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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: What effect would the implementation of a little quantitative easing over the next two years have if it was just simply targeted at the peripheral regions in the form of credit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: If we think that there are elements outside of our control, which could go in our favour, what is the general thinking on front-loading versus back-loading the adjustments domestically? If elements can go in our favour, surely we should back-load the adjustment because it will make it easier for people in their day-to-day lives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: And they are at an unsustainable level debt wise and in the context of the cost of living.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Would front-loading or back-loading be Professor Barrett's preferred option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Is Professor Barrett free to attend a few public meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: We no longer think like that around here. Potentially the ESM may recapitalise the banks retrospectively. Representatives of AIB and Bank of Ireland have suggested to the committee that might not be necessary and they could approach private institutions to recapitalise themselves. On the banks' cost of funds, the blended rate filters down to the interest rate people pay for their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Will interest rates end up increasing as a result?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: We have access to the ECB through the ESM. Would we not have more secure funding at Euribor rates or thereabouts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: The ECB has claimed it wants to reduce the amount of funding it provides to our banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Has anyone else got thoughts on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Ryanair will claim to be able to do it cheaper and get more people in.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (25 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay with agri-environment options scheme payments; if his attention has been drawn to the conditions that farmers are facing after the unfavourable weather that has been experienced; and the way he is going to rectify this. [19621/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (30 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: 258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the State spent on lighting in State owned or operated public buildings in 2012. [19894/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (30 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: 259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of the State's current expenditure that is spent on social protection, healthcare and education. [19895/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (30 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: 513. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for fluoridation in the water here. [20113/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (30 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: 514. To ask the Minister for Health if the policy of fluoridation of our national water system has been reviewed recently. [20114/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (30 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the health benefits and the reason for fluoridation in water here [20112/13]

Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)

Arthur Spring: I agree with what some Deputies said about the way farming families have pulled together to try to solve the problem. Deputy John Browne said some farmers in County Wexford were sending bales of silage to Galway for €15. As we never gave them a hiding in hurling, they might send something in our direction in County Kerry.

Fodder Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (7 May 2013)

Arthur Spring: There is a crisis and it is predominantly felt along the west coast. I travelled to Dublin by train this morning and the fields are black instead of green because there is nothing growing in them. Farmers have been perturbed mentally by what is happening. They are in dire straits financially, but as one of the Deputies representing the western region pointed out, this is a factor due to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (7 May 2013)

Arthur Spring: 205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum duration a recipient of disability allowance may remain outside the State in order to remain entitled to their payment. [21158/13]