Results 12,001-12,020 of 26,053 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Let us look at it in a purely logical sense. Where stands this regulation? We can talk about it and have a very interesting discussion, but let us get down to brass tacks. It is a bit like Brexit, we might not like to see it happening but it is going to happen. In Mr. Dalton's considered opinion is this regulation going to come into being?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long will this process take from now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Central Statistics Office had interaction with Ireland's MEPs in this respect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Am I correct to presume that this information is for use by EUROSTAT?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it possible to provide the substance of this data without breaching confidentiality for the companies from whom the CSO receives information? Is it possible to find a mechanism where the CSO can give the EU what it requires but retain the confidentiality for the individual companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: For how many years would the CSO have been in receipt of this information in respect of the compilation of its own data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is a credibility built up between the CSO and individual companies in Ireland. The level of detail required by the EU cannot be provided unless the CSO gives a level of micro detail. Mr. Dalton makes the argument very coherently. It is a long road but the CSO is obviously briefing all the relevant parties. I will take it back to our own party also. I have two questions on the CSO...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: What does the CSO define as full-time and part-time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the CSO break down the numbers of people who are on contract and in full-time employment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Some people would be employed on a contact for 11 months and others are in longer-term employment. Does the CSO have that level of breakdown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the CSO go in to the last year's statistics and see a comparison in the change between part-time and full-time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: The harder question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: If one transfers intellectual properties to Ireland is there a value put on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that a once off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How is that neutral?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: In essence that large spike was contract manufacturing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: There was a change. Prior to that date contract manufacturing was not included in the national accounts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does that continue to be the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that all from the multinational sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much of the GDP growth we are seeing at the moment is attributable to contract manufacturing?