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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is very good, Deputy, but we are-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: To be fair to the Deputy, he has two minutes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Members should speak through the Chair.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Please.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy is over the two minutes. To be fair he made his point well but I do not think there was a primary question in it. If the witnesses want to come back very briefly on either of the Deputies' points, we have a minute or two to allow it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I appreciate that because there is no point in repeating the answer. Does anybody else want to come in?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Does Mr. McDonnell have anything very brief on this?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank everyone who has come before the committee today and I thank the Deputies for their questions. I acknowledge the unfortunate constraints of time and I hope the witnesses appreciate I was not trying to shorten anybody but to let everybody have as much of an exchange as possible. I thank the witnesses for coming in. We will have a second session so we will go into private session for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Healy and call Dr. Shana Cohen.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Ms Cohen. I will now open the discussion to questions from the committee. Deputy Boyd Barrett was the first member to indicate.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: We are being advised by almost every second group which attends the committee about what they consider is the precarious nature of the current receipts from corporation taxes and the necessity not to use any windfall expenditure, etc. How does Dr. Healy propose to square that circle where, as he alluded to himself, a disproportionate amount of corporation tax comes from a small base of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: However, the corporation could be possibly employing thousands of people.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will not respond to all the points the witnesses have made. I would have some differences of opinion on several but I want to state clearly we are not a tax haven, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and every other examination. We have a very transparent standard. If we had more time we could have a longer argument about the effective rate of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Many witnesses come in and provide advice. I appreciate that.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: The lads have not gone away.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is a case of crocodile tears.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Sinn Féin is much closer to Deputy O'Callaghan.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I echo what the Minister has said in calling for support for the 1998 and 2009 Acts. It is very important that everyone in this House support them. I call in particular on political parties that have not done so in the past to consider that this is a time to choose. If a party sets itself up as a modern political party and as expert in so many ways on our Judiciary, our policing and our...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Barry Cowen and Pearse Doherty. In our first session we will meet representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council to discuss its presentation on the June 2018 fiscal assessment report. In the second session we will hear representatives of the Economic and Social Research Institute speak about its budget priorities. In our final session...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report June 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: We are now in public session. Interference from mobile phones affects sound quality, so I ask that they be switched off or to aeroplane mode. I welcome Mr. Seamus Coffey, chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. He is accompanied by Mr. Michael Tutty, Dr. Martina Lawless, Dr. Íde Kearney, Mr. Sebastian Barnes and Mr. Eddie Casey. I thank the witnesses for making themselves...