration - pay; A2, administration - non-pay; and A3, consultancy and other services. We will also deal with the key outputs, output targets and context and impact indicators. Are there are any issues arising under subheads A1, A2 or A3?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: One of the outputs to be achieved under programme A is to address how the Oireachtas engages with other European parliaments and the Union itself, particularly in regard to the European semester, a module of which will take place next week in Brussels. This is not directly tied to the Minister as a line Department issue, but the role of this sub-committee is tied to the Department in many...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: One of the significant changes that has taken place as we exit the bailout programme is that we are now into the stability treaty proper. We are a functioning member state that is not in a bailout programme. Country-specific recommendations will be issued to us as part of that, very much based upon what is best for the country and what might be decided in that regard. Those recommendations...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Minister.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: That is correct and I am going to hold to that earlier ruling by ensuring that the Minister and the Deputy confine their remarks to the specific matter under discussion.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, I must intervene. If the Minister and the Deputy want to hold their own meeting, that is fine and I will step out of the room. However, as far as I am aware, I am chairing these proceedings.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps we might return to the issue at hand.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: No. I will deal with the specific headings and then we can wrap up and I will allow the Deputy some flexibility at the end if he wishes to deal with the macro issue. We are speaking to the specific heads now. We are dealing with programme A; A.1 - administration; and A.2 - administration, non-pay. These are under programme A - European Union and international policy. We are dealing with...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will allow the Deputy some flexibility. He can proceed and make his point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy can refer to a specific subhead, we can then deal with that point on that specific heading. I am allowing the Deputy some latitude to make his point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy will give the Minister a chance to reply, I will bring him in.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I need to focus the Deputy to put questions and then-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I call the Minister.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will allow the Minister to continue but I need to make a point. We will have another one of these meetings with the Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform at 4.30 p.m. I know that the members of the select committee other than myself will not be at that meeting but I must adhere to a schedule to ensure that I conclude this meeting in time for the next meeting. We have...