Results 221-240 of 645 for speaker:Joe Neville

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I have a specific question to ask but I know I will be cut off in six seconds but we need to spend more on infrastructure. We have seen it all. We need to do more and the witness referenced this. How do we interlink the need to spend more on capital infrastructure while maintaining, not hothousing, the current expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: How do you not do that if you need infrastructure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: We are trying to do that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the witnesses for that. I know it was varied but I just wanted to see where it all fit together.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: What is the IFAC view on the potential spending on social welfare? We have not touched on that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: How much of that is long-term unemployment?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: How much of that is transitional? How much of it is actual-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: What is the number for more than 12 months?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Mr. Coffey would say anything we are spending on that is reasonable or understandable.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Questions have been asked on that. We have got full-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: It would trickle up. To change tack entirely, what would IFAC base the budget on considering the fact there are six key contributors to corporation tax? What would the council recommend we do with the intake from that and how would we factor that into our revenue take in the budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: The overall fiscal strategy because we are ultimately putting our eggs in one basket. The issue is sustainability. We are trying to build an economic platform over a number of years but at the same time, one element of it is based on an uncontrollable, to a degree. Mr. Coffey alluded to that himself. He said that it might even grow more, especially in the short term. This year, it will...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: How do we know something is sustainable? It is sustainable until it is gone, potentially. That is obviously what Mr. Coffey is getting at.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Mark Zuckerberg cannot foresee it either. That is the nature of the beast.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: The council is advocating for the rainy day fund to be added to.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: No. I have had two bites of the cherry and if I cannot get it done there, there is a problem.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: We had two Ministers in last week who said exactly this, that we potentially need to save for a rainy day. It is interesting to hear the witness wants to pull the gears back even further. Is that what I heard?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: Okay. What is the unemployment number at the moment?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there has not been an increase in central Government funding for Kildare County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Basic Income for the Arts (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Neville: 423. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to move to a more permanent support system for members of the creative community who were in receipt of the basic income for the arts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35732/25]