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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has a Department's allocation ever reduced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Those were times of economic war. I am trying to make a serious point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of technical expertise, how many qualified accounts are there in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am speaking about the personnel who deal with budgets for Departments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the background of the staff who are analysing the budgets and options?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Watt believe the perception that we get back from other Departments that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is more interested in the micro-spending of Departments than the actual overall macro-spending is unfair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: If a Minister moves expenditure from one voted heading to another in his Department but is not looking for extra funding, will he still require approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What did Mr. Watt call that? Was it "vire"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is to move money across. Does that require approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Seanad: Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019: Second and Subsequent Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State and call Senator Joe O'Reilly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Governor Makhlouf and wish him well in his role. I also wish his colleagues well. I want to touch on a few themes. To go back to the market-based finance sector, Mr. Makhlouf stated that it is dominated by investment funds and money market funds, which account for approximately two thirds of total assets. To what assets is he referring in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What would be the total amount involved? Can Ms Donnery put a value on the two thirds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: So the total amount is €4.4 trillion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Donnery stated that 35% of commercial real estate in Ireland is now controlled by investment funds. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: If we extrapolate out from that, how much of residential real estate do the investment funds control?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The main reason I ask is because we are seeing that at the moment. In the context of the figure for commercial residential real estate, is that dominated properties by Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much of that 35% relates to loans that were sold from the mainstream banks to investment vehicles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has Ms Donnery quantified the loans that have been sold to investment funds from banks? What percentage of the real estate, both residential and commercial, do they control? Ms Donnery is saying that this is separate from the banks that have sold portfolios of loans-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: If she were to quantify the total number of the commercial and residential real estate under the control of investment funds in Ireland, be it where they have bought directly or loan portfolios, what percentage of that do they control? Mr. Sibley made reference to it in terms of the Central Bank having issues with the banks and that they could deal with the loans in different ways from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The matter was raised and I am following up on it.