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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)
Colm Brophy: We will go back to where we left Deputy Boyd Barrett, at the end of his first set of questions. We will start, if Ms Donaghy is willing, with an answer from her.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)
Colm Brophy: Yes, absolutely. I call the witnesses to reply, and I am sure the Deputy wants them to do so.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)
Colm Brophy: There is a line between policy and analysis.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)
Colm Brophy: It is unfair to push officials into an area on which they cannot give an answer.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)
Colm Brophy: That is similar to what the Deputy covered earlier. I ask him to conclude now.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)
Colm Brophy: We acknowledge that. I thank all the witnesses for their presentations to the committee and for their answers. I know considerable work went into them, which we appreciate. This is a new area for our committee and we hope to do a lot of work on it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: Today the committee will meet Dr. Micheál Collins, assistant professor of social policy in UCD, regarding the scrutiny of tax expenditures but before that, we will go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (21 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: 46. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of national and international events to commemorate the Irish famine in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8534/19]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport Provision (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: I raise this topic as it is one that will have most impact on people living in Dublin in the coming years and decades. There are two aspects and I will speak both to the local and the general elements. If the Minister bears with me, I will begin by speaking specifically about my local area of Dublin South-West, particularly Templeogue. Some people may be aware, as it has been mentioned in...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport Provision (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister for his reply. As he was able to agree with me regarding some aspects of the reply, I am able to agree with him, but the devil is in the detail. I want to put one or two of those details into play. The NTA is engaged in a consultation process but has not yet contacted everybody. A public meeting on Monday night heard that one owner had received no communication from...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Heydon and Eamon Ryan, both of whom are involved in today's meeting of the Joint Committee on Climate Action, which is in the final stages of its work. Today this committee will meet representatives of the Central Bank of Ireland to discuss the bank's January quarterly report, which contains its latest analysis of macroeconomic and fiscal risks....
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile telephones because they can affect the sound quality and the transmission of the meeting. I welcome Dr. Mark Cassidy, who is the Central Bank's director of economics and statistics. He is accompanied by Mr. John Flynn, who is the Central Bank's head of Irish economic analysis; and by Dr. Thomas Conefrey, who is also involved in Irish...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Cassidy. A number of Deputies have indicated. Deputy Lahart is first.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: May I ask Dr. Cassidy to clarify something? My understanding is that there is a complete disproportionality in the figures as to what property tax revenues prior to the boom amount to in terms of overall Government revenue compared with corporation tax revenues at this point.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: Is Dr. Cassidy sure? What was the position prior to 2008?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: Let us look at what corporation tax revenues amount to in their totality rather than the top ten payers and compare. It is important that we try not to compare apples and oranges. The share of corporation tax revenues overall, as a percentage of tax revenue in the budget, is currently-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: What was the overall share of what property tax revenues amounted to prior to 2008?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: I would like to clarify a point. When we speak about household debt are we speaking primarily about mortgage debt?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: On average, 80% of household debt is mortgage debt.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Risks: Central Bank of Ireland (27 Feb 2019)
Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Cassidy.