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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: I must ask the witnesses to be very brief in their answers as three other Deputies are waiting to come in and I am conscious of our time overall.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: It was a rather long question in the end.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: I ask speakers to keep their replies quite brief. The Dundalk budget select committee is currently sitting.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: I am conscious of time for everybody involved. It is 6.30 p.m.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: We are a budgetary oversight committee, not an environment committee so I will bring us back to-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: Deputy Cowen has indicated that he has a brief question and I ask the witnesses to keep their replies equally brief.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Doheny. With that reply, I will draw our session here to a conclusion. I thank everyone for attending. There was a good exchange with the members and we covered a lot of ground. I note again the delay at the start but we thank the witnesses for bearing with us.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: As we have a quorum, we will commence the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I have received apologies from Deputies Michael McGrath and Lahart. At approximately 3.30 p.m., the committee will engage with researchers from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, to consider the findings of its gender impact report. Before that, I propose that we go into private...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: The purpose of today's public session is to receive an update from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, on its gender budgeting report due to be published shortly. Our committee produced a report on gender budgeting this year and the ESRI worked with the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, on this project. It is an important practical step in progressing gender budgeting. Before...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Keane for an interesting presentation feeding off the opening statement paper which was submitted to the committee. I am sure members want to ask questions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: We are on gender budgeting so we will come back to this-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: That is slightly different from-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: It is. I wish to return to the issue we are here to examine. If there was a budget presentation as we historically know it and then a budget presentation that was primarily gender-proofed, can our guests outline briefly how we would see the differences? What would we be looking out for if a gender-proofed budget was introduced this year as distinct from the budgets we have seen in the past?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: Is the ESRI considering carrying out some analysis of the forthcoming budget on a gender basis immediately after it is introduced? Does it hope to be able to use its model and produce a report based on that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)
Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Keane and Mr. Roantree very much for all their answers and I thank the members who are still present. We appreciated the impact of the witnesses' work on the work of the committee, an impact which is important to recognise, and on the work of the Parliamentary Budget Office. It has been a very worthwhile experience. With that, I thank everyone for attending. As there is no...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (11 Jul 2018)
Colm Brophy: We have a quorum and I will commence the meeting in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy Lisa Chambers. The select committee will meet the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, to discuss the summer economic statement at 5.30 p.m. Before we do so, I propose that we go into private session to deal with committee business.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Colm Brophy: I remind members and delegates to turn off their mobile phones as interference from them affects the transmission of the proceedings. I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, who is accompanied by Mr. John Kinnane, Mr. Brendan O'Leary, Mr. Stephen McDonagh and Fearghal Ó Brolcháin. I thank them for making themselves available to the select committee. They had...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Colm Brophy: A number of members have indicated. The first to indicate was Deputy Michael McGrath.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Colm Brophy: I meant to say before Deputy Michael McGrath started that a very large number of Deputies had offered. To allow for the time constraints on us, I ask Deputies to try to have an initial round of questions with five minutes per Deputy. They can come back in if we have more time. That should take us up until about 7 p.m.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Colm Brophy: You have about a minute, Deputy.