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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry, but the Deputy must conclude.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Imagine if there were two Richard Boyd Barretts.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am going to ask a few questions if the Deputy does not mind. Following up on that last point, we should certainly be prudent in how we project future rises. We should be prudent in how we make expenditure commitment. I was in business for 20 years before my election to this House. Everybody knows that companies make profits in some years and do not in others. We cannot rely on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Is Dr. Coffey saying that while those three strands that he mentioned come together, that €2 billion or so of it was effectively and realistically just a repositioning of taxation into Ireland by the OECD?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The real question on vulnerability is - and this, the wind at the back thing, is probably referred to often - if there is a second round of changes in eight or ten years time, until we would see how that would play out would we have exactly the same scale of vulnerability for us or possibly against us? We would not know until we saw the outcome.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am afraid I must finish the meeting as we have another committee - of which I am a part - coming into this room in 15 minutes time. We are going to have to draw this to a conclusion. Can Deputy Boyd Barrett fit in a question in under a minute?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has 30 seconds.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I must limit the time available to Dr. Coffey as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Regime: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Coffey for his contribution. As always, it has been a useful and helpful session. All of the members - including those who were here earlier as well - appreciate the time and information that Dr. Coffey has given to the committee. He knows now at least where some of his podcast listeners are located.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Taoiseach. Budgetary oversight is a broad area in itself. I would like to ask the Taoiseach his views on threats to economic prosperity as we face into budget 2019. We are making sustainable progress in respect of economic recovery. Where does the Taoiseach see the main threats as we face into the budget process?

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Committee on Budgetary Oversight is a new committee. I want to acknowledge the work of the parliamentary budget office and particularly salute its ability to supply members with information, and to acknowledge the comprehensive level of information it has given us. There are two issues, the first of which is the timely availability of information from the Department of Finance to aid...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Apologies have been received from Deputies Declan Breathnach and Martin Heydon. The select committee will be holding a number of pre-budget scrutiny sessions to consider revenue raising and tax expenditure options in advance of budget 2019. The issue of the petrol and diesel excise duties gap was considered by the tax strategy group which examined a possible pathway to equalising these...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and delegates to turn off their mobile phones, as interference caused by them affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I welcome Edgar Morgenroth, Professor of Economics at Dublin City University and formerly of the ESRI. I thank him for attending. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give to the select...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Professor Morgenroth for his opening statement. I call Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I call Deputy Broughan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have a number of questions for Professor Morgenroth. One of the most interesting things I took from his briefing and the questions he answered is that we are caught in a bind of our own making. As Deputy Broughan and Deputy Lahart alluded to, as a State we have historically used motor taxation as an effective revenue driver by having it so high at 10% of revenue raised. Our ability to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Was the revenue loss broken down into the number of people paying, for example, lower excise on the cars they purchased, lower excise on the fuel they purchased or lower road tax?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Professor Morgenroth and call Deputy Lahart.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: As no-one else is offering, I shall conclude the meeting. I thank Professor Morgenroth for engaging with us on this matter. I wish to advise members that we will arrange separate meetings with the Irish Road Haulage Association and the electric vehicle owners. This will ensure that we hear all sides of the argument. I thank Professor Morgenroth for his attendance. I propose that we...