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- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: Can Mr. Murphy reveal any of this kind of work?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: One of the conclusions in the report with regard to the initial bundle of schools, as Mr. Murphy said, is that while he may have access to it, it is not publicly available - we cannot see it. A criticism made of PPPs across many jurisdictions is that any time a broader group of people seek to appraise how the taxpayer is benefiting from them, we, as public representatives, cannot get that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: I hope that will allow the NDFA to take better advantage of the expertise it has built, as opposed to that of line Departments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: Let me move to the cancellation costs of PPPs. I fully accept that it is not Mr. Murphy's role to decide whether the metro north and DART underground projects are to be deferred. That is a policy decision. With regard to some of the PPPs that have been deferred, the costs already accrued to the taxpayer are very significant. Where the metro north project is concerned, we have acquired...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: Where cancellations or postponements occur, what is the impact on the agency's ability to secure value? I assume the private sector factors in the degree of risk given what has happened. That risk would probably result in a higher price for the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: I am particularly interested in the Grangegorman DIT project. It is fantastic for the education sector. How does Mr. Murphy assess the standing of such projects in the context of the discussion we have just had?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: I hope there is certainty of investment in that regard. It was mentioned in the Budget Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and clearly flagged as something we wanted to make happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: I urge Mr. Murphy to do all he can to ensure the project secures the investment it requires. It is a superb project that will deliver considerable returns, both social and economic, to the taxpayer. I thank Mr. Murphy for answering my questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: Can I direct a specific question to Mr. Burgess on what he just said? He made the point that the shrinking balance sheets of the construction companies seeking to participate in these PPPs is having an impact on the agency's ability to secure investment in the projects in the first place. Can he explain why that is the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: They are not able to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: Yes, I understand. I was not quite sure what the relationship was there and I appreciate Mr. Murphy's explanation.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Is it any coincidence that Ireland is one of the few countries in the world that does not have a non-transaction-based property tax and is also a country with one of the biggest banking collapses, one of the biggest housing collapses and one of the biggest general government budget collapses in history? Not having such a tax in place or a broad enough tax base partly explains why these three...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Exchange of Views with Mr. Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for Europe and Principal Turkish Negotiator for EU Membership. (18 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I extend a warm welcome to our colleagues from Turkey. We are delighted to have them visit the joint committee. They met with the Minister of State for European Affairs earlier and will meet the Tánaiste after this meeting. I hope our visitors' short trip to Ireland is productive and informative. While I have visited Turkey three times, my pronunciation of the names of our visitors...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Exchange of Views with Mr. Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for Europe and Principal Turkish Negotiator for EU Membership. (18 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I shall add a few comments before handing over to the Minister for his response. Like many of my colleagues, I have visited his country on several occasions. Speaking personally, I am very supportive of Turkey's membership of the EU. I would like to see the process in which it is engaged start again, be re-energised and move forward. Turkish membership of the EU would benefit the union,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Exchange of Views with Mr. Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for Europe and Principal Turkish Negotiator for EU Membership. (18 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Minister. I call Deputy Mathews, whom I did not call in the first round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Exchange of Views with Mr. Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for Europe and Principal Turkish Negotiator for EU Membership. (18 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I have a final question on a different theme, although Deputy Mathews touched upon it. To what extent has the economic crisis in Europe influenced the views of Turkish citizens regarding membership of the European Union? When we attend COSAC meetings, the Minister's colleagues from the Turkish Parliament often make the point that the Turkish economy already meets the criteria for the fiscal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Exchange of Views with Mr. Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for Europe and Principal Turkish Negotiator for EU Membership. (18 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Minister for his contribution and members for their questions. I hope the remainder of the Minister's trip goes well, including his meeting this afternoon with the Tánaiste.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Exchange of Views with Mr. Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for Europe and Principal Turkish Negotiator for EU Membership. (18 Dec 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I am sure many members would be interested in doing so. I again thank Mr. Bagis for attending. It has been a frank meeting and an interesting exchange of views. I hope the remainder of his trip goes well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) Paschal Donohoe: The witnesses are all welcome here today. My view on what happened in Uganda and our overseas aid programme was fundamentally changed by going to Malawi during the summer. I wish to underscore heavily the comments Deputy Deasy ended with. I spent one week at the end of August with Trócaire. It was an interesting experience to go with an NGO as opposed to going as part of an official...