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Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No. Anyway, I am running out of time because I have to be somewhere else. I cannot accept that the fundamentals of an economy are good if almost 10,000 people are homeless, and that figure is rising, the waiting lists are getting longer and we are channelling money into the private market that is already overheated. I cannot accept that the fundamentals are right. Mr. Moran can either...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is not being done because-----

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: -----the social housing term is being used to house people in private houses.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No. It is not a policy-----

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Chairman, I ask that Deputy Farrell would allow me deal with this. I am within my time and I will finish within my time. If I have a nine-page document telling me that the economy is fundamentally sound, and if Mr. Moran is sticking to that, then I have to interpret that as meaning that the collateral damage of a good, functioning economy is 10,000 people homeless and a major housing...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Moran is entitled to his opinion. To conclude, as I do not want to upset Deputy Farrell regarding a viewpoint about housing, what confirms my opinion on this is that, as I said, we are playing games with official figures. We are actually breaking the law. Is there a way out of that? Is there a way we are not breaking the law when we are breaking the law?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, the Department complies with the law.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It does not reflect what is going on in the economy, and so it is not accurate. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I think the Deputy flew too low in his questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Does it also capture the constituencies?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We will let Deputy O'Connell finish.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have two quick questions. One concerned a rainy day fund. Did we have a pension reserve fund at some stage? Where is this at?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is one question because I do not want to take up time. The second question concerned our contribution to the EU. That comes under two headings: the European Stability Mechanism and a separate contribution. Did I hear the witnesses say that this contribution is based on GNI?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Can the witnesses clarify that for me? The first question concerned the pensions reserve fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: How much of that is left?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What about the contribution to the EU?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We would love a note on our contribution to the EU, the heading it is under and how it is calculated.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff along with Mr. Derek Moran and all his colleagues from the Department of Finance. They have been very straight with us. We might not have agreed totally but they replied to our questions and we could not ask for more. The next meeting of the committee is on 26 April 2018 when we will discuss chapter 13 of the Comptroller and Auditor...