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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are further amalgamations or mergers proposed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Farrell anticipate mergers will continue or that they will conclude?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What would be the critical mass for the credit union movement to be a sustainable model? Would it be 200 or 150?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the credit union movement considered putting a proposal to the Department of Finance and the Central Bank on a specific public banking hybrid model? I am not necessarily referring to the Sparkasse model which is the one everyone quotes. I am more interested in the services it provides as distinct from its structure. Credit unions continue to be separate independent entities but have an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the credit union movement considered-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I agree with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it the case that the credit unions are looking at evolving the current system to a point where it is providing services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would it assist the credit union movement if it put forward a proposal that there is a need for certain changes to ensure enhanced services to fill the public banking gap? These changes could be around the bond, for example. The problem is that this issue has been over and back. What changes does the credit union movement require to enable it to provide a range of modern financial services...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: With all due respect, we cannot expect the credit union movement to step into that space while tying its hands behind its back in terms of the services it can provide. That is where the committee steps in. Mr. Molan encapsulates what I am about. I am all about outcomes. I have dealt with the credit union movement both as a member and an accountant. I want it to step into that space....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank all of the members and witnesses for their attendance. It has been a long but productive day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister and his colleagues. I note the impact that a hard Brexit would have and I know that further financial work is being done by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and the Department. The Minister says that tax revenues would be lower and expenditure would rise and he says he is looking at the potential that the growth rates in 2019 could go to 2.7% from an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are preliminary discussions around the potential of a hard Brexit and the contingencies being put in place around possible supports to aid export-oriented industries such as agriculture and manufacturing already under way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister referred to financial services firms having contingency plans in place by March 2019. What level of engagement has there been between his Department, the Central Bank and these firms? When does he anticipate that they will come back to the Department if they have such contingency plans in place? Our financial services sector is important to us, especially if there is a hard Brexit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will move on to the children's hospital. Everyone in Ireland thinks that we need to have the children's hospital. Sight of that may have been lost. People are right to question the sheer scale of the spending. What work has the Minister been able to do in his Department to quantify what he expects the final cost of the children's hospital to be? What cost has been incurred on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Minister know what work has been completed? Is the underground work nearly complete? Has that been brought to the Minister's attention?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Minister satisfied with his Department's engagement with the hospital group, the Department of Health and the HSE? What is his view on managing the project in the future from his perspective in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister spoke about contingencies. The expected cost is €1.4 billion. Has the board come back to outline the likelihood of any specific contingency happening? An issue with the project from a public perspective, which we are being asked about, is how much it will cost. When will we reach the point where we know definitively what the final cost of the project will be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are all aspects of the tendering process concluded or is anything still outstanding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it correct that one particular contractor is involved in the revised tenders?