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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: Could it be the budget variation from-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: Does it relate to the same issues that have been mentioned here like Covid, Ukrainian costs and so forth?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: We never envisaged that the war was going to be permanent.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: Would you expect to see some tapering away?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: I call Deputy Nash.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: What infrastructural development does Professor McMahon believe is not necessary at this time because of the value issue? Is it water, sewage for housing or what?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: Exactly. It is very easy to say we should not commit to infrastructure development because of cost issues that persist without offering examples that people can relate to. People may ask if IFAC is saying we cannot do infrastructure that is necessary for the development of public services and of the country.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: It is open to that interpretation. That is all I am saying.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: Achieving planning permission is the biggest obstacle. Consider Midleton flood relief scheme: if the barriers to planning were not there, that town would not have been flooded. That is an issue we mentioned previously. There is provision in the budget for extra funding allocation towards the national development plan to meet increased costs associated with construction. Was there not a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: That does not form part of the "gimmickry" IFAC referred to, does it? The increases in construction are abnormal, owing to the situation we find ourselves in in recent years.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: Sorry.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: After Covid, yes. They peaked because of the impact of Covid. As Covid goes into the distance, they fall back. They have fallen and are falling because of steel-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: That is fair enough.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Barry Cowen: A vote has been called, but we have reached a conclusion anyhow. We are quite happy with Professor McMahon's presentation and the responses he has offered. We appreciate that and thank him for it. If there are any further questions, we will contact him.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (17 Jan 2024)
Barry Cowen: With the permission of the members, we will go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)
Barry Cowen: I welcome our guests and thank them for making themselves available, in particular Mr. John Kennedy and Ms Lisa Kearney from the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, and Mr. David Hall from the Irish Mortgage Holders organisation. Before we begin, I will explain some of the limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards reference witnesses...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)
Barry Cowen: I thank Mr. Hall for the summary of his presentation and the clear concise nature of it and his views and opinions pertaining to same. I call on Mr. Kennedy to give his opening statement.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)
Barry Cowen: I ask members to respond in the usual order, as per our own rules and regulations. Deputy Conway-Walsh is first.