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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Does that type of data collection not form part of the integrated European social statistics regulation at this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Pádraig Dalton said it is inconsistent with the beyond gross domestic product initiative, which focuses on the broader quality of life indicators. He also stated there is a concern with the overburden of the SILC, survey on income and living conditions, and the legislative vehicles being proposed by EUROSTAT, which would significantly reduce member states' control over survey costs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I must compliment the CSO on the significant amount of information it compiles and presents on its website. Making it as user-friendly as possible is some achievement. We as legislators rely quite heavily on it to get the correct facts and data. On the revision of the GDP figures of a 26% growth rate this summer, the CSO came under intense criticism, including from Members on the floor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I agree. Mr. Dalton mentioned that GDP and GNP are of limited value in providing insights into the domestic economy. The figure of a 26% rise in GDP, published last July, was an accurate reflection of the data in terms of how we calculate GDP. The reality, however, is that GDP, in so far as how it is measured and how people interpret it, no longer provides us with a proper metric. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The last point the witness makes is quite interesting about it being the first quarter in 2015 when this change took place. That is what the witness mentioned, yet we had the revision quite a bit later. It is interesting that the CSO's antennae was raised. Would it be helpful if there was a requirement on some of these large multinationals to inform the CSO, as opposed to it having to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I looked up the quarter two figures for average incomes on the CSO's website yesterday. Will the delegates explain the reason average incomes have been declining across most heads in quarter two compared with quarter one? This trend fits with a fall in revenue under some income tax heads. Is the CSO picking up any of the reasons for the decline in average incomes across different sectors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: No, I am referring to average wages across various sectors, ranging from industry to the arts, for which quarter two data have been published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am not referring to incomes among staff in the Central Statistics Office but average incomes in the economy. The figures are broken down under various headings, including industry, the public sector, banking and financial services, the arts, the community sector and so forth. The figures show a decline in average incomes in most sectors. While more employment is being created, I wonder...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Compositional changes should not be seen from quarter to quarter, as opposed to from year to year because there has not been a dramatic increase in employment with people coming in on the first metric in terms of the pay scale. The average industrial wage reduced by just over €30 quarter on quarter, which I imagine is not the result of a large number of people being employed over that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: When will the third quarter figures be released?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation from Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30134/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns from rural transport providers and disability rights advocacy groups surrounding the lack of legislation governing the safe transportation of passengers who are wheelchair users; if his attention has further been drawn to the suggestion from such groups that some transport providers are not...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Could somebody please clarify how Fianna Fáil, which says it is the champion of abolishing water charges, has signed up to a budget that does not provide a penny to abolish water charges? Cífimid go bhfuil laghdú de 9% de bhuiséad na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus na n-oileán. Tá dearmad déanta ar an Ghaeilge arís. As bhuiséad de €1.3...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Now we will hear from the Opposition on the budget.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The only thing we have been missing for the past two hours is the two Michaels crossing the floor and giving each other a big hug so much was the love-in between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. We have heard from Fianna Fáil, the only party ever to produce an alternative budget without a costing or a figure for it. To answer the question Deputy Dara Calleary posed, we were the party...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will legislate to ensure that Irish collective asset-management vehicles are used for their purpose of investment by funds rather than as a tool for investment by a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29378/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the progress made on implementing the programme for Government commitment to thoroughly investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks that operate within well-defined regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29592/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (11 Oct 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the reason the VAT receipts to September 2016 are 2.7% or €278 million behind profile; his views on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29858/16]