Results 11,241-11,260 of 26,053 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Dalton. I have a couple of questions. How many multinational companies were involved in that revision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Less than five?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: In the limited time, how many people are employed and working in the large cases unit in the CSO?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: What are they qualified as?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the witness think it is big enough to deal with-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Dalton believe that this change in 2015 was a direct result of the abolition of the double Irish?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the witness believe this to be a once-off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: For 2015 the CSO produced preliminary figures and the big change came when it produced the final figures. That was on the basis of interaction with multinational companies. The ordinary person looking in will ask why that happened. Did the CSO not consider preparing a publication which stripped out the exceptional items and, almost like a structural deficit, gave a structural GDP-GNP...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it not fair to say that net national product is effectively the GNP figure minus depreciation? Therefore, it is just taking out depreciation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: This means that depreciation must have been a heck of a figure for the CSO to pull it back to where, effectively, the growth rate in net national product was so low.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have limited time and this is extremely important. The bottom line is that, internationally, we are judged like any other country by the markets and the rating agencies based on the metrics of GDP and GNP. We can talk about the broader question but, for the next number of years, which are critical years for us, we are going to be judged on those two key components. If we have another...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: The CSO would have seen the extreme variance between the preliminary figure of 6.7% and the final figure of 26%. As an independent body, knowing how the markets would react, why did the CSO not give the detail that would allow them to strip out the exceptional items of intellectual property and so on? Did the CSO not present two figures, one being the actual figure and the other being the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much of an increase?
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Limerick.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want to raise two items. Along with my colleague, Senator John O'Mahony, I wish to pay sympathy to the family of Anthony Foley. It has been a time of disbelief and shock for people in the Limerick and Clare area. Anthony Foley embodied everything that was good about Irish rugby and particularly Munster rugby. Looking back, he had something in common with Brian Ború. He was very...
- Seanad: Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: At 2.30 p.m. next Tuesday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will make a couple of points on the Bill for Deputy Michael McGrath. Section 1, which deals with definitions, defines the term "lender". Does this definition cover all lenders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are there lenders active in the mortgage market which will not be covered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Michael McGrath referred to market failure. The law of unintended consequences may arise here. The Deputy stated the Central Bank of Ireland would intervene if an entity charges an interest rate that is one third higher than the average variable mortgage interest rate. Could this have the unintended consequence of preventing other mortgage providers from entering the market?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Oct 2016)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Deputy to respond specifically on section 5(d).