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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has just under a minute. I wish to be fair to everybody.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: No. I warned the Deputy about the time and I was rigid with everybody before he arrived. Hopefully, there will be a few minutes later. Deputy Breathnach has been here for almost an hour and a half and I have to be fair to him and let him speak.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: We have concluded the first round for every Deputy and everybody has had a chance to contribute. I now intend to allow a few supplementals. As we agreed that we would conclude this session at 7 p.m., we have four or five minutes and then we will allow for a concluding remark. I have Deputy Pearse Doherty first and then I will come to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I also ask the Minister to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: Two other Deputies are indicating. I want to let the Minister reply and then let the two other Deputies in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: Sorry, the Deputy is not responding. I am going to be fair to other Deputies, even if the Deputy does not want to be. There are two and a half minutes left and Deputies Boyd Barrett and Breathnach both indicated they would like to come back in. I call Deputy Boyd Barrett now.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister for his kind words.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: My question is specifically linked to the one asked by Deputy Jack Chambers. Rather than ask a series of almost identical questions, I was hoping I could follow up on the same point. There are other areas to which I will refer later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will pick up from Deputy Lisa Chambers where she left off as I do not believe we received a very satisfactory answer to this question. I totally accept that when a public representative such as myself is contacted, it is usually because there is an issue. There are plenty of cases where someone is not contacted and things work perfectly, but I do not think the general experience of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: My third question concerns the changes in the regulation dealing with asylum applications. By how much has the number of asylum applications gone up, excluding the Greek applications? I think the figure given in the opening statement included the Greek applications. Will the delegates outline the main countries from which asylum seekers arrive at Irish ports or airports? Will they enlarge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will be happy to discuss individual cases further outside this forum. I reiterate that many people, some of whom have travelled regularly to the United Kingdom, contact public representatives having experienced untold grief in applying for an Irish visa. The frequency of such complaints indicates a pattern of problematic processing of applications. It is difficult to reconcile this with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will follow up on one or two randomly selected cases with Mr. Kirrane’s office in order that he can explain delays or difficulties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: We should move on because I am under time constraints and wish to hear Mr. Kirrane’s replies to my other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: My main question was about transparency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: I follow what Mr. Costello said about the timeline for the prioritised cases of people being relocated here. However, some asylum seekers end up in the system for years. Is he saying that is primarily due to the backlog in the old system and that when the new system is up and running fully and the backlog is cleared that will not happen? When does he envisage having the processing time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Brophy: My final question was on the change with the opt-in to the reception conditions for asylum seekers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Sep 2018)

Colm Brophy: As we have a quorum, we will commence the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I have received apologies from Deputies Michael McGrath and Lahart. At approximately 3.30 p.m., the committee will engage with researchers from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, to consider the findings of its gender impact report. Before that, I propose that we go into private...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Colm Brophy: The purpose of today's public session is to receive an update from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, on its gender budgeting report due to be published shortly. Our committee produced a report on gender budgeting this year and the ESRI worked with the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, on this project. It is an important practical step in progressing gender budgeting. Before...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Keane for an interesting presentation feeding off the opening statement paper which was submitted to the committee. I am sure members want to ask questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Colm Brophy: We are on gender budgeting so we will come back to this-----