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

Colm Brophy: I thank the Deputy we will have to get an answer.

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

Colm Brophy: I will go next to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I remind members that, to try to be fair to everybody, there are approximately five minutes each for questions.

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

Colm Brophy: Does the Deputy have a supplementary question?

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

Colm Brophy: We need a short answer to that.

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

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has just under a minute.

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

Colm Brophy: We are over time for this session and I am conscious of the fact we have two subsequent sessions to come. We will draw this session to a close. I thank all of the Deputies for their questions. I thank Mr. Coffey and all of his colleagues for coming before us. It has been very informative and helpful in terms of the work we are doing in our pre-budget preparations.

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

Colm Brophy: Absolutely. We will go into private session for a few minutes while we have a change over of witnesses before us.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I welcome Professor Alan Barrett of the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, who is joined by his colleagues Professor Kieran McQuinn and Dr. Maev-Ann Wren. I thank them for coming before the committee. The committee is carrying out its pre-budget scrutiny before the summer and we are very interested in hearing from the witnesses in the run up to the national economic dialogue and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: Is Deputy O'Brien happy with that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: ESRI (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. We appreciate the input from them and the opportunity to interact with them as part of our work. I propose that we go into private session to allow a changeover in witnesses.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I welcome Ms Olivia Buckley, communications director, and Ms Anne Gunnell, senior tax policy manager from the Irish Tax Institute. As they will know, having listened to the previous guests, the committee is engaged in its pre-budget scrutiny process. We look forward to availing of this opportunity to discuss the matter with the delegation. I wish to advise that by virtue of section 17(2)(l)...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and for their attendance. It has been a very long day for the committee and all members have received a copy of the witnesses' opening statement, which we appreciate. Due to business being conducted in the Dáil, we are currently somewhat short of members. I call Deputy O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I also have a question for the witnesses, who can then reply to both me and Deputy O'Brien. I ask Ms Gunnell to further tease out the criticisms she highlighted in regard to the KEEP in terms of why she thinks it is not working and what changes are needed to deliver a more satisfactory programme.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. We have had three different groups and they have all given us guidance. Ms Buckley echoed a point made by somebody from IFAC earlier, which was that the original idea of bringing multinationals into Ireland was to create an overspill and grow indigenous companies. We have been successful in the international sector but our indigenous SME...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I endorse my colleagues' points about the CAP. I would like to highlight a couple of aspects of this issue. It is absolutely vital for member states to realise that funding will have to be increased. The Irish Government has been clear on this issue and has led on it. If we want to pursue the 80:20 proposal, the agreement of all member states will be needed. It is really a question of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: I would like to come back in on one matter, on which I did not touch in my earlier contribution, in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy. My major reservation - I disagree with Deputy Éamon Ó Cúiv, for whom I have great respect - is the notion that the European Commission is pushing allowing this to devolve to member states and increasing flexibility, as outlined in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport and Recreational Development (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the publication of the new national sports policy. [25269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (12 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the opening of the 2018 sports capital programme. [25268/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Maria Bailey, Pearse Doherty and Martin Heydon. The committee is due to meet officials from the European Commission to consider the country-specific recommendations, CSRs, for Ireland and the Commission's assessment of the stability programme update. The CSRs were published last week as part of the EU's annual budgetary cycle for the co-ordination...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ireland Country Report and Country-Specific Recommendations: European Commission (30 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as interference caused by them affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. On behalf of the committee, I welcome members of the European Commission to our meeting: Mr. Carlos Martínez Mongay and Ms Polona Gregorin from the Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs, who are accompanied by Mr. Gerry...