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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: To follow up on the point made by the Minister of State, it is very important that consideration is given, particularly to small businesses in terms of the impact of a change of this nature on them. This is a crucial consideration as far as I am concerned. There is a time factor in that businesses need to gear up for any type of change. There is also an impact. Before being elected to the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have to come back in regarding the point of consultation. I have great respect for Deputy Chambers but I disagree totally with the point he made. There are a few aspects that are very important. The first is that we should have consultation on any change. The reason is very simple. This country is littered with examples where we have passed legislation without properly thinking through...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (17 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in respect of an application by a person (details supplied) for family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21859/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Maria Bailey, Pearse Doherty and Martin Heydon. The committee is due to meet officials from the European Commission to consider the country-specific recommendations, CSRs, for Ireland and the Commission's assessment of the stability programme update. The CSRs were published last week as part of the EU's annual budgetary cycle for the co-ordination...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as interference caused by them affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. On behalf of the committee, I welcome members of the European Commission to our meeting: Mr. Carlos Martínez Mongay and Ms Polona Gregorin from the Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs, who are accompanied by Mr. Gerry...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay. I will call on a number of Deputies, who should keep their contributions to five minutes each. Replies should be kept to approximately the same time. That should allow everyone who has indicated thus far to be accommodated in the time available. The first to indicate was Deputy Chambers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has 30 seconds to put his third question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy must be brief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is important to note that one of our sister committees is examining this issue in some detail.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am going to stop the Deputy there. There will be time for him to comment further. I want to keep it fair and let everybody back in again.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: This is something the committee has done a great deal of work on. It is at the heart of that answer. We can understand the perspective of the Commission and, depending on their perspective on a rainy day fund, people might agree with the general thrust of what Mr. Martínez Mongay is saying. The question, however, is how EUROSTAT views it because if it takes one particular view of it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: As Chairman, I did not take that meaning at all out of what was said here.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay very much. This has been a very interesting exchange of views. Much information has been covered and there have been a lot of questions. I thank Mr. Martínez Mongay for coming before the committee. We have certainly found it interesting. I also thank all of my colleagues who have contributed.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport and Recreational Development (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the publication of the new national sports policy. [25269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the opening of the 2018 sports capital programme. [25268/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I endorse my colleagues' points about the CAP. I would like to highlight a couple of aspects of this issue. It is absolutely vital for member states to realise that funding will have to be increased. The Irish Government has been clear on this issue and has led on it. If we want to pursue the 80:20 proposal, the agreement of all member states will be needed. It is really a question of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I would like to come back in on one matter, on which I did not touch in my earlier contribution, in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy. My major reservation - I disagree with Deputy Éamon Ó Cúiv, for whom I have great respect - is the notion that the European Commission is pushing allowing this to devolve to member states and increasing flexibility, as outlined in the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I echo what the Minister has said in calling for support for the 1998 and 2009 Acts. It is very important that everyone in this House support them. I call in particular on political parties that have not done so in the past to consider that this is a time to choose. If a party sets itself up as a modern political party and as expert in so many ways on our Judiciary, our policing and our...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Sinn Féin is much closer to Deputy O'Callaghan.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: The lads have not gone away.