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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Perhaps the real question relates to whether we are still achieving the 23%. I am concerned with regard to what happens when PPPs are put in place in other jurisdictions. For example, the previous Labour Government in the United Kingdom put in place a large number of private finance initiatives. The benefit of this for many countries is that they can build a great many things but the cost...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have a view in respect of the point I am making? Ms Tallon indicated that her Department focuses on what happens when the project is built and provides a template in that regard. Thereafter, it is the responsibility of the contracting body to ensure the project is working in the way that was originally envisaged. The latter represents a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Does the Department play a role in that phase?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I appreciate that the Department cannot micro-manage what is going on in every agency, but does it know if that is happening? Does it check if the work is being done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: And they come in on time as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I will follow that up with the people at next week's committee hearing because it is an important area.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I will leave it at that. I was not aware of the point Mr. McCarthy just made. The core point I have been trying to tease out is that I have no doubt the value-for-money work takes place at the capital part of a project. I am sure that is the case and that it is rigorous and well done. When the project has been up and running for a number of years at what point does a similar process kick...

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (7 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: As a man, speaking in a male-dominated Parliament and a room in which not a single woman is present, I find commenting on and adjudicating the most sensitive and difficult decision that any woman could make to be a difficult experience. Any difficulty I may experience would be meagre in comparison with the emotions any woman who has attempted to reconcile her desire for life and that of her...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been taken by his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to sell 1,100 acres of forestry land in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55277/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been taken by his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to sell 1,100 acres of forestry land in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55277/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been taken by his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to sell 1,100 acres of forestry land in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55277/12]

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The Sinn Féin general election manifesto simply states that Sinn Féin is committed to no further drawing down of the EU-IMF loan. It goes on to say that for the reminder of 2011 resources from the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Exchequer funding from the Central Bank should be used to run the State. This is very simple. Having campaigned on a platform of telling the troika to...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Their performance in the 31st Dáil has been an exercise in studied and deliberate cynicism. Their agenda is simple: to replace another party as Leader of the Opposition.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Their view is that nothing can be allowed to get in the way of this, not even the truth. The truth is perfectly simple: our country, due to the efforts of our people, is slowly but steadily fighting our way out of bankruptcy. The people are faced with choices that are neither of their making nor of the making of this Government. The truth is that Sinn Féin has taken the mantle of...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Their explanation of where this money is coming from shows the real depths of their cynicism. As the Government works to stabilise our banks and get deposits back in order that they can be lent out to Irish businesses and families, Sinn Féin wants to impose a wealth tax on them. Such a wealth tax would get the same deposits to move out of the country, further weakening the banks and...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: We need not pore over the leaflets printed by Deputy Ó Snodaigh to see what Sinn Féin does in Ireland, because its role in the Northern Ireland Assembly already makes it clear. It is implementing a property tax up there while it opposes one here.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I was aware that Sinn Féin was advocating a two-state solution for the Middle East but I did not realise it was advocating the same solution for our economic crisis here. It is a case of partition when it suits Sinn Féin.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Due to the solidarity and support of the people, the Government has succeeded in creating an environment in which growth can return. There are some signs of stability, lower borrowing and jobs being created after years of job losses.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: As Sinn Féin is consumed by getting its numbers up in the opinion polls, we are driven by getting the numbers down on the live register and down on our monthly borrowing needs.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: The Sinn Féin finance spokesperson said: "[I]t is my firm belief that in the second half of 2013 Ireland will be unable to return to the markets and will need additional financial intervention by the EU and IMF." We are back in the markets now. This is typical of the gospel of despair and the Sinn Féin agenda of anger. It is an indictment of all it stands for that when our...