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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that. I want to tease out some of it. I am glad that the Minister is looking at the dual function aspect. I am very interested to see what the breakdown will be in terms of how much is kept and how much is invested. In that sense, is the Government considering investing in physical assets such as land and infrastructure in the State?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I am very conscious of time. I have several other questions to ask. I am asking about this because of regional disparities and how we will meet the challenge of keeping down inflation and trying to control it while recognising that the west and north-west region has a real problem. It is in the bottom 7% in the EU in terms of infrastructure. There is an issue with competitiveness. How...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: If we have already missed those targets by 24% how will we catch up?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is what Deputy Doherty asked about. It is with regard to the national development plan projections being missed in terms of the allocations and the spending being revised downward.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the Minister think that business as usual in terms of the national development plan and the pace we are going at will address the regional imbalance?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Deputy Canney asked about the western rail corridor. This would be a key infrastructure project in the west. He pointed out it is shovel-ready.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why I want more for the west. I am not being parochial but I am very concerned about the imbalance.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Both Ministers are satisfied that the regional imbalance is being addressed in the way things are being done.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Can we expect the EU infrastructure competitiveness figures that show us in the bottom 7% to change? How soon can we expect it to change?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: With regard to the broadband plan, if the Minister tried to make a mobile phone call or connect to a meeting from Belmullet on a Monday he would find it extremely challenging and extremely unpredictable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not working in the way the Minister might-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I have to correct the Minister. Our opposition was to the manner in which it was done.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: No, it is not.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: We are not against it, no.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: You are being deliberately-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Conlon for attending and for his opening statement, which gives us a lot of detail. The public spending code which became effective in January 2020 is a step forward, as Mr. Conlon said. As he outlined it was the first time there was a systematic approach to project assurance cost, forecast, risk, procurement and the other areas we needed to tackle. Three months ago, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the public spending code be in place until the guidelines are published or have the reforms that have been announced already come into effect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Under the 2019 spending code, the Department was required to undertake a technical review of any major capital projects at three stages, namely, the strategic assessment report, the preliminary business case and the final business case. Can Mr. Conlon confirm that the Department's technical reviews of both the preliminary and final business cases were replaced in 2021 by a private...