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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Deputy not to use the word "compromised". He could ask about effectiveness and whether it was operational.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: With respect to Professor FitzGerald, he would have limited information as to what any bank would have been doing over a two and a half year period.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: If there was a question, it might be: Had any of the financial institutions, in the lead up to the guarantee, engaged with Professor FitzGerald on what they saw or perceived or concerns they had in regard to an impending crisis?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: You have only a minute.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I will bring matters to a conclusion. The task of this inquiry is not just to examine the past and identify system failures or problems or discuss probabilities during that time but also to look to the future and ensure future modelling of financial assessments and risk are better dealt with. What lessons about modelling and forecasting in the Irish economy can be learned from the crisis?...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I thank Professor FitzGerald for his participation in today's meeting. It has been very informative and valuable and has added to our understanding of the factors leading to the banking crisis. On behalf of the committee, I thank Professor FitzGerald for the extensive time he has given to the committee this morning and the preparation he put in beforehand. I know he did a lot of...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: No. 1 on the agenda is consideration of the Revised Estimates for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for 2015, Vote 13 - Office of Public Works, which was referred by order of the Dáil on 18 December 2014 to the committee for consideration. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for the OPW, Deputy...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Will we hear a short opening statement by each member before dealing with the individual subheads?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: We will, therefore, go straight to the first subhead.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Are we going through the subheads?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Does the Deputy not have a painting by Jack B. Yeats in his office?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: I want to give everyone a chance to come in first. You might hold those answers for the moment.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Have you much to do to respond?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Please be brief, because I do not want it running on too long for other members.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy is discussing the incorrect Vote. That will come up during the next session at 4.30 p.m..
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Before we move from that point, the committee has decided as part of its work programme to consider the insurance issue. We can put this into the mix too. We would appreciate if the Minister of State would send any information he receives to the committee secretariat because it is within our remit. We will feed it into our discussions when the insurance companies come before us.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: As a matter of interest, if the Minister of State were asked what were the most substantial reforms that have been done in his Department in recent years, what would he say they are?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: As regards sites, the Minster of State has done a full inventory of all the sites the OPW manages. Does he have any liaison with, say, the IDA in specific regions where the IDA finds it does not have the appropriate sites? Does he liaise with the IDA and see if he would have the appropriate sites that might be useful for it or even for other enterprises?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: I will now call out the individual programmes and corresponding subheads for Vote 13. Vote 13, Office of Public Works, subheads A1 to A7, inclusive. Are there any comments or questions? This is programme A, flood risk management. A1 and A2 are administration - pay and non-pay. A3 is purchase of plant and machinery. A4 is hydrometric and hydrological investigation and monitoring. A5 is...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (11 Feb 2015) Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Key outputs, targets and context and impact indicators. Any comments or questions? No. Agreed. Appropriations-in-aid - any comments or questions?