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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I was not going to comment. I find it amusing that people view communications from themselves in one way but view as completely different the communications from others who are engaged in the same career path. If people chose to communicate with an individual through a letter in an envelope or if people chose to communicate by direct mail, it is the same process at heart and we should...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Many people wish for RTÉ to be controlled by the Government but it certainly does not seem to be.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: No apologies have been received. As part of our focus on the reform of the budgetary process, today the select committee will meet officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the 2017 report on public service reform. Before we do so, we will go into private session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I remind members and witnesses to switch off their mobile phones as they cause interference with the broadcasting equipment. I welcome Mr. John Kinnane, principal officer, and his colleagues, Struan Charters and Ms Caroline O'Loughlin. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the Public Service Performance Report 2017, a copy of which has been circulated to members. The report is designed...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Ms O'Loughlin. I will open the discussion to Deputies. The first to indicate was Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I appreciate that the final question falls very much outside the officials' remit for today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The witnesses will be pleased to know I will not ask them to name the trees that were planted or anything like that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: That calls for tree surgeon skills.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The Department wants my system to be used now as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their responses and call Deputy Lisa Chambers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: Witnesses who appear before the committee are invited to attend to discuss a specific brief. I wish to acknowledge that the witnesses present were invited here to discuss the public service performance review and, therefore, that is what they have been briefed on.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is definitely the case that the Deputy got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: As one more Deputy is waiting to speak, I ask Deputy Eamon Ryan to be very brief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: The witnesses are getting off lightly and do not need to respond to Deputy Bailey. That concludes today's session. We are almost bang on time. I thank the witnesses for interacting with the committee. Many very interesting ideas have been raised. We will write to the Department with some of the committee's ideas on the report structure and ways of reporting as an input into developing...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: To my mind, if I followed what just happened there, we have fundamentally thrown away the book on how a Minister makes a statutory instrument. Effectively it will be the Oireachtas that will have to give prior approval to statutory instrument. As such, the system of statutory instruments as we now understand it, with a review capability for the Oireachtas, will be gone. The ability to use...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will not repeat points made by Deputies Mick Wallace and Clare Daly. However, as a committee member, it is appropriate to state we did work on this issue as a committee. There is a process in which committees engage. It is a vital part of drafting and putting together the approach to be taken to legislation. We looked at the issue; brought people in and listened to them and made a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 May 2018)

Colm Brophy: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) to ensure the maintenance of the existing prefabricated structure until the new school building is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18826/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have not received any apologies today. At 3.45 p.m., the committee will meet the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, to discuss the stability programme update. I now propose we go into private session.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Colm Brophy: I welcome the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe. I remind members and witnesses to turn of their mobile phones due to interference. I thank the Minister and his officials for taking the time to make themselves available to our committee. The committee's role is to carry out the ex antescrutiny of budget 2019 and in this context we are meeting to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Colm Brophy: Thank you very much, Minister. In line with what we discussed before the start of the public session, I would like to remind members that I propose to group together two or three questions from each Deputy and ask the Minister to answer them collectively. I ask that members are conscious of time. I call Deputy Michael McGrath.