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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: If I understand the Minister's comments, he foresees infrastructural projects getting under way in 2015. Is that a fair assessment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What types of project? Are we discussing road or school projects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the Minister has it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I presume broadband provision is included in the knowledge and digital economy mix.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will revert to the situation in Greece, but what is the Minister's overview of how the issue will be progressed in the European set-up? The Minister will attend the Eurogroup meeting tomorrow and there is to be an ECOFIN meeting on Wednesday, 17 February. When decisions in Europe are made, how does he anticipate that they will deal with the issue? Where will the forks in the road be and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: There will be a preliminary meeting before the Finance Ministers meet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Minister anticipate the Greek Finance Minister tabling a formal proposal to the group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is there a consensus in Europe? The Minister probably touched on this issue. Where will a consensus crystallise on the situation in Greece? Are there issues on which all of the member states involved will have a common viewpoint?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Minister believe it might have been for the home as distinct from the European audience?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Minister optimistic a solution will be found?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the basis of the growing pessimism?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Must a solution be found in the face of the Greek crisis? The Minister spoke about wishing for Greece to remain within the eurozone. Where will the platform be found?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Minister anticipate that some outcome will have been reached by next Tuesday, after four meetings between Eurogroup Finance Ministers and Heads of State?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Professor FitzGerald. He said the cost of producing the medium-term review is €250,000. Am I correct?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Who would fund that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is effectively funded by the Government.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Taking up that theme, in his presentation, Professor FitzGerald spoke about a tumour. He used the analogy of a tumour in respect of how the property market and the banking sector had spread throughout the economy. How did such a tumour go undetected by the ESRI on the basis that it produced reports for the Department of Finance in 2003 on the national development plan, where it was very...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yet you-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: The ESRI is an independent body that does not occupy a political world. Why with all these winds in the air in terms of inflows of funds from US banks for the Irish banking sector and the property bubble that were highlighted independently on a myriad of occasions, did the ESRI baulk in the 2008 report-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I withdraw the comment. Objectively, why does the 2008 report read as if things were normal and we were in for a soft landing? Why does one not get that sense of impending danger in terms of the property market and the fiscal situation for Ireland? If the ESRI is independent and was highlighting all these issues that came up in the media in terms of comments made by Professor FitzGerald's...