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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that. I caution that while the economy is doing very well, we still have a deficit of €8 billion. What are the most recent projections for 2015?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is the net figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is that a function of the fact that the percentage of short-term unemployed is falling while the long-term unemployed, for whom it is more difficult to re-enter the workforce, are becoming a higher percentage of the overall number unemployed? Is that a contributing factor? The people who are short-term unemployed are taking up jobs and are being re-employed much more quickly whereas it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: There must be a reason the participation rate is falling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015: Department of Finance (7 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Instead of three or four part-time jobs coming on stream, one full-time job does. Is that what Ms Weymes is saying?

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister, Deputy Varadkar for being present to take this matter. He is fully aware of the difficulties. I have had discussions with him in recent weeks on a particular issue related to the gross overcrowding at the University Hospital Limerick. An interim solution is needed to this problem. We know a new state-of-art accident emergency department will not be ready and open to...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister. I welcome the fact the SDU’s indicator is calling for additional bed capacity at UHL in the accident and emergency department. A number of interim measures are required. First, the Minister should examine the existing hospitals in the network, including Nenagh, Ennis and St. John's, to see what additional capacity exists. I understand a 20-bed unit in St....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: The main relevant article in the Bill is Article 3, which states the purpose of the Bill. It refers to the purpose being "to mobilise funding and provide stability support under strict conditionality, appropriate to the financial assistance instrument chosen, to the benefit of ESM Members which are experiencing, or are threatened by, severe financing problems, if indispensable to safeguard...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is a saving but there still is a borrowing on behalf of the taxpayer for Anglo Irish Bank.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am not disagreeing with the Minister. The point is-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: We are at cross-purposes here.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Actually, we are.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Let me clarify the point and the Minister can answer it. The point I am making is very simple, namely, it was necessary to borrow taxpayers' money. The promissory note deal arose and there are major savings to the Irish taxpayer but over a long period of time, effectively the Central Bank bonds will be released onto the market and will be held by third parties. I am not taking from this...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, but over time it is.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: The case of Anglo proves the Minister's own point in that the quicker one can liquidate a bank, the better. Can the Minister set out a range of options as to how ESM would work? Could it take a minority stake in a bank where that would work along with a private issue of AIB?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I note in the Order Paper for the Dáil that a motion has been tabled regarding the Oireachtas Commission instructing legal representatives on proceedings initiated against this committee in the matter of Angela Kearns v. Deputy John McGuinness and others. Where are we as a committee in terms of the legal advice we are receiving? Given that the motion is going through the House today, I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would ask that they would come before us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: It just includes buildings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: In simple terms, does Mr. O'Driscoll have a breakdown of the figure as between buildings and land?