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- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and to honour the commitments we have made.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The latter question is a matter for the Business Committee of the Dáil, as Deputy Boyd Barrett well knows. The ordering of the business is now done by this House rather than by me as Minister or by the Government. It is a matter for the House. As the adjectives the Deputy ascribes to me get more extreme, could we just look at some of the points and facts about the Lansdowne Road...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The figures are very clear. The moment one puts facts on the record, those who call for new politics the loudest do not want to hear. They want to stop the discussion.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The facts are clear. The benefit for people who are earning €23,000 per year is an 8.7% increase.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: That is needed in recognition of the contribution those people make every day in the delivery of public services.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I go back to many of the points-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: When one attempts to put arguments to the people who tabled questions, they have no interest in what one has to say.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I have said again and again-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and I am happy to do so again, in case the Deputy did not hear me when I said it earlier, that I recognise the huge contribution public servants make in classrooms-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and offices, the Garda-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I recognise that again and again. Our ability to restore their wages and to increase them over time does depend on the future ability of the State to pay for that.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The annual cost to the State of all the measures the Deputies are asking me to repeal is more than €2 billion.
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, is preparing an action plan on housing, to be published shortly, which will consider the scope for using off-balance sheet mechanisms which would not impact on overall deficit targets, to supplement direct Exchequer expenditure. Since the budget of 2015, the Government, under the auspices of a group led by the...
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I said there were no additional mechanisms, so there are off-balance sheet mechanisms that are being used at the moment or that have been considered in the past. They are being looked at again. To answer the question the Deputy put to me, I do not believe there are any new further models that have not been considered and which are available to the State to deal with this issue. I believe...
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: This is being urgently looked at. The Deputy asked me what the off-balance sheet models are. He will be aware of two of them: the approved housing bodies and the so-called NARPS models, which are a special purpose vehicle of NAMA. Those are the two main models being used to provide off-balance sheet funding. As I said to the Deputy a moment ago, I do not believe that there are any new...
- Other Questions: Government Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The additional capital expenditure that the Minister for Finance and myself announced is precisely in recognition of the additional investment needs our economy has. The figures we outlined in the summer economic statement were very clear. We indicated that €5 billion worth of additional funding would be made available for capital investment, which is €1 billion more than we...
- Other Questions: Government Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I have outlined to the Deputy that the percentage of our national income that is absorbed through capital investment is going to increase. It will increase because of the Government's decision that any additional resources that become available will go into capital investment. The Deputy makes a point regarding total Government expenditure as a percentage of national income and what will...
- Other Questions: Government Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I am not missing any point. I welcome that the Deputy has at least acknowledged that we are planning to increase capital expenditure. Four to five billion euro is not a small amount of money. It is an increase of 18% on the €27 billion already provided for additional schools and hospitals, to maintain the roads we have constructed and to provide new transport projects where...
- Other Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: As I indicated earlier in response to another question, my Department is represented on the interdepartmental group on EU-UK relations which was convened by the Taoiseach in advance of the UK referendum on EU membership. Therefore, my Department contributed to the risk assessment conducted by the Department of the Taoiseach in advance of the referendum. This was included in the Department's...
- Other Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: We had a discussion on this point at the plenary session of the North-South Minister Council which took place earlier in the week. I will meet with Deputy Doherty's colleague in the Northern Ireland Executive, the Minister for Finance, tomorrow to discuss this issue. The INTERREG and PEACE programmes provide co-funding for infrastructure projects in this country, including across the...