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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Colm Brophy: Thank you. We could discuss this for a very long time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Colm Brophy: We could have an entire session on it alone but I am conscious of time. I acknowledge the time the Director General has given to our committee today to answer all the questions. I thank his colleagues also for coming in to us. This almost annual engagement with our committee is always incredibly welcome. It is very informative for us as a committee. I hope the witnesses got a lot out of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (2 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the recruitment campaigns which will be run by the Public Appointments Service between 2 April 2019 to 31 December 2019; the nature of the appointments; the number of positions likely to be made available in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15035/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (3 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: 84. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of his plans in respect of the drawing up of a national social enterprise policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15439/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Scheme to Support National Organisations (3 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: 59. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the scheme to support national organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15440/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the support being provided to local authorities under the community strand of the commemorative programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16665/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Today the select committee will meet representatives of the Economic and Social Research Institute to consider its report entitled, Ireland and Brexit. I propose that we first go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: ESRI Report on Ireland and Brexit: Discussion (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and delegates to turn off their mobile phones as interference caused by them affects the transmission of the proceedings. From the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, I welcome Dr. Adele Bergin, senior research officer, and her colleague, Dr. Kieran McQuinn, research professor. I gather Dr. Martina Lawless who co-authored the research is, unfortunately, unable to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: ESRI Report on Ireland and Brexit: Discussion (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Bergin for her opening remarks. I have a number of members who have indicated they wish to speak so in the order in which members have indicated I call Deputy Lisa Chambers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: ESRI Report on Ireland and Brexit: Discussion (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I should have said at the very start before I brought the Deputy in that our normal rules are to allow approximately five minutes per member for questioning and then a second round should it be required.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: ESRI Report on Ireland and Brexit: Discussion (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: As there are no further Deputies offering, on behalf of the committee I thank the witnesses for their attendance here today. We very much appreciated the opportunity to go through the ESRI publication with them. Brexit is something that will be with us no doubt for a long time to come, regardless of the outcome of what happens in the next few days. I thank Dr. Adele Bergin and Dr. Kieran...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I welcome the range of increased funding contained in what we have been discussing this morning. It is very welcome across the range of areas the Minister spoke about. I want to specifically ask him about an issue I have raised previously, namely, the funding for Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS. I appreciate the Minister made some comments on that earlier. I have to be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I welcome the Minister's comments. We had an opportunity to engage with INIS as a committee and I hope now we will start to see the results come through because some of the cases I deal with as a result of my constituents contacting me are unacceptable in terms of the delays they have been put through. That is not because of a particularly difficult or problematic issue. These are ordinary...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Breathnach, Lisa Chambers and Pearse Doherty.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Burton has indicated she will be absent for the same reason.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. We are meeting the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, to scrutinise the draft stability programme update, SPU, which the Minister published on Tuesday, 16 April. The stability programme is an important pre-budget update on the Government's budgetary and fiscal planning...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister. As usual, we will have an initial round of five minutes followed by a further round of questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Boyd Barrett is next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I am conscious that the Minister will return about this in a month to address it extensively. We can continue then. I have one or two issues to raise myself. As Chairman, it would be remiss of me not to make the point which Deputy Lahart has alluded to. We feel that as a committee that when we make a request of officials from the Minister's Department, they should attend, particularly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister. We will conclude shortly. I call Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.