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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: I will let the Minister in briefly to finish and then I will explain again how this questioning works.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: I want to make it absolutely clear to all Deputies that they will have an opportunity to come back in again after we have completed a round of questioning. All they have to do is wait and then they can come back in and follow up with the Minister as much as they like. I call Deputy Cowen.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank Deputy Cowen. I call Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy is out of time. I have given him extra leeway but I must let the Minister back in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: The meeting is supposed to conclude in three minutes' time. However, I had indicated earlier to Deputy Lisa Chambers that she could come back in with a question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: I know we are over time but I ask the Minister to bear with me as I have a couple of questions I want to ask him about the LPT. One of them relates to the committee's work on LPT. There is widespread discussion about the yield and a constant discussion about property prices increasing. What work has been done in terms of the yield and in looking at the scenarios relating to a property...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: What about the other point about considering the models for a property price decrease?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister on behalf of the committee for the time he and his officials have given us today. We very much appreciate that. It has been a long sitting day for the committee.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Bailey, Brendan Smith and Michael Healy-Rae. In the usual reminder to members on mobile phones, I ask that members switch them off or set them to aeroplane mode in order to avoid interference. I welcome the Taoiseach for this second engagement with the Working Group of Committee Chairmen. We are delighted to have him here again. The committees...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Taoiseach. Before we move on to the next part of the meeting, I will do a quick recap on the procedures that have been agreed. We will take questions from chairpersons in groups of three. That will operate under the D'Hondt model whereby they will each have one minute to ask a question and the Taoiseach will have approximately four minutes in which to reply. There will be a...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: That completes the first group of questions.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Taoiseach. We now come to the follow-up round of questions. Again, members have one minute.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: We are now going to proceed to our next group. That group will consist of Deputies Casey, O'Loughlin and Deering. Deputy Casey is first.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Taoiseach. Deputy Casey wishes to ask a second question.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry, Deputy, but we are over time.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Deputy, but I must be fair. I call Deputy Deering.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: We are going to move to our next group, which comprises Deputies Butler, O'Dowd and Curran. We will start with Deputy Butler.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: The Committee on Procedure has established a working group on this. It will be responding to that.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Colm Brophy: Absolutely. A briefing will be prepared for just after the break. It will be available to the Chairmen in regard to the ruling. The working group has been established to allow for input on it.